| C. J. Yao | ||
| Birth Date: 1941 |
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| Death Date: 2001 Artist Gallery |
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| C. J. Yao was born in Taichung, Taiwan, 1941. In 1965, Yao graduated from the National Taiwan Normal University. He won an Honor Award at the Fifth International Youth Artist Exhibition in Tokyo in 1969. In 1970, he participated in the tenth Biennale International in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Yao Ching-Chang moved to the US in 1970 and began his surrealism paintings becoming an important representative artist from Taiwan.
Yao started to devote his energies to Photo-Realist creations and between 1974 and 1984, his main interest was in urban life and environment. The United Nations had invited Yao to lecture in China and as a result Yao was able to introduce Photorealism to China. He was also the first generation of Asian American artist's in New York.
In 2000 he passed away due to a disease and in 2001, a commemorating exhibition was held at the Taipei National Museum of History.
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