Guo-Qiang, Cai

Cai Guo-Qiang was born in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, in 1957. He has lived and worked outside of China since 1986, first in Japan and subsequently, beginning in 1995, in New York City. Cai Guo-Qiang has been appointed Director of Visual and Special Effects, and is a core member of the creative team, for the opening and closing ceremonies of the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics, which will take place in Herzog and de Meuron's highly anticipated stadium complex and will be televised to an estimated audience of four billion people, globally.