JACKY TSAI

Jacky Tsai is a multidimensional Chinese artist based in London. Spanning from traditional canvas to NFT real-time based digitals, Tsai’s artworks integrate Eastern ideology and cultural symbols with Western Pop art icons and motifs, creating alternative narratives and realities by constantly reflecting on ours. Through unifying the differences and similarities between cultures, Tsai’s works provoke viewers to rethink intercultural relationship and aim to establish tension as well as harmony between cultural representations. Many of his works explore classical Chinese artistry, enabling his works to bring focus onto the exquisite yet forsaken craftsmanship. These various mediums act as devices to present his work in past, present and future tenses, emphasising the residue of time.

In recent years, Tsai’s internationally acclaimed success in digital art field has led him to becoming the first Asian artist to transform his art into new blockchain technology digital art. Many of Tsai’s kinetic artworks are also real-time based programmable art which respond to live events. In October 2022, he was awarded “Artist of the Year” by Digital Art Fair in Hong Kong, celebrating his 10 years of traditional as well as digital art triumph. Collaborating with Sotheby’s Hong Kong, Tsai’s all-encompassing series of works combining his traditional forms and digital art were unprecedentedly auctioned off.

Tsai studied for his BA at the China Academy of Art before moving to London to study at Central Saint Martin’s. His work has been exhibited worldwide, with key exhibitions in London, Moscow, Hong Kong, New York, Singapore, and Shanghai. In February 2018, Tsai’s first retrospective exhibition opened at the prestigious Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMOMA). In 2022, Tsai’s “Life·Fantasy” exhibition opened at Fosun Foundation Shanghai, which marked his first major museum exhibition in mainland China. In the near future, Tsai’s works will be seen at The Museum of Contemporary Art & Planning Exhibition in Shenzhen, MOCA in Bangkok and Fosun Foundation in Chengdu.

Exhibitions
2023 Reincarnation, MOCA BANGKOK
2023 Life Fantasy, Chengdu
2022 Digital Art Fair Xperience 2022
2022 A Floating Life - Rhapsody, Taipei
2022 Order in Chaos, New York
2021 Forever is Now, Kuala Lumpur
2021 Life·Fantasy, Shanghai
2019 Men of Steel, Women of Wonder, Arkansas
2018 Fly Me to the Moon, Moscow
2018 Reincarnation, London
2017 Human Nature, Hong Kong
2017 The Lost Angels, Los Angeles
2016 Harmonious Society, London
2015 Future Past, London
2014 Eastern Orbit, London
2014 India Art Fair, Scream Booth, New Delhi, India
2014 Art Stage Singapore, Scream Booth, Singapore
2013 Summer Exhibition, Scream, London
2013 Use Your Head, artwork display and launch of menswear collection, Harvey Nichols, London
2012 Multiplied Art Fair, Christieʼs South Kensington, London
2012 London Art Fair, London
2011 Multiplied Art Fair in Christieʼs South Kensington, London
2011 May Fair Hotel silent auction event, Eyestorm, London
2010 Jacky Tsai, Solo Show, Salon Contemporary, London
2010 Irwin and Jordan (now Zoe Jordan) Spring/Summer Collection
2011 Floral Skulls, Shanghai Tang, London
2009 Inspiring London, Museum of London, London
2008 Alexander McQueen Spring/Summer Menswear Collection
2008 CHINA GO, Museums Quartier Wien, Vienna, Austria
2008 UKʼs Future Greats, White Box Gallery, New York
2008 Salon Contemporary, London
2008 Young Icebreakers Art Exhibition, Holborn, London
2007 Heroes, Design Museum, London

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