TSENG KWONG CHI: PERFORMING FOR THE CAMERA | APAG – American Photography Archives Group

Date: Jan 21, 2016 - May 22, 2016

TSENG KWONG CHI: PERFORMING FOR THE CAMERA

JANUARY 21 – MAY 22, 2016
Reception with Muna Tseng: Tuesday, January 26, 5:00-7:30pm

AIDEKMAN ARTS CENTER, TUFTS UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
40 TALBOT AVE, MEDFORD, MA 02155

After successful runs at the Chrysler Museum of Art and the Grey Art Gallery NYU, we are thrilled that Tseng Kwong Chi: Performing for the Camera continues it’s US tour to Boston.

It is the first major solo museum exhibition of works by Tseng Kwong Chi (1950–1990), a prolific artist and key documentarian of Manhattan’s downtown scene in the 1980s. Comprising over 80 images, it is the first large-scale retropective to look in depth at Tseng’s prolific body of work and consider it in various political, social, and cultural contexts. The exhibition features cutting-edge examples from Tseng’s archive that have rarely been shown: colorful Manhattan downtown and club scenes, vintage prints from his illustrious Expeditionary Self-portrait series, snapshots of artists and celebrities.

The show will travel to the Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art in Illinois starting September 17-December 11, 2016.

Organized by the Chrysler Museum of Art and the Grey Art Gallery, NYU, the exhibition is accompanied by an illustrated catalogue. The monograph will be available at the show, or contact the Estateto order.

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TSENG KWONG CHI: AMBIGUOUS AMBASSADOR 1979-1989
JANUARY 8 – FEBRUARY 27, 2016
Reception with Muna Tseng: Wednesday, January 27, 5:30 -7:30pm

CARROLL AND SONS GALLERY
450 HARRISON AVENUE, BOSTON, MA 02118

Tseng Kwong Chi: Ambiguous Ambassador 1979-1989 features a diverse selection of work, ranging from Tseng’s iconic silver gelatin self-portraits, to his good friend Keith Haring’s subway drawings, the fabrication of Pop Shop Toyko, and the breathtaking dancer Bill T Jones’ painted body. The show demonstrates Tseng’s pictoral meditations on intersections of culture, tourism and nature and dististinguishes his singularity as both an observer and participant in the 1980’s New York Art scene.

Be sure to stay tuned for news and more upcoming shows:

(Counter)Public Art, Intervention, & Performance in Lower Manhattan from 1978-1993,
Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, December 2015 – February 2016

Ordinary Pictures
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, February 27 – October 9, 2016

Keith Haring, The Political Line,

Kunsthal Rotterdam, Holland, September 20 – February 7, 2016

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