Author: Chaolun Baatar
Died: 07/16
Bio: Settled down as international “Artist of Extraordinary Ability” in the United States in 1995 at the invitation of the United States Government, which granted Baatar a special talent visa. Has held dozens of solo and joint exhibitions and received numerous awards and honors. Since the 1970s and 80s, Baatar has devoted much of his creative efforts to incorporating the abstract structures of the Mongolian yurt (or ger) into his skylight installations, a move that enabled him to engineer a real breakthrough in his expressive means and introduce a new concept to the field of modern art and aesthetics. In recent years, Baatar has produced an entire series of “yurt skylight installations,” multi-media works that combine visual structures with music and other aural elements. In addition, the artist toured the world with a series of widely noted lectures at universities, museums and art galleries (incl. Indian University, the City University of New York, Beijing Tsinghua University, The National University of Teacher college Taiwan, and the National University of Mongolia).