Cai Guo-Qiang is a Chinese artist who currently lives and works in New York City and New Jersey. Cai Guo-Qiang's work crosses multiple mediums including drawing, installation, explosion event, and performance. Drawing upon Eastern philosophy and contemporary social issues as a conceptual basis, his artworks respond to culture and history and establish an exchange between viewers and the larger universe around them. His explosion art and installations are imbued with a force that transcends the two-dimensional plane to engage with society and nature. [Wikipedia]