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Collection Online as of April 25, 2024

Hello Mr. Hong

Hello Mr. Hong

1998
(Chinese, b. 1965)
China, 20th century
Chromogenic print
Paper: 73.7 x 61 cm (29 x 24 in.)
Gift of Richard Born 2019.307
© Hong Hao
Location: not on view

Did You Know?

There were hardly any galleries selling contemporary art in China until the early 1990s.

Description

By the end of the 1990s, as the market for contemporary Chinese art began to grow, so did the ambitions of the artists. Abandoning the collective goals of the communist era, they sought to promote themselves and their art in the competitive global marketplace. Critiquing this commodification, Hong Hao used digital processing to insert his own elegantly dressed image, along with text, into commercial photographs of luxurious environments, advertising himself as suitable for the sophisticated Western art world.
  • Hong Hao (the artist)
    (Karen Smith, Beijing, China)
    c. 2004-06
    Richard Born Collection, New York, NY
    December 2, 2019
    The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
  • {{cite web|title=Hello Mr. Hong|url=false|author=Hong Hao|year=1998|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2019.307