id: 374035 accession number: 2019.307 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/2019.307 updated: 2023-05-24 11:06:39.210000 Hello Mr. Hong, 1998. Hong Hao (Chinese, b. 1965). Chromogenic print; paper: 73.7 x 61 cm (29 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Richard Born 2019.307 title: Hello Mr. Hong title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1998 creation date earliest: 1998 creation date latest: 1998 current location: creditline: Gift of Richard Born copyright: --- culture: China, 20th century technique: Chromogenic print department: Photography collection: PH - Misc. 20th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Hong Hao (Chinese, b. 1965) - artist --- measurements: Paper: 73.7 x 61 cm (29 x 24 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: Edition of 15 support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE Hong Hao (the artist) date: footnotes: citations: (Karen Smith, Beijing, China) date: footnotes: citations: Richard Born Collection, New York, NY date: c. 2004-06 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: December 2, 2019 footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: There were hardly any galleries selling contemporary art in China until the early 1990s. digital 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. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES