Biography - Gordon Cheung
Born 1975 London– lives and works in London | http://www.gordoncheung.com
Education
| 1999-2001 | Royal College of Art - MA Fine Art Painting |
| 1995-1998 | Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design - BA(Hons) Fine Art in Painting |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2011 | The Light that Burns Twice as Bright, Alan Cristea Gallery, London |
| 2010 |
The Sleeper Awakes, Other Gallery, Shanghai, China Altered States, Arizona State University Museum, USA (curated by Heather Lineberry/Marilyn Zeitlin) |
| 2009 |
Gordon Cheung, ROOM Artspace, London The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall UK The Promised Land, Jack Shainman Gallery New York Volta NY, Solo presentation with Unosunove Gallery and Galerie Adler |
| 2008 |
Wilderness of Mirrors, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt, Germany Death By a Thousand Cuts, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester The Fall of the Rebel Angels, Alan Cristea Gallery, London Gordon Cheung, Kirkby Gallery, Liverpool, UK |
| 2007 |
God is on Our Side, Unosunove Gallery, Rome Italy (curated by Raffaella Guidobono) Paradise Lost, Laing Art Solo Commission, Newcastle (selected by Susan May) The 1000 Yard Stare, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth UK Gordon Cheung – Recent Paintings, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK |
| 2006 | Heart of Darkness, Thomas Cohn Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil (cat.) |
| 2003 | Hollow Sunsets, Houldsworth Gallery, London |
| 2002 | Sprawl, DomoBaal Gallery, London |
Selected Exhibitions
| 2011 |
40 ARTISTS - 80 DRAWINGS,The Burton Art Gallery and Museum, Biddeford, Devon UK Future Can Wait, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA From Here to Eternity, Larm Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark John Martin, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle – co-curated by Tate and Tyne and Wear Archive and Museums John Martin – Painting the Apocalypse, Millenium Gallery, Sheffield – co-curated by Tate and Tyne and Wear Archive and Museums Public Enemy Number 1, Exhibit 320, New Dehli, India (curated by Shaheen Merali) Difference Engine Manifestation III, Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center, New York USA 1, Edel Assanti Gallery, London |
| 2010 |
400 Women, Shoreditch Town Hall, London (touring internationally) Recent aquisitions, Knoxville Art Museum, Tennessee, USA Wasteland, White Box, New York (curated by Raul Zamudio) We the Artists, National Museum and Art Gallery, Trinadad and Tobago (curated by Nicolette Ramirez) Public Enemy Number 1, Exhibit 320, new Dehli India (curated by Shaheen Merali) Saving Africa's Witch Children, Saatchi Gallery (charity event) Novelles du Jour, Galerie JTM, Paris France Can you Hear it, Nunnery Gallery, London UK curated by Franko B Difference Engine: Manifestation II, The Black Mariah/Triskel Eleven, Alan Cristea Gallery, London Premio Lissone, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lissone, Italy The Pavilion of Realism, Other Gallery, Shanghai and Beijing, China Reich Sein, Künstlerverein Walkmühle e.V., Wiesbaden, Germany Resurrectine, The Feldman Gallery, New York, USA Difference Engine: Manifestation II, The Black Mariah/Triskel, Ireland 501 UP, Zero Gallery, London UK Can you Hear it, Nunnery Gallery, London UK curated by Franko B SURFACE WARP FACTOR, The Aubin Gallery, London UK Curated by Fieldgate Gallery Beijing Biennale, Beijing Museum, China Superunknown, Edel Assanti Gallery, London UK |
| 2009 |
The Future Can Wait, Truman Brewery, London – Curated by Ellis Rumley Productions Gordon Cheung and Jonathan Seliger, Nassau Museum of Art, New York PS: Parsing Spirituality, Affirmation Arts, New York City, USA Curated by Micaela Giovannotti Projections, Carré d'Art - Museum of Contemporary Art, Nimes France Unfold, Nettie Horn Gallery, London Fault Line - Art in the Age of Anxiety, Nunnery Gallery, curated by Sarah Elson Drawing Biennale 2009, Drawing Room Gallery, London Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture, Curated by Jessica Hough and Mónica Ramírez-Montagut, Mills College Art Museum, California USA New London School, Galerie Schuster, Berlin - curated by Zavier Ellis and Simon Rumley 40 Artists - 80 Drawings, The Drawing Gallery, Shropshire UK Fresh out of the box, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall UK Lure and Seducer, Gallery Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark R O O M Collaborators, ROOM Gallery, London Reconstructing the Old House, The Nunnery Gallery, London (curated by Benet Spencer – UK tour) The Art of Survival, Human Rights Art Auction event, Maddox Arts, London |
| 2008 |
Maddox Arts Summer Show, Maddox Arts, London UK The Golden Record, Collective Gallery, Edingburgh Scotland FUTUREBLUEPERFECT - Cafe Gallery Projects, London - Clare Goodwin & Liz Murray Éigse Carlow Arts Festival 2008 - We Don't Need Nobody Else - Curated by Rob Lowe ZAVIER ELLIS & SIMON RUMLEY PRESENT: 'NEW LONDON SCHOOL', Mark Moore Gallery, LA, US JERWOOD CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS, Jerwood Space, Union Street, London - touring UK (cat.) Psychadelic, San Antonio Art Museum, Texas USA (Curated by David S. Rubin (cat.))* Painting the Glass House, Aldrich Museum and Yale Museum, Connecticut, USA (Curated: Jessica Hough and Monica Ramirez Montagut (cat.)) |
| 2007 |
Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington USA - Curated by Anne Ellegood Art Basel 38, Switzerland, Alan Cristea Gallery , London STILL LIFE, STILL, T 1+2 Gallery, London UK - Curated by Hugh Mendes THE FUTURE CAN WAIT - The Atlantis gallery, London UK The Lucifer Effect, Gallery Primo Alonso, London UK - Curated by Gordon Cheung Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London UK Second Life, Portman Gallery, London - Curated by Dean Kenning Detour, The Arts Director Club, New York - Curated by Raffaella Guidobono Drawing from History: Permanent Collection and Loans, ASU Art Museum, Arizona USA Fash n Riot, Photographer's Gallery, London Drawing 2007, Drawingroom Project, Tannery, London UK Blood Meridian, Michael Janssen Galerie, Berlin, Germany (Curated by David Hunt) Arrivals/Departures, URBIS Museum, Manchester (Curated: Sally Lai and Yuen Fong Ling) Near Dark, Donna Beam Gallery, Las Vegas USA (Curated by Neal Rock) New Life and the Dream Garden, Fieldgate Gallery, London UK |
| 2006 |
Alan Cristea Editions, Alan Cristea Gallery, London (cat.) M*A*S*H, Design district, Miami (Curated by David Hunt and Michael Sellinger) Fresh, Museum of Glass – Centre of Contemporary Art, Washington, USA (Curated: Juli Cho (cat.)) John Moores 24 Painting Prize Finalist, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Biennial, UK (Selected by Tracey Emin, Sir Peter Blake, Jason Brookes, Ann Bukantas and Andrea Rose) The Stars Down to Earth, Nunnery Gallery, London (Curated by Andrew Hunt (cat.)) 10th Planet, A04 Business Complex, London (Curated by Julian Hughes Watts) Stéphane Janssen: The Collector, Amarillo Museum of Art, Texas, USA ASU Collection, Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, USA Continental Breakfast, Umetnostna Galerija Maribor Museum, Slovenia Jerusalem, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax (Curated by David Hancock) Crave, Rawspace, London (Curated by Raffaella Guidobono) The Sleep of Reason, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland Broken Romanticism, Standpoint Gallery (Curated by Steve Walter) Drawing 200, Drawingroom Project, Tannery, London |
| 2005 |
BRITISH ART SHOW 6, BALTIC, Gateshead (Touring UK – Curated by Alex Farquharson and Andrea Schlieker; organised by Hayward Gallery (cat.)) New London Kicks, Wooster Projects, New York (Curated by Simon Rumley and Ed Burke) Art News, Raid Projects, LA NLK (in association with Armory Show), Soho House, New York ARCO Art Fair - Independents, Houldsworth Gallery, Madrid (Curated by Contemporary Magazine) Faux Realism, Royal Academy Pumphouse Gallery, London |
| 2004 |
Caution: Uneven Surfaces, Temporary Contemporary, London Art News, Three Colts Gallery, London Zoo Art Fair, London (with Flaca Gallery) Thermo 04, Lowry Museum, Salford Le Petit Paysage, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool (Toured UK nationally) Apopalyptical, Houldsworth Gallery, London Collage, Bloomberg Space, London |
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2003 |
Yes, I am a Long Way from Home, Nunnery, London (cat.) Toured: Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland Intervention, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton Drawing 100, Drawingroom Project, Tannery, London (feat. Julian Opie, Paul Noble, Langlands and Bell, Rachel Whiteread and others) Trans-, Kyoto Art Centre, Japan ArtFutures, Contemporary Art Society, London Portal-, Studio J, Osaka, Japan |
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2002 |
Unscene, Gasworks, London (cat.) |
| 2001 | CD1, Marlborough Fine Arts, London (cat.) |
| 2000 | Assembly, Stepney City, London – Curator and organiser (cat.) |
Awards and Residencies
| 2010 | Premio Lissone Finalist, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lissone, Italy |
| 2007 | Artes Mundi Prize 3 Nomination, Selected by Isabel Carlos and Bisi Silva |
| 2006 |
Braziers International Artists Workshop, UK (cat.) DeciBel Award Finalist, Judges: Okwui Enwezor, David Thorp, Sally Tallant, and others |
| 2005 |
Hong Kong and China Research Research Trip - Funded by ACE and A-n Arts Council of England Individual Arts Award |
| 2004 |
BOC Emerging Artist Award Finalist - (Selected by Sarah kent, Karen Wright, Marcus Harvey, Roy Exley) Pizza Express Prospects Prize Finalist, Tea Building, London (Selected by Tim Marlow, Fiona Bradley, Simon Groom, Graham Gussin and Rachel Lowe) Jerwood Drawing Prize Finalist – (Toured UK (cat.)) Breathe Residency, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester |
| 2003 |
Triangle Arts Trust International Artist Fellowship- Nominated by Gasworks Gallery VASL Residency, Pakistan (cat.) Arts Council England International Art Award British Council International Arts Award Diffuse Asia, Kyoto Art Centre Residency, Japan Lexmark European Painting Prize Finalist, London |
| 2000 |
Socrates Travel Award for Berlin John Minton Travel Award for Paris TI Travel Award for Budapest Paris Studio Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris The Gilchrist-Fisher Award Finalist, Rhg, London (inc catalogue) |
| 1999 | Space Studio Residency 98/99, Space Studios, Old Street, London |
| 1998 |
Arte Viva, Residency and competition - Painting First PrizeWinner, Italy (Judges: Enzo Cucchi and Pomodoro Giacometti) |
Selected Bibliography
| 02.2008 | From Modern Economy to Ancient Mythology, Aesthetica Magazine, Shona Fairweather profile |
| 02.2008 | Gordon Cheung curated by Kohei Nawa, Dazed and Confused Japan |
| 25.1.2008 | City Life, Channel M, Robert Hudson - TV interview |
| 1.2008 | 'Paradise Lost and the Unknown Rebel', Helen Water's essay for 'Fall of he Rebel Angels (solo show) at Alan Cristea Gallery |
| 11.2007 | 'GOD IS ON OUR SIDE', Essay by Raffaella Guidobono for solo exhibition at Galleria 1/9 unosunove arte contemporanea |
| 8.2007 | 'Chimera Angles', Martin Holman essay for '1000 Yard Stare (solo show), Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth UK |
| 9.1.07 | 'Cyberman Who Fell to Earth', Times T2, Laura Gasgoigne |
| 11.05 | 'Gordon Cheung', Dazed and Confused, vol.2 issue 32, p.34, Iphgenia Baal (image featured) |
| 11.10.05 | 'British Art Show 6', Channel 5 presented by Tim Marlow |
| 7.10.05 | 'British Art Show 6', Newsnight Review, BBC2 |
| 9.2005 | 'Gordon Cheung', I-d Magazine p.98, Charlie Danby (image featured) |
| 6.6.2005 | 'As Hirst hits 40, meet new faces of UK Art Scene', The Independent p.3, Arifa Akbar (image featured) |
| 1.2005 | 'Gordon Cheung', Flash Art no.240 p.72, Roy Exley (image featured) |
| 10.2004 | 'Gordon Cheung', Financial Times Weekend magazine, Jackie Wullschlager (image featured) |
| 5.2004 | 'Breathing Space', City life, Tim Birch (image featured) |
| 5.2004 | 'Gordon Cheung', Metro (Manchester), (image featured) |
| 5.2004 | 'Pizza Express Prospects Prize', Metro (London), Fisun Guner (image featured) |
| 5.2004 | 'Collage', Contemporary Magazine |
| 5.2004 | 'Apopolyptical', Art Monthly, David Barrett (image featured) |
| 5.2004 | 'Collage' Art Monthly, Eliza Williams |
| 5.2004 | 'Collage', Kultureflash |
| 10.2003 | 'Intervention', Gaurdian The Guide (image featured) |
| 4.2003 | 'Yes I am a Long Way from Home', Contemporary |
| 4.2003 | 'Yes I am a Long Way from Home', Art Monthly, Sara Harrison (image featured) |
| 4.2003 | 'Yes I am a Long Way from Home' Time Out, Sarah Kent |
| 4.2003 | 'Yes I am a Long Way from Home' Art Review |
| 7.2002 | 'Gordon Cheung', Radio interview, The Glass Shrimp, Resonace FM |
| 7.2002 | 'Gordon Cheung', What's On |
| 7.2002 | 'Gordon Cheung', Time Out Website, Arts |
| 5.6.2002 | 'Unscene', Gasworks Gallery, Modern Painters |
| 30.4.2002 | 'Unscene', Gasworks Gallery, The Gaurdian - The Guide, Jessica Lack |
| 24.4.2002 | 'Unscene', Gasworks Gallery, Time Out, no.1653, Jane Tynan |
| 13.3.2002 | 'Wellworth', Keith Talent Gallery, Time Out, no.1647, Martin Herbert |
| 2001 | 'Class of 2001 -Top 20 MA Graduates', Art Review supplement |
| 6.2001 | Surviving in the Arts, BBC Radio, London |
| 4.6.2001 | 'Lessons in the art of survival', The Daily Telegraph, Will Bennett |
| 27.12.2000 | Assembly - The Best Art Shows of 2000, The Big Issue, no.418, Helen Sumpter |
| 11.2000 | 'Fakescape', Frieze, no.55, Neal Brown (see also www.frieze.com) |
| 11.2000 | 'Fakescape', Flash Art |
| 18.10.2000 | 'Assembly', Time Out, no.1574 |
| 1.10.2000 | 'Go See..Assembly', The Observer Magazine |
| 4.8.2000 | 'Fakescape', The Guardian, London, Jonathon Jones |
| 23.8.2000 | 'Fakescape', Time Out, London, Izi Glover |
Selected Collections
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA
Whitworth Art Museum, Manchester UK
ASU Art Museum, Arizona, USA
Knoxville Art Museum, Tennessee, USA
New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
Speed Art Museum, Kentucky USA
Progressive Arts Collection, USA
UBS Collection, London UK
Hiscox Collection, London UK
Royal College of Art, London UK
Central Saint Martins University of Arts, London UK
Stephane Janssen
Imogen and Elspeth Turner Collection
Noam Gottesman
Mikki Weithorn
Patrick Duffy and Wally Goodman
Peter Noble
Mimi Floback
Richard Akagawa
Plus various international private and corporate collections.