Tiger Chengliang Cai is a visual artist, photographer and filmmaker base in NYC.
Born in 1984, Shanghai, China,
Education Background:
2014 MFA Photography, Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts, USA
2007 BA, Art History, Fine Arts college of Shanghai University, CHINA
Awards and Honors:
2016 Asia Contemporary Young Artist Award, Grand Prize, Gwanghwamun International Art Festival, Seoul, Korea
2014 Awards of Merit, Accolade Global Film Competition, USA
Best Experimental Film, Big Mini Media Festival, USA
The Paula Rhodes Memorial Award, SVA, USA
Selected Exhibitions and Screenings:
2021 Myths & Legends, Online NFT Drop curated by Snark.art and Chambers Fine Art Gallery
Virtual Niche: Have you ever seen memes in the mirror? UCCA Lab, Beijing, China
12th NYC Independent Film Festival, New York, NY
2020 33rd Festival Les Instants Vidéo 2020, Marseilles, France
Together in Distance, Covid-19 Relief Benefit Auction 2020, Artspace.com, NYC
2019 Roadside Picnic 2, Owen Gallery, Gould Academy, Bethel, Maine
2018 Roadside Picnic, Chambers Fine Art, Chelsea, NYC
#Hashtag, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
2017 Solo screening of Tiger Chengliang Cai’s recent video work, Fou Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
Gwanghwamun International Art Festival, What Makes Life Art? Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2016 Non-Existent Time, Trends Art Space, Beijing, China
The UMW Media Wall Featured Artist of November, Hurley Convergence Center, University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, VA, USA
State of Poetic Emergency, 29th Festival Les Instants Vidéo 2016, Marseilles, France
The Way of Seeing, three person exhibition in Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Art in the City Fesitval, BLAST!, chi K11 Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Gwanghwamun International Art Festival, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Solo Screening of Tiger’s Experimental Films and Video Arts, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
Lucca Film Festival, International short film competition, Lucca, Italy
Wood, Group show in Cloud Gallery, NYC, USA
Floating Ink, E-Moderne Gallerie, Philadelphia, USA
2015 Sinamerica I - Chinese art in U.S. across generations, NYC, USA
The Possibility of Video Art and The Crossover Experiment - Duo Screening of Tiger Cai and Yi Xu, Shanghai China
Kun Ting Art Project, Museum of Science Fetish, Beijing, China
38th Asian American International Film Festival, NYC, USA
Urban Weasterns, an experimental video projection project, NYC, USA
W.E.+ Art festival, NYC, USA,
Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Athens International Film & Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, USA
Ezuff Urban Film Festival 2015, NYC, USA
Glovebox Short Film & Animation Festival, Boston, MA, USA
2014 Big Mini Media Festival, Brooklyn, NY, USA
MFA Photography, Video and related Media Thesis Exhibition, NYC, USA
1st Chinese American and In- America Chinese directors’ Sci-Fi films screening, NYC, USA
Subversion: Music About Conflict, Politics, and War, (Live performance video effects design) Spectrum NYC, USA
2013 Ezuff Urban Film Festival, NYC, USA
NURTUREart benefit 2013, NYC, USA
2012 Fenghuang International Photography Festival, Hunan, China
2009 Kaleidoscope, Cologne, German;
Better City, Better Life, Public Art Project in Cao Yang Community (Cao Yang Project), Shanghai, China.
2008 Jiong —Expression and Attitude: The Third Shanghai Youth Art Exhibition, Shanghai, China
Press and Publications
1. Mentioned in Review: ‘Made in China,’ With Romance, Polemics and Puppets, The New York Times, Jan. 16 2017
2.Three Rear Profiles and An Artificial Universe, A Review on Cai Chengliang's Video Art, published on Art China magazine, March 2016, P102-105
3.Interview about Tiger Chengliang Cai’s Recent Artwork, published on The Artist Catalogue, Volume 5, Issue2, Summer 2016
4. Artworks mentioned in The Year of Chinese Sci-Fi Cinema, Movieview magazine (China), Issue675, p82-85, Dec 2015
5. Lucid Dreams, Lonely Man, A Review on Six Dreams about a City, published on The Shanghai Morning Herald, Mar 2015
6. Interview on Six Dreams About a City, published on New Younger Magazine, P23-30 Sept 2014
7. Chinese and Chinese American Sci-Fi directors emerges in global stages, report about Chengliang Cai’s Truth Tower published on People.cn, Apr./2014. & Would Journal, Apr./2014
8. Movies as Iconography, The renaissance of classical visual arts on the screen, article published on TopFloor Art Magazine, July/2011, P98-101 .
9. Release 2011, visual artwork for TopFloor Art Magazine, Jan./2011, P1.
10. Night Walker’s Dream, Interview with artist Chengliang Cai, artworks and interview published on Shanghai Weekly, Dec./2010, Vision Edition.
11. Catalog: If there is no … Caoyang, a collection of works for “Better City, Better Life—Public Art Project in Cao Yang Community, published by Xuelin Press, 2010.