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Gordon Cheung

Born 1975 in London to Chinese parents, contemporary multi-media artist Gordon Cheung has developed an innovative approach to making art, which blurs virtual and actual reality to reflect on the existential questions of what it means to be human in civilisations with histories written by victors. Cheung raises questions and critique’s the effects of global capitalism, its underlying mechanisms of power on our perception of identity, territory and sense of belonging. These narratives are refracted through the prisms of culture, mythology, religion, and politics into dreamlike spaces of urban surreal worlds that are rooted in his in-between identity.

Cheung graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in 1998 from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London and earned his Masters of Fine Arts in 2001 from the Royal College of Art in London. Select solo shows include Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall UK, The Light that Burns Twice as Bright, Alan Cristea Gallery, London UK, Here Be Dragons, Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK and New Order Vanitas, Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, West Palm Beach, FL, USA. His works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., the Whitworth Art Museum in Manchester, Royal College of Art in London, and the British Museum, amongst others. He lives and works in London.

 

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Selected artworks

  • Gordon Cheung,                                      Arrow to Heaven, 2022

    Gordon Cheung Arrow to Heaven, 2022

    Financial Times newspaper, archival inkjet, acrylic, and sand on linen
    150 x 200 x 3 cm
    59 1/2 x 78 1/2 x 1 1/2 in

  • Gordon Cheung,                                      Gardens of Perfect Brightness, 2022

    Gordon Cheung Gardens of Perfect Brightness, 2022

    Financial Times newspaper, archival inkjet, acrylic, and sand on linen
    200 x 150 x 3 cm
    78 1/2 x 59 1/2 x 1 1/2 in

  • Gordon Cheung,                                      Augury of Beijing, 2022

    Gordon Cheung Augury of Beijing, 2022

    Financial Times newspaper, archival inkjet, acrylic, and sand on linen
    82 x 57 cm
    32 1/2 x 22 1/2 in

  • Gordon Cheung,                                      Heavenly Lake  , 2022

    Gordon Cheung Heavenly Lake , 2022

    Financial Times newspaper, archival inkjet, acrylic, and sand on linen
    150 x 200 x 3 cm
    59 1/2 x 78 1/2 x 1 1/2 in

  • Gordon Cheung,                                      Heavens Collide, 2022

    Gordon Cheung Heavens Collide, 2022

    Financial Times newspaper, archival inkjet, acrylic, and sand on linen
    150 x 200 x 3 cm
    59 1/2 x 78 1/2 x 1 1/2 in

  • Gordon Cheung,                                      Window M #61, ,  2020

    Gordon Cheung Window M #61, , 2020

    Financial Times newspaper, bamboo and adhesive
    69.5 x 49 x 2 cm
    27 1/2 x 19 1/2 x 1 in

Gallery exhibitions

Museum exhibitions

Selected press