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David Diao
David Diao (Chengdu, Sichuan, China 1943) lives and works in New York, USA.
Diao’s work has been the subject of major international exhibitions, most recently at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. His work is part of the collections of Museum of Modern Art and Brooklyn Museum, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C among many others.
David Diao, installation view Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China, 2015
David Diao.
David Diao (1943, China) is one of the key figures in the recent history of conceptual painting. Entering the New York art world in the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, Diao first engaged in the complex position of painting in the aftermath of the Abstract Expressionists and the formalist critical debates that followed them, successfully pushing painting into conceptual territory while allowing him to deal with aesthetics, history as well as personal narrative in his painting. Diao’s unique aesthetic sensibility has undergirded a long career that is now attracting renewed interest from major institutions, critics, and curators around the world.
David Diao, My Favorite Image of Her, 2016. Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 254 × 106.5 cm (100 × 42 in) 2 panels
David Diao, Best Western, 2016. Acrylic and vinyl on canvas, 48 x 32 in
David Diao, Neighbor 1950-1955, 2016. Acrylic and silkscreen on canvas, 36 x 78 in
David Diao, American Dream in HongKong, 2016. Acrylic and collage on canvas, 68 x 88 in
David Diao, Tricolor 4, 2019. Acrylic on canvas, 137.5 × 169 cm (54 × 66 in)
