Walsh Gallery

Tseng Kwong Chi

Born in Hong Kong, 1950; died New York, 1990.

Projected Solo Exhibitions

2005
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi: Ambiguous Ambassador", Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi: Ambiguous Ambassador", Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong

Solo Exhibitions

2008
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi", Heather James Fine Art Gallery, Palm Springs
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi: Self-Portraits 1979-1989," Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi: Self-Portraits 1979-1989," Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
2007
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi: Ambiguous Ambassador," Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston
2003
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi: East Meets West", Lee Ka-Sing Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2002
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi: Ambiguous Ambassador", Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi: A Retrospective " Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA (catalogue)
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi," SK Josefsberg Studio, Portland, OR
  • "In America: Vintage Prints, 1979-1987," Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
2001
  • "Costumes at the Met," Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2000
  • "East Meets West," Carol Ehlers, Chicago, IL
1999
  • -01 "Tseng Kwong Chi: Citizen of the World," organized by the Center for Creative Photography, traveling exhibition continues on to Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, KS; Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, FL; J. Wayne Stark University Center Galleries, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX
1998
  • -99 "Tseng Kwong Chi: The Expedition," Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario, Canada
1997
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi, Citizen of the World," Center for Creative Photography,The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  • "The Gang's All Here: New York in the Eighties," Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
  • "East Meets West: The Expeditionary Series," Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • "East Meets West: The Expeditionary Series," Robert Klein Gallery, Boston, MA
  • "East Meets West: The Expeditionary Series," Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA
1996
  • "East Meets West: The Expeditionary Series," Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
1993
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi: Polaroids, Portraits, Expeditions," curated by Andrew Perchuk, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
1992
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi: The Expeditionary Works," curated by Jean Caslin and Bill Shackelford, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX (catalogue)
1989
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi," BASE, Paris, France
1987
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi," Rodman Center for the Arts, Ripon College,Ripon, WI
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi: Canadian Rockies Series," Gallery Casa Toledo Oosterom, New York, NY
1986
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi: N.A.S.A. Series," Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY
1984
  • "Art in Transit," a collaboration with Keith Haring, Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY
  • "East Meets West: American Monuments Series," C.E.P.A Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  • "East Meets West: New Photographs," Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY
1983
  • "East Meets West," Bonlow Gallery, New York, NY
  • "East Meets West: American Series," Beulah Land, NY
1981
  • "East Meets West," Mudd Club, New York, NY

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006
  • "The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974 - 84," curated by Carlo McCormick, NYU Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY
2005-06
  • "Global Tour Project," curated by Amiel Grumberg, Amsterdam; Dubrovnick; and Tehran
2005
  • Jean-Michel Basquiat retrospective, Brooklyn Museum, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2004-05
  • "East Village USA," curated by Dan Cameron, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
  • "Warhol Fashion," Le Mostre della Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
2004
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi: Ambiguous Ambassador", Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai Biennele, China
  • "Performance and Photography", Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
2003-04
  • "Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self," curated by Coco Fusco and Brian Wallis, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2003
  • "Road Show," curator Cindy Rucker, Margaret Thatcher Projects, New York, NY
  • "Me, Myself and I: Looking at Portraiture," CRG Gallery, New York, NY
  • "The Bold 1980's: A Collector's Vision," Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
  • "Commodification of Buddhism," The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
2002-04
  • "Portrait of the Art World: A Century of ARTnews Photographs," curated by William Stapp, The New York Historical Society,New York, NY; National Portrait Gallery at the S. Dillon Ripley Center, International Gallery,Washington, DC; Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL; Museum of New Mexico, Museum of FineArts, Santa Fe, NM (catalogue)
2002-03
  • "Who? Me? Role Play in Self-Portrait Photography," Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
  • "New York apr`es New York," Mus'ee de l'Elys'ee, Lausanne, Switzerland; Caves de la Maison de Courten `a Sierre, Sierre, Switzerland
2002
  • "Archi-Tourism," Temple Hoyne Buell Center of American Architecture, Columbia University, New York, NY
  • "Where is Elvis?" Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York, NY
  • "Uniforms in Fact and Fantasy," American Textile History Museum, Lowell, MA
  • "Manicurated: Conversations with the Permanent Collection, A Project with Judi Werthein," The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
  • "Visualizing the Blues: Images of the American South 1862-1999," Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX
  • "Contemporary Photographs," Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France
  • "Portrait as Performance," curated by Carla Hanzal and Ashley Kistler, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA (catalogue)
2001-02
  • "Issues of Identity in Recent American Art," Roland Gibson Art Gallery, SUNYPotsdam, NY; University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; The Ewing Gallery of Art and Architecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN; Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ; Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (catalogue)
2000
  • "Recent Acquisitions," The Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
  • "A Day With(out) Art Web Action," www.creativetime.org/dwa
  • "Our Quarter Century: The University of Arizona's Center for Creative Photography Turns 25," Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  • "Into Our Prime: Acquisitions Since 1996," Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
1999
  • "The Cultured Tourist," Carol Ehlers Gallery Limited, Chicago, IL
  • "Your I," Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
  • "Looking Into the Collection: Celebrity," Center for Creative Photography, The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  • "Bodies of Work: Series and Obsessions from the Center of Creative Photography," The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  • "Jean-Michel Basquiat photographed by Tseng Kwong Chi," L'espal Centre Culturel, Le Mans, France
1998
  • "[ID]entiteit," organized by Goethe Institute at Hessenhuis, Antwerp, Belgium
  • "Jean-Michel Basquiat photographed by Tseng Kwong Chi," Galerie Jerome de Noirmont, Paris, France
  • "Identity Revealed: Meaning & Message in Contemporary Art," Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
  • "New York Impressions," Galerie Mistral, Montreal, Quebec
  • "Mouse: An American Icon," Alternative Museum, New York, NY
  • "The Museum's Collections: Past Directions/New Visions," The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
  • "Histories (Re)membered: Selections from the Permanent Collection of the Bronx Museum of the Arts," Paine Weber Art Gallery, New York, NY
  • "The Estate Project for Artists with AIDS, The Virtual Collection," www.artistswithaids.org, in coordination with multiple institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY and the Brooklyn Museum of Art
  • "The Cultured Tourist," Leslie Tonkonow Artworks & Projects, New York, NY
1996-97
  • "Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present," curated by Sandra Phillips, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT (catalogue)
1996
  • "Pushing Image Paradigms: Conceptual Maneuvers in Recent Photography," Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
  • "Out Takes," Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
1995
  • "Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby," curated by Bruce Ferguson, Inaugural exhibition at Site Santa Fe, NM (catalogue)
  • "The Cultured Tourist," curated by Leslie Tonkonow, Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY
1994-02
  • "An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital, Highlights of the Hallmark Photographic Collection," curated by Keith F. Davis, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MI; Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA; International Center of Photography-Midtown, New York, NY; Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL; The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC; Seattle Art Museum, WA; Nelson-Atkins Museum, Kansas City, MO; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO (catalogue)
1994-96
  • "ASIA/AMERICA: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art ," curated by Margo Machida, Asia Society Galleries, New York, NY; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, NY; Walker Art Center, Minnesota, MN; Honolulu Academy of the Arts, Honolulu, HI; Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA; List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA; Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX (catalogue)
  • "OLD GLORY: The American Flag in Contemporary Art ," curated by David S. Rubin, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; The Art Gallery of Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO;Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ (Catalogue)
1993
  • "We Count! The State of Asian Pacific America - An Art Exhibit," organized by the Asian American Arts Centre at Tweed Gallery, New York, NY
1992
  • "California--The Cultural Edge, presented by Giorgio Beverly Hills, Director's Guild of America, Hollywood, CA
  • "Travel Documents," San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA
1991
  • "Site Seeing: Travel and Tourism in Contemporary Art," curated by Karen Higa, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown, New York, NY (catalogue)
1989
  • "Prisoners of Image," Alternative Museum, New York, NY
1987
  • "Portrayals," curated by Charles Stainback, International Center of Photography Midtown, New York, NY; Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, IN (catalogue)
1987-88
  • "One Eye or Two?" curated by Robert Lee, Asian Arts Institute, New York, NY (catalogue)
  • "This is Not a Photograph: Twenty Years of Large Scale Photography, 1966-1986," curated by Joseph Jacobs, TheJohn and Mable Ringling Museum, Sarasota, FL
  • "Immigrants and Refugees/Heroesor Villains," Exit Art, New York, NY
  • "Art for Money: A Benefit for Fashion Moda," Art et Industrie, New York, NY
  • "Mainly on the Plane," 56 Bleecker Gallery, New York, NY
1986
  • "Television's Impact on Contemporary Art," curated by Marc. H. Miller, The Queens Museum, Queens, New York
  • "Arts and Leisure, Group Material," The Kitchen, New York, NY
  • "The East Village," curated by Richard Martin, The Galleries at The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY
1985
  • "Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  • "Correspondences: New York Art Now," La Foret Museum, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
  • "No Shadows: Recent Photographic Self Portraiture," curated by Mathew Postal, Lawrence Miller Gallery, New York, NY
  • "The Subway Show," curated by Nina Sundell, Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
  • "Semaphore/Semaphore East," Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WN
  • "Tight as Spring," curated by Barry Blinderman, Kamikaze, New York, NY
  • "Rain Dance, A Benefit for Ethiopia," curated by Keith Haring, 292 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
  • "Taking Liberties," New York State Museum, Albany, NY
1984
  • "5/5 Figuration Libre France/USA," curated by Otto Hahn and Herve Perdriolle, Musee d'Art Moderne de La Ville de Paris, Paris, France
  • "New Attitudes: Paris/New York," curated by Sande Deitch and Tseng Kwong Chi, Pittsburgh Center for theArts, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue)
  • "In My End is My Beginning," Semaphore Gallery, New York, NY
  • "The New Portrait," curated by Jeffrey Deitch, P.S.1 Long Island City, Queens, NY
1983
  • "Traditions and Modern Configurations," Monogram Products, New York, NY and Wake Forest University, NC
  • "Matrix 75," in conjunction with Keith Haring, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
  • "Hong Kong/Tokyo/New York," Kenkeleba House, New York, NY
  • "Intoxication," Monique Knowlton Gallery, New York, NY
1982
  • "The Famous Show," Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY "Spring," P.S.1, Long Island City, Queens, New York, NY
1980
  • "First Invitational," curated by Keith Haring, Club 57, New York, NY

Selected Public Collections

Education

Awards

Selected Biography (Reviews and Articles)

2004
  • Fusco, Coco, "Only Skin Deep: Racial Time, Racial Marks, Racial Metaphors" International Center for Photography catalogue, p. 38, 58, back cover.
  • Kee, Joan, "Asiamericasia: Towards a Globalized Asian American Art History," talk and publication, CAA Conference 2004.
  • Schueller, Malini Johar, "Claiming Postcolonial America: The Hybrid Asian-American Performances of Tseng Kwong Chi," Asian North
  • American Identities, Ed. by Eleanor Ty and Donald C. Goellnicht, 2004.
2003
  • Goodman, Jonathan, "Tseng Kwong Chi at Chambers Fine Art," review, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, December 2003.
  • Yoshimoto, Midori, "Commodification of Buddhism," review, Art Asia Pacific, Fall 2003.
  • Balzer, David, "It's Official," Eye Weekly, www.eye.com, May 8, 2003.
  • O'Sullivan, Michael, "Examining the Artist as Subject," The Washington Post Weekend, February 14, 2003.
  • Johnson, Ken, "Who? Me?" The New York Times, January 10, 2003.
2002
  • Chinese Art News, November 2002.
  • Lorber, Martin Barnes, "Tseng Kwong Chi: Ambiguous Ambassador," Asian Art, October 2002.
  • "Art cue: Tseng Kwong Chi," New York, October 21, 2002.
  • Bach, Penny Balkin, "Lessons Learned," Public Art Review, Fall/Winter 02.
  • Row, D.K., "Lost in America," The Oregonian, April 26, 2002.
  • Habib, John Philip, "A Life in Chinese Drag," The Advocate, April 2, 2002.
  • Shapiro, Howard, "The Ambiguous Ambassador," The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 28, 2002.
  • Ranney, Dave, "University Exhibit Meditates on pre-Sept. 11 New York," Lawrence Journal-World, March 2002.
  • Johnson, Ken, "Tseng Kwong Chi," The New York Times, March 1, 2002.
  • Lewis, Francis, "Ultimate Tourist," Where, March 2002.
  • Levin, Kim, "Voice Choices," Village Voice, February 2002.
2000
  • Stewart, Laura, "Collection Takes Viewers on Journey," The News Journal, October 29, 2000.
  • Small, Irene V., "Spectacle of Invisibility: The Photography of Tseng Kwong Chi and Nikki S. Lee," Dialogue, Spring-Summer 2000.
  • Young, Clara, "Slutforart," Dutch, January/February 2000.
1999
  • Carr, C., "Just Visiting This Planet," Village Voice, March 9, 1999.
1998
  • "Around Town," Time Out New York, July 1998.
  • "Recommended Art-Chelsea Galleries," The New York Times, February 1998
1997
  • Kee, Joan, Artnet.com, October 1997.
  • Regan, Margaret, "Eternal Tourist," Tucson Weekly, October 23-29, 1997.
  • Pedersen, Victoria, "Gallery Go' Round," Paper, October 1997.
  • Levin, Kim, "Voice Choices," Village Voice, September 1997.
  • Cotter, Holland, "Tseng Kwong Chi," The New York Times, September 1997.
  • Baker, Kenneth, "This Mao Uniform Traveled Well," San Francisco Chronicle, June 10, 1997.
  • Perrott, Jeff, "Tseng Kwong Chi," artsMEDIA, April 1997.
  • Turner, Grady T., "The Accidental Ambassador, " Art in America, March 1997.
  • Creative Camera, February/March, 1997.
1996
  • Isola, Marina, "Tseng Kwong Chi, East Meets West: The Expeditionary Series," Time Out New York, November 14-21, 1996.
  • Schjeldahl, Peter, "Everywhere Man," Village Voice, November 19, 1996.
  • Loke, Margaret, "Inside Photography," The New York Times, October 18, 1996.
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi," New Yorker, October 1996.
  • Dewan, Shaila, "Crossed Cultures," Houston Press, July 4-10, 1996.
  • Lei, Boniya, Hsiung Shih Art Monthly (Taipei, Taiwan), May 1996.
1995
  • Bonetti, David, "Asian Artists Test U.S. Waters," San Francisco Examiner, October 20, 1995.
  • Maclay, Catherine, "Immigrants' Art Shows Culture Clash," San Jose Mercury News, October 13, 1995.
  • Baker, Kenneth, "Asian Immigrant Arts Revealed," San Francisco Chronicle, October 12, 1995.
  • Rose, Joan, "Asian Americans Express Cross-Cultural Artistry," The Honolulu Advertiser, August 20, 1995.
  • Van de Walle, Mark, "Site Santa Fe," Artforum, 1995.
1994
  • Hollander, Kurt, "Tseng Kwong Chi: The Communist Tourist," cover and feature article, Poleister (Mexico), Volume 10, Fall 1994.
  • Blinderman, Barry, "Tseng Kwong Chi," Photographers International, June 1994.
  • "Goings on about town: Asia Society," The New Yorker, April 11, 1994.
  • Wallach, Amei, "Immigrant Asians' Debut," New York Newsday, March 11, 1994.
  • Barry, Rebecca, "Tseng Kwong Chi at the Alternative Museum," Asian Art News, January/February 1994.
1993
  • Aletti, Vince, "Voice Choices: Tseng Kwong Chi," The Village Voice, November 23, 1993.
1992
  • Wallace, Amy, "California-the Cultural Edge," The Los Angeles Times, November 18, 1992.
  • Bonetti, David, review, "San Francisco Examiner, August 14, 1992.
  • Chadwick, Susan, "Photos portray life in poor countries," The Houston Post, April 1, 1992, p. D-8.
  • Johnson, Patricia, C., "Satellite Photos," Houston Chronicle, March 27, 1992, p. 4E.
  • Satterwhite, Steve, "Jean Caslin," Houston Press, March 19, 1992, p. 10.
  • Review of HCP exhibition, World Journal of Texas, March 6, 1992 (Chinese).
  • Cunningham, Carl, "Dancer's tribute unites art forms," The Houston Post, March 5, 1992.
  • Caslin, Jean and Shackleford, Bill, "Tseng Kwong Chi: The Expeditionary Works at Houston Center for Photography," Photo Metro, March 1992, pp. 28-33.
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi: The Expeditionary Works at Houston Center for Photography," Photo Metro, March 1992, pp. 28-31.
1990
  • Hess, Elizabeth, The Village Voice, October 1, 1990.
  • Bernstein, Stacey, "Spectrum," ARTnews, Summer 1990, p. 39.
  • "Artworld," Art in America, May, p. 273.
1989
  • "Cities," text and photos by Tseng Kwong Chi, Inside, Spring 1989, pp. 5,13 and cover.
1988
  • "Tseng Kwong Chi: Monuments and Natural Wonders," Aperture, Spring 1988, p. 16.
1987
  • Cunningham, Ann, "'Portrayals' seeks measure of truth by revealing little lies," The Indiana Star, December 16, 1987.
  • Aletti, Vince, "Face Off," The Village Voice, July 7, 1987.
  • Grundberg, Andy, review of "Portrayals," The New York Times, July 5, 1987.
  • Aletti, Vince, "Voice Choices: Portrayals," The Village Voice, June 30, 1987.
  • Schwabsky, Barry, Arts Magazine, May 1987, p. 107.
  • Becker, Robert, "Modern Masters: Tseng Kwong Chi", Interview, May 1987, pp. 103-131.
  • "The Rocky Mountain Maoist," Harpers, May 1987, p. 32.
  • Hagenberg, Roland, "King Kwong: A Mock Chinese Tourist Discovers America," Artfinder, May 1987, pp. 86-87.
  • L.A., "Tseng Kwong Chi: Casas Toledo Oosterom," 108: An East Village Review, March/April 1987.
1986
  • Martin, Richard, "East Meets West Meets North by Northwest: Tseng Kwong Chi in the Badlands and at Mount Rushmore," Arts Magazine, October 1986, pp. 72-73.
  • Martin, Richard, "The Expeditionary Photographs of Tseng Kwong Chi," Arts Magazine, September 1986.
  • Lathem, Alexis, "Review of show at Gallery Casas Toledo Oosterom," 108, An East Village Review, March-April 1986, cover.
  • Djanoumoff, Philippe, "Le Chinois Photographieur, Le Chinois Photographie," L'Equerre, 1986, pp. 10-11.
  • Gross, Michael, "Art of the Improbable: An East Village Exhibit," The New York Times, February 25, 1986.
  • Handy, Ellen, "Leonid Sokov/Tseng Kwong Chi/Gregg Smith,"Arts Magazine, March 1986, pp. 142-143.
  • Vandel, Philippe, "Le Chinois qui se Photographe Partout," Actuel, January 1986, p. 154.
1985
  • Engler, Brigitte, "Mr. Pop," Paper, November 1985.
  • Peillon, Antoine, "Nouvelle Vague Fuji en ClerqueObscur Arles '85," Photoreporter, August 1985, pp. 32-33.
  • Mohri, Noriko, "Tseng Kwong Chi," Studio Voice, July 1985, pp. 54-59.
  • Lombard, Christine, "East Meets West," Clich'es, July 1985.
  • Jenaer, Stephanie, "East Meets West," Clich'es, April 1985, pp. 24-25.
  • Holm, Stellan, "Vem Bar Vem, New York," Chic, April 1985, pp. 24-25.
  • "Paris: Free Figuration," ARTnews, April 1985.
  • "Art in Transit," Heavy Metal, February 1985, p. 49.
  • Breevette, Genevieve, "Figuration Libre a l'Arc, Effects Speciaux, Le Monde, January 1985, p. 15.
  • "Figuration Libre, UneInvitation a la Culture Mass-Medias," Guide des Mentalites Nouvelles, 1985.
1984
  • Spitzer, Carolyn, "New York," City Magazine, December 1984, p. 13.
  • "Mao Wow Wow," New York Talk, November 1984, p.19.
  • "Art in Transit," An An, November 1984, p. 21.
  • der Chung, Ming, "20th Century Art, Grafitti in New York Subway," World Journal, November 1984, pp. 24-27.
  • Chadakoff, Rochelle, "Front Runners," US Magazine, November 1984, p. 7.
  • Miller, Donald, "What a Difference," Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, October 6, 1984.
  • Lowry, Patricia, "'Paris/New York' shows a mixed bag," The Pittsburgh Press, October 4, 1984.
  • May, Mike, "Paris on the Ohio," Market Square, October 3, 1984, p. 11.
  • Ramirez-Harwood, Yasmin, "Subculture in Print," East Village Eye, October 1984, p. 35.
  • Lowry, Patricia, "New Wave Art," The Pittsburgh Press, September 20, 1984, pp. c-1, c-9.
  • "Arts Center Brings Together Artists from N.Y., Paris," Market Square, September 19, 1984.
  • Hershkovits, David, review of Semaphore exhibition, Paper, August 1984.
  • Hagen, Charles, "Tseng Kwong Chi," Artforum, April 1984.
  • Handy, Ellen, review of Semaphore show, Arts Magazine, March 1984, pp. 36-37.
  • Bannon, Anthony, "C.E.P.A./Hallwalls Galleries, Disparate Exhibits Offer Potpourri of Media, Themes," Buffalo News, February 12, 1984.
  • Gorey, Mark, "Hallwalls/C.E.P.A.Beguiles, Entertains," Prodigal Sun, February 1984, cover & centerfold.
  • Perdriolle, Herve, "Magie Noire, Magie Blanche," Beaux Arts, January 1984, pp. 55-59.
  • Lorrain, Christine, Zoom (USA edition), January 1984.
1983
  • Lorrain, Christine, Zoom, (French edition), December 1984.
  • Heller, Faith, Winston-Salem Journal, November 1983.
  • "East Meets West," Flash Art, May 1983.
  • Glueck, Grace, "Art: One Man's Biennial Assembles 102 Artists," The New York Times, April 15, 1983.
  • Moufarrege, Nicolas, "Intoxication," Arts, April 1983.
  • Moufarrege, Nicolas, "Tseng Kwong Chi and Rammellzee," Flash Art, March 1983.
  • Moufarrege, Nicolas, "Found Objects and Found Space," New York Native, March 14-27 1983.
  • Webb, Jane, East Village Eye, March 1983.
  • McDarrah, Fred, East Village Voice, February 1983, centerfold.
  • Moufarrege, Nicolas, "The Famous Show," Flash Art, January 1983.
1982
  • Moufarrege, Nicolas, "The East Village: Another Wave," Arts Magazine, December 1982.

Selected Books and Catalogues

2004
  • Ambiguous Ambassador, monograph on the Expeditionary Self-Portrait Series, Nazraeli Press, 2004.
  • The Rubell Family Collection, 40 Years, essay by Mark Coetzee, 2004.
2003
  • Fusco, Coco and Wallis, Brian, Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self, exhibition catalogue, International Center of Photography, New York, Abrams, 2003.
2002
  • Portrait of the Art World: A Century of ARTnews Photographs, exhibition catalogue, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 2002.
  • A Retrospective, Improbable Pilgrim: The Photographs of Tseng Kwong Chi, essay by Amy Ingrid Schlegel, Philadelphia Art Alliance, 2002.
  • Original Sources, Art and Archives at the Center for Contemporary Photography, CCP, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2002, pp. 212-213 and title page, 2002.
1999
  • Lippard, Lucy, On the Beaten Track, The New Press, New York, pp. 35-36, 1999.
1995
  • An American Century of Photography, The Hallmark Collection, text by Keith Davis, Hallmark Cards, Inc. in association with Harry N. Abrams, Inc., pp. 314-45, 353, 1995.
1994
  • Lowe, Donald M., "Against Nostalgia: The Photo Images of Tseng Kwong Chi," Positions: East Asia Cultures Critique, Duke University Press, 1994.
  • Rubin, David S., The American Flag in Contemporary Art, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, 1994.
  • Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art, text by Margo Machida, The Asia Society, The New Press, p. 63, 1994.
1991
  • Site Seeing: Travel and Tourism in Contemporary Art, essay by Karen M. Higa, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1991.
1990
  • Tseng Kwong Chi, foreword by Richard Martin, Art Random, Kyoto Shoin, 1990.
1987
  • One Eye or Two, introduction by Robert Lee and essay by Barry Schwabsky, Asian Arts Institute, New York, 1987.
  • Portrayals, introduction by Charles Stainback, and essay by Carol Squiers, International Center of Photography,ICP/Midtown, New York, 1987.
  • This is not a Photograph: Twenty Years of Large Scale Photography, John & Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida, 1987.
  • The Avant Garde in New York, foreword by Serichi Tanka, Tanaka Studio, Inc., Tokyo, 1987.
1986
  • Images '86, Galerie Beau Lezard, Editions Rivages, Paris, 1986.
  • Television's Impact on Contemporary Art, text by Marc H. Miller, The Queens County Art and Cultural Center, Flushing, New York, 1986.
  • Art After Midnight, text by Steven Hagar, St. Martin's Press, New York, 1986.
  • Keith Haring vu par Tseng Kwong Chi, forward by Jean Louis Froment, CAPC Musee d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, France, 1986.
  • Correspondences: New York Art Now, text by Nicholas Moufarrege, Tsurumoto Room Co. Ltd., Tokyo, 1986.
1984
  • Art in Transit, New York Subway Drawings by Keith Haring, introduction by Henry Geldzahler and text by Keith Haring, Harmony Books, Crown Publishers.
  • 5/5 Figuration Libre France/USA, text by Otto Hahn, Herve Perdriolle, and Jeffrey Deitch, Musee d'Art Modernede laVille de Paris, Paris.

Performances

1986
  • "Keith Haring's Party of Life III," The Palladium, New York City.
1982
  • "Scandinavia Today," The Clocktower, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York City.
  • "The Kitchen Tour," Staten Island Ferry, New York City.
  • "Space Invaders," P.S. 1, Long Island City, Queens, New York City.
  • "Valentine's Day," Stilwend, New York City.
1981
  • "Avalon Beach Patrol Lifeguard Ball," Wildwood, New York City.
  • "Inaugural Ball," The Mudd Club, New York City.
  • "Royal Wedding," The Underground, New York City.
1980
  • "Chinese Costume Exhibition," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City.
  • "Artists and Models Ball," Danceteria, New York City.
  • "First Invitational," Club 57, New York City.

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