Tiger Chengliang Cai
Tiger Chengliang Cai is a visual artist and filmmaker based in New York City. He was initially trained as an art historian, but later devoting himself to fine art practice. His works include paintings, animations, video arts, experimental films, digital arts, and installations. Through his artworks, Tiger focuses on topics like Sci-Fi, (alternate) history, mythology, the boundary between dreams and reality, and more important, how individual human relate to all these evolving narratives.
Education:
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
Solo Exhibitions and Solo Screenings:
2021
The Golden Pavilion, Virtual solo exhibition, Chambers Fine Art at TopBidder Artbyss
2017
Solo screening of Tiger Chengliang Cai’s recent video work, Fou Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC
2016
Solo Screening of Tiger’s Experimental films and Video Art Work, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
Other Selected Exhibitions and Screenings:
2022
Sound + Vision, Curated by ONBD at Empire DAO, NYC
Life on Land，DoinGud Booth @ ETH Barcelona
Matter Matters，Chambers Fine Art, NYC
2021
Who’s Dat Panda，CryptoPanda Community exhibition， Latitude Gallery，NYC
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 2016, 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
Gwanghwamun International Art Festival 17, What Makes Life Art? Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2016
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 16, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Lucca Film Festival, Lucca, Italy
2015
Sinamerica I - Chinese art in U.S. across generations, Agora Gellery, Chelsea, NY, USA
The Possibility of Video Art and The Crossover Experiment – Duo
Screening of Tiger Cai and Yi Xu, Shanghai China
38th Asian American International Film Festival, NYC, USA
Urban Weasterns, an experimental video projection project, NYC,USA
Art of Brooklyn Film Festival, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Athens International Film & Video Festival, Athens, Ohio, USA
Glovebox Short Film & Animation Festival, Boston, MA, USA
