Hong Kong Art: Visual Archive
| Aranita, Jeffrey du Vallier d'Aragon | |||
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| Place of birth: French Polynesia | |||
| Dates: 1954- | |||
| Art Medium: installation,painting,photography,printmaking | |||
| Of French, Japanese, and Polynesian descent, and living between Hong Kong, New York, and Nice, France, Aranita is a painter and fine art photographer. Apprenticed to a woodcut artist for eight years in a Zen temple in Japan after being orphaned as a child, he later studied photography with Ansel Adams and Minor White in America. A former newswire war correspondent, banker, and university professor, Aranita was educated at the University of Hawaii, Columbia University, the New School for Social Research, and the University of East Anglia. In private collections internationally, Aranita was awarded the Sovereign Contemporary Asian Art Award in 2004. | |||
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| To Conquer the West (1979) photography, silver print size unknown | Death ray, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (1979) photography, silver print size unknown | Seine Quay (1983) mixed media, mineral pigment on photographic print size unknown | Fo Tan (1997) photography, digital pigment print size unknown |
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| Wan Chai (2001) painting, mineral pigment on wood size unknown | Bus Stop Sign, Hunghom (2001) colour photography size unknown | Yau Ma Tei (2001) mixed media, mineral paint on photographic print size unknown | Night Moves (2002) digital movie 30 mins. |
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| Moonrise Over Tai Ping Shan (2003) painting, mineral pigment on board size unknown | Factory 3, Cheung Sha Wan (2003) painting, mineral pigment on wood size unknown | Tiananmen (2003) painting, mineral pigment on canvas size unknown | Route 2, Yau Ma Tei (2003) painting, mineral pigment on board size unknown |
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| SARS billboard, Hunghom (2003) colour photography size unknown | Kowloon City (2004) mineral pigment on board size unknown | Nice, France (2004) painting, mineral pigment on wood size unknown | Sheung Wan (2004) painting, mineral pigment on paper size unknown |
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| Suzhou (2004) painting, mineral pigment on board size unknown | Terminus, Hunghom (2004) colour photography size unknown | ||
| No full-text material currently exists for this artist. Please check bibliography database for other possible material on any given artist. | |||
| Contact the artist: aranita@paris.com | |||
| Official artist website: http://www.atelieraranita.com | |||
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Last updated: 3 July, 2020.