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Wenda Gu

Wenda Gu (Born 1955) is active/lives in New York / China.  Wenda Gu is known for Sculpture-installation, conceptual.

Known as the "hair artist," Wenda Gu has that association because human hair is his signature material in his installation sculpture and because of his trademark hairstyle that is a shaved crown and a thick black mane that hangs below his waist. In fact, hair is the fiber weaving together his ambitious series "United Nations--an Ongoing Global Art Project for the 21st Century," begun in 1993.

Gu is credited as being the father of conceptual Chinese ink painting, a genre that remained static for centuries. What he did was to use these stylized characters loaded with symbolism as a referent but create his own characters full of intriguing design but devoid of meaning.

He was born in Shanghai, China and is one of the many emerging Asian artists working in the United States. In China, his parents were both punished during the Cultural Revolution for their work in theater and film, and he was taught the classics at home by his paternal grandfather. He graduated from the Shan   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3681 characters.]  Artist bio

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