Gordon Cheung

Gordon Cheung

Gordon Cheung is of Hong Kong origin and born in London 1975 where he lives and works.

Cheung’s paintings capture the hallucinations between the virtual and actual realities of a globalised world oscillating between Utopia and Dystopia. Spray paint, oil, acrylic, pastels, stock listings and ink collide in his works to form epic techno-sublime vistas.

Cheung graduated from the Royal College of Art, 2001 and whilst a student he instigated and was the organiser of Assembly exhibiting 172 MA art graduates in 2 disused Victorian school buildings (Catalogue available on request).

He exhibits internationally and was in the largest and most ambitious survey of recent developments in art from the UK;The British Art Show 6 and The John Moores Painting 24.He was commissioned for a Laing Art Solo Award (Selected bySusan May) July 2007. 2009 solo shows will be at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, Volta NYC, New York and The New Art Gallery Walsall UK

Cheung's works are in international public and private collections including the Hirshhorn Museum, Whitworth Museum, ASU Art Museum, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Hiscox Collection and UBS Collection.

Collections

Hirshhorn Museum of Art and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA

Whitworth Art Museum, Manchester UK

ASU Art Museum, Arizona, USA

The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall UK

UBS Collection, London UK

Hiscox Collection

Royal College of Art

Central Saint Martins University of Arts

Stephane Janssen Collection

Mikki and Stanley Weithorn Collection

Patrick Duffy and Wally Goodman

Imogen and Elspeth Collection

Peter Noble

Mimi Floback

Richard Akagawa

Darian Leader

Plus various international private and corporate collections.

Solo Exhibitions

2008 Gordon Cheung, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York USA*

Gordon Cheung, Walsall Art Gallery, Walsall UK (cat)*

Volta NYC, Solo presentation with Unosunove Gallery and Galerie Adler*

TECHNOPHOBIA, Harris Museum, Preston UK

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 (cat)

Gordon Cheung, Kirkby Gallery, Merseyside UK

2007 God is on Our Side, Unosunove Gallery, Rome Italy (cat)

Laing Art Solo Award and Commission: Gordon Cheung - Paradise Lost, Laing Art Gallery, UK (Selected by Susan May)

The 1000 Yard Stare (Solo show), Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth UK

Gordon Cheung - Recent Paintings, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham UK (Curated by Neil Walker)

2006 Heart of Darkness, Thomas Cohn Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2004 Hollow Sunsets, Houldsworth Gallery, London

2002 Sprawl, DomoBaal Gallery, London

Selected Exhibitions

2008

Wharf Road Projects - Dystopia for all, Carter Presents at Wharf Road Projects UK

The Future Can Wait, Truman Brewery - Ellis Rumley Projects UK

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, USA

JERWOOD CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS, Jerwood Space, Union Street, London - touring UK (cat.)

Psychedelic, San Antonio Art Museum, Texas USA - Curated by David S. Rubin (cat.)*

Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture, Aldrich Museum and Yale Museum, Connecticut, Mills Museum, California USA - Curated: Jessica Hough (Aldrich curator) and Monica Ramirez Montagut (Guggenheim curator of Architecture and Design) (cat.)*

Whatever the Weather, Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Sunderland UK

2007

Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington USA - Curated by Anne Ellegood

STILL LIFE, STILL, T 1+2 Gallery, London UK - Curated by Hugh Mendes

THE FUTURE CAN WAIT, The Atlantis gallery, London UK - curated by Ellis Rumley Projects

The Lucifer Effect, Gallery Primo Alonso, London UK - Curated by Gordon Cheung

Dorian Gray Project: Happy Days, John Jones Gallery, London - Curated by Infinity Bunce and Katherine Lubar

Art Basel 38, Switzerland, Alan Cristea Gallery

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

New Life and the Dream Garden, Fieldgate Gallery, London UK

Dream Home, Novas Contemporary Art Centre, London UK

Blood Meridian, Michael Janssen Galerie, Berlin, Germany - Curated by David Hunt

The Newspaper, INDO bar 133 Whitechapel Road, London UK - curated by Eleanor Brown

Arrivals/Departures, URBIS Museum, Manchester UK- Curated by Sally Lai and Yuen Fong Ling

Near Dark, Donna Beam Gallery, Las Vegas USA - Curated by Neal Rock

2006

I'll be Your Mirror, Gallery Primo Alonso, London UK - Curated by David Hancock and Richard Meaghan

Alan Cristea Editions, Alan Cristea Gallery, London (cat.)

Salon Connexions, Contemporary Art Projects, London UK - Curated by C. Vergez

We Have Lost the Hearts and Minds, E:vent, London UK - Created by Reza Aramesh

John Moores 24 Painting Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Biennial UK - Selected by Tracey Emin, Sir Peter Blake, Jason Brookes, Ann Bukantas and Andrea Rose

I'll be your Mirror, Gostin House, Liverpool Biennial UK - Curated by David Hancock and Richard Meaghen

Crave, Rawspace, London - Curated by Raffaella Guidobono

The Stars Down to Earth, Nunnery Gallery, London - Curated by Andrew Hunt (cat.)

10th Planet, A04 Business Complex, London - Curated by Julian Hughes Watts

Fresh! Contemporary Takes on Nature and Allegory, Museum of Glass - International Center for Contemporary Art, Washington USA - Curated by Juli Cho Bailer (cat.)

Stéphane Janssen: The Collector, Amarillo Museum of Art, Texas, USA

ASU Collection, Arizona State Universitity Art Museum, Arizona, USA

Beyond the Grave, Sartorial Contemporary, London UK

The Sleep of Reason, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Continental Breakfast, Umetnostna Galerija Maribor Museum, Slovenia - Curated by Alan Bond

Jerusalem, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax UK - Curated by David Hancock

Broken Romanticism, Standpoint Gallery, London UK - Curated by Steve Walter

BRITISH ART SHOW 6, various UK venues across Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol UK

2005

BRITISH ART SHOW 6, BALTIC, Gateshead (Tour UK – Curated by Alex Farquharson and Andrea Schlieker; organised by Hayward Gallery (cat.)

Jerwood Drawing Prize Finalist – Toured UK: Jerwood Space, University of Gloucestershire, Bayart, mac, EICH Gallery and The Lowry (selected by Basil Beattie: Artist, Mary Doyle: Co-founder of Drawingroom, Tony Godfrey: Director of Sotheby’s Institute of Art)

Drawing 200, Drawingroom Project, Tannery, London UK

Peculiar Encounters, 187-211 St John's Street, London UK - Curated by Sarah Dwyer and Laura Green

Compendium, Castlefield Gallery, Manschester UK

NLK (in association with Armory Show), Soho House, New York USA - Curated by Simon Rumley, Ed Burke

New London Kicks, Wooster Projects, New York USA - Curated by Simon Rumley and Ed Burke

Lunchbox Auction , Wooster Projects, New York USA

Art News, Raid Projects, Los Angeles USA - Curated by Hugh Mendes

Pictionary Auction, Agency Gallery, London UK

USUK Show, Three Colts Gallery, London UK - Curated by Koan Jeff Baysa, Ryan Lemke and Anne-Sophie Dinant

ARCO Art Fair - Independents, Houldsworth Gallery, Madrid, Spain - Curated by Contemporary Magazine

Faux Realism, Royal Academy Pumphouse Gallery, London UK - Curated by Gavin Nolan

Building Capacity, Storey Gallery, Lancashire UK - feat. Lucy Gunning, Hiraki Sawa and others

Art LA, Cynthia Broan Gallery, LA, USA

2004

Caution: Uneven Surfaces, Temporary Contemporary, London UK - Curated by Anthony Gross, Jen Wu

Art News, Three Colts Gallery, London UK - feat. Martin Creed, Gillian Wearing Amikan Toren and others

Zoo Art Fair, London with Flaca Gallery

Grey Goo, Flaca Gallery, London UK - Curated by Tom Humphreys

Horizon of Expectations, The Empire, London UK - Curated by Caroline List

Halbes Haus, Three Colts Gallery, London UK - Curated by Dave Farnham and Boo Ritson

Thermo 04, with Castlefield Gallery, Lowry Museum, Salford UK

Le Petit Paysage, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool - Toured UK - Curated by David Hancock

Perspectives, Galerie Koch, Germany

Stray Show, Chicago, USA

Apopalyptical, Houldsworth Gallery, London UK

Collage, Bloomberg Space, London UK - feat. Chris Ofili, Frank Stella, Richard Prince, Robert Rauchenberg and others - Curated by Sacha Craddock, David Risley, Graham Gussin and Stephen Hepworth

HALF LIGHT, Rockwell, London UK

2003

One Day, Gallery Coridoor, Iceland

Yes, I am a Long Way from Home, Nunnery, London UK (cat.)

Toured UK : Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland - feat. Peter Doig, Paul Morrison, George Shaw, and others. Curated by Bob Matthews and Roger Kelly (cat.)

Vasl, VM Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan (cat.)

Intervention, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton UK - feat. Ron Arad, Foreign Investment, Runa Islam and others. Curated by Kathy Kenny and Vanda Playford (cat.)

Sense and Nonsense, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London UK - feat. Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars and others - Curated by Gerry Smith

Drawing 100, Drawingroom Project, Tannery, London UK - feat. Julian Opie, Paul Noble, Langlands and Bell, Rachel Whiteread and others

Trans-, Kyoto Art Centre, Japan - Curated by Kohei Nawa (cat.)

ArtFutures, Contemporary Art Society, London

Portal-, Studio J, Osaka, Japan

2002

Unscene, Gasworks, London UK (cat.)

Wellworth, Keith Talent Gallery, London UK

2001

CD1, Marlborough Fine Arts, London UK (cat.)

The Show, Royal College of Art, London UK (cat.)

2000

Assembly, Stepney City, London UK – Curator and organiser (cat.)

Painting 2000, Royal College of Art, London UK(cat.)

Fakescape, Mellow Birds, Underwood Street, London UK

2008

JERWOOD CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS, Jerwood Space, Union Street, London

2006

DeciBel Award Finalist, Judges: Okwui Enwezor, David Thorp, Sally Tallant, and others

John Moores 24 Painting Prize Finalist, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool UK- Selected by Tracey Emin, Sir Peter Blake, Jason Brookes, Ann Bukantas and Andrea Rose

Laing Art Solo Award and Commission, Newcastle, UK (Selected by Susan May)

Braziers International Artists Workshop, Oxfordshire UK

2005

Hong Kong and China 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: Time Out Arts editor, Karen Wright: Modern Painters editor, Marcus Harvey: Artist, Roy Exley: Critic/Curator)

Pizza Express Prospects Prize Finalist, Tea Building, London - (Selected by Tim Marlow: White Cube exhibitions director, Fiona Bradley: Fruitmarket Gallery Director, Simon Groom: Exhibitions Director of Tate Liverpool, Graham Gussin: Artist/Curator and Rachel Lowe: Artist)

2003

Breathe Residency, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester

Triangle Arts Trust International Artist Fellowship - Nominated by Gasworks Gallery

VASL Residency, Pakistan - Nominated by Gasworks Gallery (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

1999

Socrates Travel Award for Berlin

John Minton Travel Award for Paris

TI Travel Award for Budapest