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Paul Chan (born April 12, 1973 in Hong Kong) is an American artist, writer and publisher. His single channel videos, projections, animations and multimedia projects are influenced by outsider artists, playwrights, and philosophers such as Henry Darger, Samuel Beckett, Theodor W. Adorno, and Marquis de Sade.
Nov 3, 2016 · American, born. Hong Kong 1973. Works. Exhibitions. Publication. Read an interview with Paul Chan at BOMB.
Paul Chan Mo-po GBM GBS MH JP ( Chinese: 陳茂波; born 18 March 1955) is the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong and former Secretary for Development of Hong Kong Special Administrative Region. He was a member of the Legislative Council of Hong Kong ( Accountancy functional constituency ).
A nightmare of killing and natural catastrophe ensues until a Richter-like smear of effulgent color engulfs the screen and a new race of naked girls emerges to mourn the carnage and run through a peaceful land once more.
Jul 1, 2024 · Paul Chan (born April 12, 1973, Hong Kong) is a Hong Kong-born American artist and activist whose informed interrogative approach to material, imagery, and concept is central to all his endeavours, which include documentary videos, animations, book publishing, and font design.
Oct 19, 2022 · The title of a forthcoming exhibition at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, “Paul Chan: Breathers,” has at least several meanings, reflecting the artist’s talent for wry understatement.
Apr 3, 2021 · Apr 3, 2021–Aug 1, 2022. 1st Light is the first in a series of seven animations titled The 7 Lights (2005–7), in which Paul Chan addresses themes of faith, technology, and politics. Described by the artist as “hallucinating the seven days of creation from dawn to dusk,” the cycle was created using obsolete computer-animation technology ...
Hong Kong artist Paul Chan categorically rejects the labelling of his art as political, but it is hard to separate it from his deep commitment as an activist. This is shown by his many works focusing on the Bush years and the horrors of the war in Iraq, or those based on the utopian socialist theories of Charles Fourier.
Jan 6, 2023 · Paul Chan calls them “Breathers,” and they have played a central role in the artist’s practice since he debuted his own uncanny renditions of the dancers in 2017 at Greene Naftali gallery in New York. The swaying figures also symbolize the artist’s own winding approach to his practice, and the need, sometimes, to take a breather.
Apr 9, 2015 · 9 April 2015. There is so little on view in Paul Chan’s Hugo Boss Prize exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum in New York that it feels more like a gallery show than a museum exhibition—but...
