Cai Guo-Qiang in 2024. Photo by Kenryou Gu, courtesy of Cai Studio. Coming to life on March 29 over the Potomac River outside the Kennedy Center, the work will pair large-scale projections ...

Artist Cai Guo-Qiang’s fireworks performance, titled “We Are: Explosion Event,” includes pyrotechnics set off among the seats of the L.A. Coliseum, with an audience of about 5,000 people ...

Cai Guo-Qiang Speaks About Disastrous PST ART Fireworks Display, Controversy in Israel Over West Bank Archaeology Bill: Morning Links for October 4, 2024 ...

A daytime fireworks display by artist Cai Guo-Qiang at the Los Angeles Coliseum was supposed to be a joyful celebration. Instead falling debris injured a few guests, and the noise and smoke ...

Cai Guo Qiang has been featured in articles for Observer, Ocula and ARTnews. The most recent article is Art Basel 2025: sales across all sectors signal market resilience written for Art Basel Stories ...

Gunpowder, fireworks and attention-grabbing installations mark Cai Guo-Qiang as one of the world's biggest and brightest artists.

Cai Guo Qiang, “Remembrance,” chapter two of Elegy, an explosion event for the opening of “Cai Guo-Qiang: The Ninth Wave,” realized on the riverfront of the Power Station of Art, August 8 ...

The documentary "Sky Ladder", Cai Guo-Qiang's most ambitious project to-date, is now on Netflix. Courtesy of Cai Studio/Netflix "The Century with Mushroom Clouds: Project for the 20th Century ...

Cai Guo-Qiang, Crop Circles (2012). Photo: Wyatt Conlon, courtesy The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Of late, the new technological frontier represents as much an unseen world for Cai.

While other artists turn to the easel with paint or pastels, Cai Guo-Qiang prefers to make a statement with explosives.