TANG DA WU Born 1943, Singapore
ARTIST STATEMENT
Tang is possibly one of Singapore’s most eminent contemporary artists. His work constantly raises social awareness of issues of identity and social history in Singapore and the region. Outspoken and unorthodox in his methodology, the path of his work has been crucial to the way visual art has developed in Singapore.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Situationist Bon Gun, ICA Gallery, Singapore
2011 First Art Council, Goodman Arts Centre, Singapore
2010 Future of Imagination 6, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2006 Heroes, Islanders, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2005 Your Head, Your Mother Gallery, Singapore
1991 Tiger’s Whip, National Museum Art Gallery, Singapore
Asian Art Today - Fukuoka Annual V: Tang Da Wu Exhibition, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
1990 North-East Monsoon, performance, National Museum, Singapore
1989 Home Documentation, Art Base Gallery, Singapore
The Rhino’s Horn, National Museum Art Gallery, Singapore
1981 Save The Forest, performance, Epping Forest, U.K.
1980 Earth Works, installation, National Museum Art Gallery, Singapore
1978 Marks, installation, Acme Gallery, London, U.K.
1970 Exhibition of Paintings, Chinese Chamber of Commerce, sponsored by Singapore Art Society
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2013 Not Against Interpretation: Untitled, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
No Country: Contemporary Art for South and Southeast Asia, Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2012 Untitled (Singapura #90), FOST Gallery, Singapore
2010 Singapore Survey 2010: Beyond LKY, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore
2008 The Scale of Black, Valentine Willie Fine Art, Singapore
2007 Fetter Field Performance Art Festival, Sungei Road Thieves' Market, Singapore
Singapore Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition, Italy
2005 Art of Our Time, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
2004 Satsuma Brilliance, Kirishima Open Air Museum, Japan
Interakcje, Trybunalski, Poland
2002 Many Heads and Local Heroes, Singapore
2001 Under a Banana Leaf, Echigo Tsumarigo, Japan
2000 Tapioca Friendship, Gwangju Biennale, South Korea
1999 Feature 3, Art-2 Gallery, Singapore
1992 The Space, performance, Singapore Festival of Arts, Hong Bee Warehouse, Singapore
New Art From Southeast Asia, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Space, Japan
1991 Many in One - 25 Years of Singapore Art, Meridian House, Washington DC, USA
Malaysian Experience, National Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
1989 Contemporary Art in Singapore; Where East Meets West, Tropen Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1986 Exhibitions of Painting and Performances, The Royal Festival Hall, London
1984 2nd International Festival of Performance, Bracknell, England
1983 ALTERNIVA III, The International Festival of Performance, Almada, Portugal
AWARDS
1999 Arts and Culture Prize, 10th Fukuoka Asian Culture Prizes
1995 Foundation prize, Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Singapore
1978 Visual Arts Awards, Arts Council of Great Britain, U.K.
1975 3rd Prize, Royal Overseas League, London, U.K.
1974 3rd Prize (Sculpture), Birmingham City Museum, U.K.
1973 1st Prize, Forward Trust Painting Competition, U.K.
1972 1st Prize (Sculpture), Midland Art ’72 Dudley Museum, U.K.
COLLECTIONS
Singapore Art Museum
Queensland Art Gallery
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum