Cai Guo Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang’s explosive new retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao features flying wolves, floating cars, and plenty of fireworks. VIEW OUR GALLERY

Photo by Tatsumi Masatoschi, courtesy Cai Studio

Commissioned by Zacheta National Gallery of Art
Photo by Tatsumi Masatoschi, courtesy Cai Studio

Comisioned by Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporany Art
Photo by Tsukuru Asada, courtesy Cai Studio

Commissioned by The International Olympic Committee and The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad
Photo bu Wang Xiaoxi, courtesy Cai Studio

Deutsche Bank Collection, Commissioned by Deutsche Bank AG
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Life-size sculptures created on site by guest artisan sculptors; clay, wire and wood armatures, and other props and tools for sculpture, photocopies of documents and photographs related to Rent Collection Courtyard (dated 1965)
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Realized at Old Turia Riverbed Park, between Royal Bridge and Trinidad Bridge, Valencia, May 22, 2005, 12:05 p.m., approximately 1 minute
Juan Garcàa Rosell

Seattle Art Museum, Gift of Robert M. Arnold, in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum, 2006
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
Photo by André Morin

Photo by Hiro Ihara, courtesy Cai Studio

Photo courtesy Cai Studio

Installation view at Guggenheim Bilbao Museum, 2009
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Erika Barahona-Ede

Erika Barahona-Ede

Cai Guo-Qiang in front of his gunpowder drawing Crocodile and Sun at Fireworks by Grucci, Brookhaven, New York, 2007
Photo Ma Da, courtesy Cai Studio
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