Emily Cheng
Emily Cheng is an American artist of Chinese ancestry. She is best known for large scale paintings with a center focus often employing expansive circular images... "radiantly colored, radially composed". She has won numerous awards including Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, 2010, New [York Foundation for the Arts] Fellowship, 1996, Yaddo Residency, 1995, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1982–1983.
Cheng received her BFA in 1975 from the Rhode Island School of Design and attended the New York Studio School. Cheng has exhibited widely in the US and in Asia. In 2011, Cheng created Charting Sacred Territories, an exhibition exploring world religions which opened in the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan and traveled to Hanart TZ Gallery in, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, and in Europe at the Palais Liechtenstein Feldkirch, Austria.
Cheng has had numerous solo shows in the US and in Asia and is represented by Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong.
In 2007, Timezone 8 published a monograph of Emily Cheng titled, Chasing Clouds, a decade of studies, with essays by Kevin Powers and Johnson Chang
Emily Cheng has lived and worked in New York City since 1977 and teaches Asian Art History at the School of Visual Arts
Selected solo exhibitions
Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, Hanart T.Z. Gallery, Hong Kong, Zane Bennett Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan Louis Vuitton Maison, Kowloon, Hong Kong, Ayala Museum Makati, Philippines, Plum Blossom Gallery, New York, NY, Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY, Projects Room Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, Lang & O'Hara Gallery, New York, NY, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, White Columns, New York, NY,
Selected group exhibitions
Art Basel Hong Kong,'' , Hong Kong, 2017China Institute, New York, NY, 2014Beijing Art Fair, Beijing, China, 2013Museum of Chinese in America New York, NY, 2010Kidspace, MASS MoCA, Williamstown, MA, 2010, 2005Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China, 2009Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong, China, 2009Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2008Contrast Gallery, Shanghai and Beijing, China, 2008University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida, 2006Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, 2004American Academy of Art, New York, New York, 2004Longmarch Project, Beijing, China, 2002Sotheby’s, New York, NY, 2001Newhouse Center, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, 2000Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, 2000National Academy and Museum, NY, 2000Municipal Museum of Gyor, Hungary, 1999New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, 1998De Cordova Museum and the Computer Museum, Boston, MA, 1994International Graphic Biennial, Muveszeti Museum, Hungary, 1995Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 1994Drawing Center, NY; traveled to Corcoran, Washington D.C., Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA; The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis MO; American Center, Paris, France, 1993Cone Editions Gallery, New York 1990Anina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1988Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina, 1988North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina, 1988Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, 1988Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, 1986Tibor de Nagy, New York, 1985Asian American Arts Centre'', New York, 1985
Awards
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, 2010New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 1996Yaddo Residency, 1995National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1982-1983