Cai Guo Qiang

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Chinese | 1957

Cai Guo Qiang is a Chinese Asian Modern & Contemporary artist who was born in 1957.

How much does a Cai Guo Qiang cost?

Cai Guo Qiang's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 14 USD to 2,641,401 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork.

What is Cai Guo Qiang's most expensive works on paper?

Since 2002 the record price for this artist at auction is 2,641,401 USD for Project For Extraterrestrials No.10, Project to Extend the Great Wall of China, sold at Sotheby's Hong Kong in 2007. In the past 12 months, his artworks have averaged 30,211 USD.

Where can I see Cai Guo Qiang's works?

His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like National Gallery of Australia in Canberra. Numerous key galleries and museums such as The Jewish Museum New York have featured Cai Guo Qiang's work in the past.

Cai Guo Qiang in the news

Cai Guo Qiang has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for The New York Times in October 2025.

Artist's alternative names: Cai Guo Chiang, Cai Guoqiang, Cai Guo-Qiang

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Featured for Sale

Yin-Yang Peonies

By Cai Guo Qiang

Pinto Gallery

At Auction

Notable Lots

Furious Tiger Going Down a Mountain - Cai Guo Qiang

Furious Tiger Going Down a Mountain ,2005

By Cai Guo Qiang

+28%

above mid-estimate

PROJECT TO EXTEND THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA BY 10,000 METERS: PROJECT FOR EXTRATERRESTRIALS NO. 10 (IN 5 PIECES) - Cai Guo Qiang

PROJECT TO EXTEND THE GREAT WALL OF CHINA BY 10,000 METERS: PROJECT FOR EXTRATERRESTRIALS NO. 10 (IN 5 PIECES) ,2000

By Cai Guo Qiang

Yellow and White Peonies - Cai Guo Qiang

Yellow and White Peonies ,2014

By Cai Guo Qiang

+11%

above mid-estimate

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Recent Auction Results

Untitled ,2013

By Cai Guo Qiang

-38%

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89-3 ,1989

By Cai Guo Qiang

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Sinking and Rising 鈥� Project for Extraterrestrials No.27 - Cai Guo Qiang

Sinking and Rising 鈥� Project for Extraterrestrials No.27 ,1998

By Cai Guo Qiang

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Current Exhibitions

Cai Guo-Qiang: Gunpowder and Abstraction 2015鈥�2025

White Cube, London (Bermondsey Street)

London | UK

26 Sep, 2025 - 09 Nov, 2025

New Asian Art. Collection Display

National Gallery of Australia

Canberra | Australia

13 Sep, 2025 - 18 Apr, 2027

Past Exhibitions

After 鈥淭he Wild鈥�: Contemporary Art from The Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Collection

The Jewish Museum New York

Upper East Side | New York | USA

24 Mar, 2023 - 01 Oct, 2023

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Articles

The Art World This Week: Paris Art Week Auctions, New Art Basel Paris Director, ICA San Francisco Goes Nomadic, and More

黑料不打烊 30 Oct, 2025

Everything you need to know about the most important headlines from the world of art in the last seven days

The Anatomy of Spectacle

Kunstkritikk 27 Oct, 2025

In Paris, everything sparkles in a fascinating and terrifying way.

Art Basel Paris 2025 Final Sales Report

ArtLyst 26 Oct, 2025

Art Basel Paris has settled into its second year at the Grand Palais with the confidence of a show that knows where it stands.

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鈥� ..Known for his explosion projects and gunpowder drawings... 鈥�
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The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

鈥� ..Mao's image was the only thing in the world that you knew you could paint..... 鈥�
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Asia Society and Museum, New York

鈥� ..Both works poetically address time's passage and the important role memory plays in attending to the past... 鈥�
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The Fabric Workshop and Museum

鈥� ..The most monumental drawing, Childhood Spaceship, reveals Cai's childhood reveries of the universe... 鈥�
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The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

鈥� ..intings, photography, and other works, be it professional or amateur, realist or amorphous, viewers can see how generation after generation, the artist's family accompanies and mutually influences Cai... 鈥�
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Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht

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