Sze Tsung Leong
Sze Tsung Leong is an American and British photographer and artist interested in urban studies.
Biography
Born in Mexico City, he grew up there and in Los Angeles. He then studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and earned architecture degrees from the University of California, Berkeley and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, where he was awarded the Wheelwright Prize. Leong received the Guggenheim Fellowship in 2005. He now lives in New York City.Publications
- Harvard Project on the City : volumes on Great Leap Forward and Guide to Shopping. Both vols. pub. Cologne, 2002.History Images. Photographs of urban spaces and construction projects in China. Steidl, 2007..Horizons. A collection of landscape photographs. Yossi Milo Gallery, 2008.. Exhibition catalogue.
- *Berlin and Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz, 2014.. With essays by Pico Iyer, Duncan Forbes, Joshua Chuang, Leong, and Charlotte Cotton.
Collections
Leong's work is held in the following permanent collections:- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: 2 prints
- Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN: 1 print
- Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL: 2 prints
- Museum of Modern Art, New York: 7 prints
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco: 4 prints