David Diao (1943)
David Diao
David Diao is a Chinese American artist and teacher based in New York City. He first won acclaim and public attention with an exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery in 1969. He is known for his simplification of form, minimal compositions, and uses of stylized text and typography. Diao's work was included at dOCUMENTA 13. His work is featured in the collection of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, SFMOMA, Rennes's public council collection, among others. Diao taught at the Cooper Union in the early 70s and was then mostly doing color field painting made by squeegying paint across a large canvas. In 2008 he had his first exhibition in China. In 2012, he was elected into the National Academy of Design. He received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2015).
| Date and place of birt: | 1943, Chengdu, China |
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| Nationality: | China, USA |
| Period of activity: | XX, XXI century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Engraver, Graphic artist, Painter |
| Art style: | Abstract art, Color field painting, Minimalism, Contemporary art |
| Technique: | Acrylic, Acrylic on canvas, Aquatint, Engraving, Hand graphic, Lithography |
