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Tang Da Wu
Born 1943
Singapore
1970 Drawings and Paintings (First Solo Exhibition), Chinese Chamber of Commerce, Singapore
1972 Touch Space (Sculpture), Midland Art 72, Dudley Museum, UK
1973 Crowds (Painting), Forward Trust Painting Competition, Birmingham, U.K.
1975 Marking over Marks (Painting), Royal Overseas League, London, U.K.
1978 Marks-Black Powder Falling Through Muslin (Installation of Marks at ACME Gallery), London, U.K.
1980 Earthworks (Installation of Works from “Earthworks”, 1979-1980), National Museum Art Gallery and Sin Chew Jit Poh Exhibition Centre, Singapore
1981 Save the Forest (Performance at Epping Forest), U.K.
1982 Five Days at NAFA and Five Days in Museum (Performanceat NanYang Academy of Fine Arts and National Museum), Singapore
1983 Sumi (Performance at Lyndhurst Hall Studio), London, U.K.
Movement in a Circle (Performance at London Musician Collective), U.K.
Flying Marks (Performance at ALTERNATIVA III, Festival of Performance, Almada), Portugal
In Between and Change ( Performance at the 4th Performance Platform), Nottingham, U.K.
1984 The 1984 Show (Performance at Brixton Art Gallery), London , U.K.
You’re Welcome and The Door-The Birth ( Performance at the Second International Festival of Performance, Brecknell), England
Jufu-Best Wishes (Performance at Ikebana Trust), London, U.K.
A Fish/ A Path and Responding to You (Performance at Townhall Studio), Swindon, U.K.
Every Other Move (Painting), Opoto, Portugal
1985 The Support (Performance at Woodland Gallery), Greenwich, U.K.
Steaming Laundry (Performance at Brixton Art Gallery), London, U.K.
1986 No Fancy Brushes (Performance) and New Life (Paintings), Royal Festival Hall, U.K.
In The End, My Mother Decided to Eat Dogfood and Catfood (Performance), Orchard Road Weekend Art Fair, Singapore
1987 Four Days at the National Museum Art Gallery (Performance), National Museum, Singapore
People (Painting), The Oval Gallery, London, U.K
1988 In Case of Howard Lui and Incident in a City (Performance at Singapore Festival of Arts Fringe 1988), Old Joseph’s Institution Building, Singapore
Who Polluted the Canal?, Islington City Art ’88, London, U.K.
1989 To Make Friends is All We Want in 1989 (Performance at Big O Concert, with music performance by Joe Ng of Corporate Toil), Singapore Music Festival 1989, Orchard Road, Singapore
Life Boat (Performance at Cuppage Village), The Artist Village Show
Home Documentation (Paintings and Drawings), Art Base Gallery, Singapore
Gooseman; Open the Gate; Dancing UV; Selling Handicaps; In the End, My Mother Decided to Eat Dogfood and Catfood, (Performances at the Artist Village 2nd Open Studio Show), Lorong Gambas, Singapore
They Poach the Rhino, Chop Off his Horn and Make this Drink (Performance at National Museum Art Gallery, National University of Singapore and the Zoo), Singapore
The Third Asian Art Show (Painting), Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan
1989-90 Dancing by the Ponds and Sunrise at the Vegetable Farm (Performance), The Time Show – 24 Hours Continuous Performance Show, The Artist Village, Singapore
1990 The Death of the Philipino Maid (Performance) Singapore Festival of Arts Fringe 1990, Shell Theatrette, Singapore
Stop That Tank – One Year Anniversary of June 4th (Performance) Singapore
Festival of Arts Fringe 1990, PUB Auditorium, Singapore
Noah’s Ark for Plants (Performance) Singapore Festival of Arts Fringe 1990, Wisma Atria, Singapore
Serious Conversations (Performance) Singapore Festival of Arts Fringe 1990, Raffles Place, Singapore
T or P? That is The Question (Performance at The Arts for Nature – Exhibition Commemorating World Environment Day), The Empress Place Museum, Singapore
1990-99 North-East Monsoon – A Water Game (Project), Singapore and others
1991 Tiger’s Whip (Performance at National Museum & Chinatown, Singapore; and Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan)
Four Persons in One Suit, in the Streets of Singapore (Performance), A Sculpture Seminar, National Museum, Singapore
The Ark For Plants (Performance at the Tree Celebration), The Substation, Singapore
Chinese Restaurant II (Performance at the National Sculpture Exhibition), National Museum, Singapore
World’s Number One Pet Shop (Performance at National Sculpture Exhibition), National Museum, Singapore
Just In Case (Performance at National Sculpture Exhibition), National Museum, Singapore
Switch Off The Lights, Please (Performance at Raw Theatre I), The Substation, Singapore
Asian Artist Today – Fukuoka Annual V: Tang Da Wu Exhibition, Fukuoka Art Museum, Japan (They Poach the Rhino, Chop Off His Horn and Make This Drink; In the End, My Mother Decided to Eat Dogfood and Catfood; and Tiger’s Whip)
1992 Under The Table All Going One Direction, New Art From Southeast Asia 1992, Tokyo Metropolitan Artspace / Fukuoka Art Museum/ Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art/ Kirin Plaza Osaka, Japan
1993 Who Owns The Cock (Performance at Baguio Arts Festival), Philippines
And He Return Home When You Least Expected (Performance at the 2nd ASEAN Workshop, Exhibition and Symposium on Aesthetics), The Philippines
1994 Sorry Whale I Didn’t Know That You Were In My Camera (Creativity in Asian Art Now, Part 3 – Asian Installation Work) Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Contemporary Shopping (Sculpture), Faret Tachikawa, Tokyo
Colours Don’t Help, Artist Against AIDS, Singapore
No! I Don’t Want Any Black Monsoon (Performance), Mojosongo, Solo, Indonesia
1994-95 Tapioca Friendship Project, Osaka International Peace Centre, Japan and Singapore
1995 Meeting With The real Chiang Maian (Performance at the 3rd Chiang Mai Social Installation), Chiang Mai, Thailand
I was Born Japanese (Performance), Mojosongo, Solo, Indonesia
Don’t Buy Present For Your Mother On Mother’s Day (Performance), The Substation, Singapore
Don’t Give Money To the Arts (Performance), Asian International Art Exhibition, National Museum Art Gallery and Singapore Art ’95, Suntec City, Singapore
1996 Root Sculpture (Sculpture) Nano International Artist’s Camp ’96, Nanao, Japan
One Hand Prayer Project, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Japan
Subject Matter (project), Great Britain, Japan, Malaysia and Singapore
Life in A Tin (project), Singapore, Malaysia and others
Rubber Road No U-Turn (project), Singapore, Malaysia and others
1999 Don’t Worry Ancestors (Project), Singapore
Life In A Tin, The First Fukuoka Asian Art Triennale, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan
2000 Tapioca Friendship, Kwanju Biennale , Korea
2001 Under A Banna Leaf, Echigo Tsumarigo, Japan
2002 Singapore Pools- Water Games (Project), Singapore
2003 Many Heads and Local Heroes (Project), Singapore
2004 Satsuma Brilliance, Stained-glass sculpture, Kirishima Open Air Museum
Interakcje (Performance), Trybunalski, Poland
2005 Your Head, Your Mother’s Gallery, Singapore |
