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David Diao was born on 1943 in Chengdu, China, is a David Diao is artist and teacher. Discover David Diao's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 81 years old?

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Born 1943
Birthday 1943
Birthplace Chengdu, China
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1943

David Diao (born 1943) is a Chinese American artist and teacher based in New York City.

Diao 刁德谦 was born in Chengdu, in China.

1949

Several years of his childhood were spent in Hong Kong, at the moment of the revolution in October 1949, before he ultimately settled in the United States.

His father was a student in the US and later became a structural engineer.

1955

He joined him in NY in 1955, being 12 years old.

1960

There he began working as an artist in the late 1960s.

Firstly, he got the job as the sweeper-upper at the Kootz Gallery.

Sam Kootz, the owner of this gallery, was among the first to show Abstract Expressionism.

1964

Diao completed his undergraduate degree at Kenyon College in Gambier, Ohio and in 1964 he moved back to New York.

1966

In 1966 he worked at the Guggenheim, where he installed shows in case some extra help was necessary.

1969

He first won acclaim and public attention with an exhibition at Paula Cooper Gallery in 1969.

He is known for his simplification of form, minimal compositions, and uses of stylized text and typography.

Diao has served on the faculty at Hampshire College where he met Walid Raad, with whom he has collaborated.

Diao's work was included at dOCUMENTA 13.

His 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.

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.

2008

In 2008 he had his first exhibition in China.

2012

In 2012, he was elected into the National Academy of Design.

2015

He received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists award (2015).

Diao is currently represented by Greene Naftali, New York; Tanya Leighton, Berlin; and Office Baroque, Brussels.