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Yancey Richardson is pleased to present East Meets West, a selection of photographic self-portraits made between 1979 and 1989 by Tseng Kwong Chi (1950 - 1990). Combining performance and photography, political satire and personal identity, Tseng’s pioneering series exemplifies the art of the eighties while anticipating the social, political and philosophical themes of the present day.

Born in Hong Kong and raised in Vancouver by exiled Chinese nationalists, Tseng studied photography at L'Académie Julian in Paris. In 1978, Tseng moved to Manhattan, becoming a fixture of New York’s downtown …