David Diao was born on 1943 and is a Chinese American artist and teacher based in New York City.
10 Facts About David Diao
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David Diao's father was a student in the US and later became a structural engineer.
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David Diao joined him in NY in 1955, being 12 years old.
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David Diao first won acclaim and public attention with an exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery in 1969.
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David Diao is known for his simplification of form, minimal compositions, and uses of stylized text and typography.
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David Diao has served on the faculty at Hampshire College where he met Walid Raad, with whom he has collaborated.
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David Diao's 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.
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David 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.
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David Diao received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award.
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David Diao is currently represented by Greene Naftali, New York; Tanya Leighton, Berlin; and Office Baroque, Brussels.