About Me

CHAOLUN BAATAR -FORMERLY CB-ART STUDIO

CHAOLUN BAATAR BORN IN A GROTTO & A WARTIME IN INNER MONGOLIA

Chaolun Baatar born in Inner Mongolia who has devoted himself to bringing the spirit of Mongolia to America, as recipient of a special talent visa. Trained in European traditional oil paintings. His paintings feature ferocity and has a strong desire to represent things and life;with impulses of the entire body that finally result in the state of artistic creation. Baatar lives and works in New York, USA since 1994. -Emerging Collector Gallery, SoHo New York. April 4,1999

EDUCATION

1997 Computer Art, NYU New York, NY
1992 Oil Painting Dept, Central Fine Arts Academy of Beijing, China
1982 M.F.A., Oil Painting Dept, Central University of the Nationalities, Beijing
1978 B.F.A., Central University of the Nationalities, Beijing, China

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 The Art Museum of Chang Liu, Taipei. Taiwan
2008 The Museum of City University of New York
2008 A Lecture for Art college of Teacher University, Taiwan
2008 A Lecture for Arts & Design Institute of Tsnhua University
2008 The Culture Center Hall, Macau
2008 Maysan Art Center, Iraq
2006 Long Island City Artist Open Studio Program, New York
2006 The Third Burning Toono, Earthwork, Mountain of Khazuurt
____ Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2006 An Art lecture, BookStore, Seoul, Korea
2006 Chashama Art Foundation Gallery, NY, NY
2005 The Second Burning Toono, Earthwork, Derljee, Mongolia
2005 The City Art Gallery, Taipei. Taiwan
2003 The National Art Center of Kaoshing, Taiwan
2003 Crystal Foundation Art Gallery, NY, NY
2002 Chashama Art Foundation Gallery, NY, NY
2002 The First Burning Toono, Earthwork, Inner Mongolia, China
2001 Indiana University, UIM Gallery, Indiana
2001 The National Art Center, Taipei. Taiwan
2001 Chang Liu Art Gallery, Taipei. Taiwan
2001 International Society, Tremont Gallery, Boston
2000 ARTSFORM Gallery, 57th St. New York, NY
1998 Synchronicity Space Gallery, Soho, New York, NY
1997 Jacques Marchais Museum of Tibetan Art, Staten Island, NY
1997 "10th Annual Genghis Khan Ceremony", Rutgers University, NJ
1996 Embassy of Mongolia, Beijing 1996 Embassy of Australia, Beijing
1995 Art - 1 Gallery, New York, NY
1994 "7th Annual Genghis Khan Ceremony", Rutgers University, NJ
1993 Gallery 13, Hong Kong
1992 Gallery 13, Hong Kong
1991 The National Museum of Fine Arts, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
1988 The National Museum of Fine Arts, Beijing
1984 Art Center of Hohhot City, Inner Mongolia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Including in Museums and Art Galleries in Taiwan, The Aty Center Hall, Macau, Barcelona, Tokyo, Mexico City, Ceres Gallery, Emerging Collector Gallery in New York , Los Angeles and San Francisco and more...

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Genghis Khan Museum, Ordos, Inner Mongolia
National Museum of Fine Arts, Inner Mongolia
11th Asian Olympic Games, Beijing, China
The Foreign Affairs Dept. Amsterdam, Holland
The Japanese Writers Association, Tokyo, Japan
The University of Barcelona, Spain
National Museum of Fine Arts, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
WHO, the United Nations, New York, USA
SBC International INC., Texas, USA
Embassy of Mongolia, Beijing, China
Embassy of Australia, Beijing, China
The Medical School of the New York University, New York, USA
The Mongol-American Cultural Association, NJ, USA
The Red Cross of the New York, NY, USA
SRT Software Company, New York, NY The Red Cross, New York, NY
The Museum of Fine Arts Chang Liu, Taipei, Taiwan, Maysan Art Center, Iraq.

CHAOLUN BAATAR'S ART WORLD

...The robust vital organisms glow in his painting, rendering life to mountains and revers and intelligence to nature. The resss emotitleonal impulses render his paintings imposing power and the strong physique of his human figures imparts a mystery to life and nature. More over his success lies in his ever changing techniques.

Synchronicity Space Gallery
Chaolun Baatar New Paintings

December 1-3 Jan 1999 New York

Brings Art Down To Earth
by Richard O ’brien

For Chaolun Baatar, the attacks of September 11 inspired a new artistic paradigm. “Art has typically been something appreciated in—and confined to—studios and galleries,” he said. “After 9/11, I felt the need to bring cultures together through the universal experience of nature and the environment. In an artistic transition from canvas to land, my focus shifted to ‘Earthworks’.”

Baatar’s Earthworks, as well as the work of three other respected Mongolian artists, were on display July 30 at the Crystal Foundation Art Gallery reception for “Beyond Border—Mongolian Art Exhibition.” Baatar’s premier Earthwork, or “Land Art,” is called ”Skylight Toono,” and is displayed on video for gallery visitors. The film “Skylight Toono” exhibits a mesmerizing circle of fire on the ground—a 50-meter-diameter, wheel-shaped configuration whose media are dry leaves and gasoline.

As the first leaves are ignited, music especially composed for Baatar plays in the background. The outer circle is meant to suggest our planet itself, while the intersecting vertical and horizontal axes joined by an inner circle represent unity for mankind. “Though ‘Skylight Toono’ has the look of a fiery wheel, I want the viewer to see it more as an illuminating window—a view into nature and the spirituality of our lives,” Baatar said.

The video goes on to Baatar’s “The Desolate Tree,” which pans over the contorted branches of a dead tree as an allegory for the grotesque potential of a neglected environment.

Chaolun Baatar graduated from the Oil Painting Department of the Central Institute of Nationalities in Beijing in 1982. Later, he completed a postgraduate program of oil painting in Beijing’s Central Institute of Fine Arts. His subsequent career in abstract oil painting has been internationally acclaimed. In 2000, Manhattan art historian and writer D.F. Colman wrote of Baatar: “The mysterious aspect of each work is the psychic residue left between the ineffable distance of conscious reality and unconscious processes of recording the beauty of [his] painterly application. This is the gift which this artist so provocatively brings to the world and it stems from a rare discernment and the capacity to see beyond sight’s everyday parameters.”
Since changing his artistic focus to Earthworks, Baatar has exhibited his burning Skylight Toono in New York, Washington, Beijing, Inner Mongolia and Taiwan. The exhibit is scheduled to appear over the next three years in South America, Australia, Europe, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Africa and as an “ice-sealed skylight” at the top of the Himalayas.

The most exciting Land Art creation—Baatar’s longtime dream—is set for 2006: “Skylight—Horses Toono.” In this unique project, the artist will film 800 Mongolian horses from a helicopter through a giant, burning Toono of the kind featured in his video art and oil paintings. He is scheduling the event in conjunction with the 800-year anniversary of the Mongolian Empire.

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