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Tsai Wen-Ying

蔡文颖

Tsai Wen-Ying 蔡文颖 - portrait - chinesenewart

Tsai Wen-Ying 蔡文颖 pinying Cai Wenying

Member of the Centre for Advanced Visual studies at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology

1928

Tsai Wen-Ying 蔡文颖 ( 1928-2013 ) was born on October, in Amoy, Fujian

Province China.

1939

He moved to Shanghai..

1950

He emigrated to the United States where he continued his sudies in mechanical

engineering.

He graduated with a Bachelor's degree, from the University of Michigan.

1953

He worked as an architectural engineer in New York.

1956

While pursuing his professional career, he studied at the Art Students League

of New York.

1962

He became an American citizen.

1963

After wining the John Hay Whitney Fellowship for Painting, he decided

to devote full-time to Art.

He sought to integrate his scientific knowledge and technological, to his

artistic approach.

He created Multi-kinetic Wall ( 1965 ) and Cybernetic Sculpture ( 1966 ) which

made him famous.

He participated in numerous collective exhibitions devoted to kineticism

in London and in New York.

1968

He won the second prize Experiment in Art and Technology, at the Modern

Art Museum of New York .

1971

He moved to Paris for ten years and settled permanently in New York.

2013

He died on January 2 in Manhattan, at the age of 84.

The Tsai Art and Science Foundation was created in New York, to pursue

the visiony of cybernetic artist.

Danièle Sicard

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	Collections selection
Canada	Ontario Sciences	Toronto
Germany	Kaiser Wilhem Museum	Krefeld
United Kingdom	Tate Gallery	London
United States	Addison Galleryof American Art	Andober Massachusssetts
United States	Technology Institute	Cambridge Massachusssetts
United States	Albright-Knox Art Gallery	New York
United States	Whithey Museum of American Art	New York

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Solo exhibitions selection

1961

Ruth Sherman Gallery New York United States

1964

Amel Gallery New York United States

1965

Amel Gallery New York United States

1968

Howard Wise Gallery New York United States

1970

Alpha Gallery Boston United States

1970

Haus Lange Museum Krefeld Germany

1971

Technology Institute Cambridge United Kingdom

1971

Ontario Science Center Toronto

1971

Françoise Mayer Gallery Brussels Belgium

1972

Galerie Denise Renée Paris France

1979

Hong Kong Art Museum Hong Kong China

1983

Denise Renée Gallery Paris France

1983

Modern Art Museum Paris France

Collective exhibitions sslection

1965

The Responsive eyes Modern Art Museum New York United States

1965

Cybernetic Serendipity Contemporary Art Institute London United Kingdom

1965

The Machine as seen as the end of the Mechnaical Age Modern Art Museum New York

United States

1965

Cybernetic Serendipity Corcoran Gallery Washington United States

1965

Howard Lipman Collection Whitney Museum New York United States

1965

3 ème Salon des galeries pilotes Modern Art Museum Paris France

1965

Electra Modern Art Museum Paris France

1965

Energetic Art Malmaison Cannes France

1965

International Biennial Nagoya Japan

1965

Triennial Osaka Japan

1965

EXPO 2010 SHANGHAI Shanghai Art Museum Shanghai China

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Tsai Art and Science Foundation http://tsaifoundation.org/art

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Tsai Wen-Ying 蔡文颖

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	tsai	Galerie Denise René
	Cibernetic Sculpture of Tsai : Jonathan Benthall	Paris
	extracted from Cimaise N° 162/163
	Special issue : Cinétisme
	in french in english
	catalogue 27 cm x 21 cm





	tsai
	sculptures cybernétiques
	environnement
	introduction : Gyorgy Kepes
	Cybernetic Sculpture of Tsai : Jonathan Benthall
	Denise René Gallery Paris 06 1972
	Denise René Gallery New York 10 1972
	in french in english
	28 p

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