Shu Lea Cheang Selected as the 2024 LG GuggenheimAward Recipient§ The Net art pioneer has experimented with evolving technologies for overthirty years through her impactful and collaborative projects.
§ The award is part of the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative, a fiveyear, multifaceted collaboration designed to research, honor, and promoteartists working at the intersection of art and technology.
(NEW YORK, NY¾March 4, 2024) The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and LG proudly
announce Shu Lea Cheang as the 2024 LG Guggenheim Award recipient. The Net art pioneer, whoseinterdisciplinary practice spans over thirty years, is the second award recipient to be recognized as partof the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative, a five-year, multifaceted collaboration designed
to research, honor, and promote artists working at the intersection of art and technology. Cheang wasselected by an international jury of experts in art and technology and will receive an unrestricted
honorarium of $100,000 in celebration of her groundbreaking achievements in this field.
“Shu Lea Cheang was one of the first to recognize the liberatory potential of the digital realm. Wecelebrate her bold explorations of bodies, and their desires, in our digital and analog worlds, and arethrilled, alongside LG, to recognize her necessary work,” states Naomi Beckwith, Deputy Director andJennifer and David Stockman Chief Curator at the Guggenheim.
“LG is delighted to join the Guggenheim in honoring Shu Lea Cheang with the second LG
Guggenheim Award. Looking through her oeuvre, one can observe many of the themes that recently
entered today’s technological discourses, such as data, decentralized networks, and gamification, havelong been central to her artistic inquiry. LG commends the award jury's recognition of Shu
Lea Cheang’s daring foresight," states Seol Park, Head of Brand Management at LG Corp.
Cheang (b. 1954, Taiwan) has carved her own path as a visionary. She has engaged emerging
technologies (often since their inception) in innumerable forms—including as a theme, tool, andmedium—since the 1990s, and developed a remarkable understanding of their complexities, as well as
insight into their role in shaping society. Her use of code, gaming engines, software design, and hacking
strategies and traditional mediums like installations, film, and performance in her multifaceted projects
reflect her unique approach to artmaking and reject neat categorization.

In addition to her pioneering work in Net art, she has had foresight into alternative currencies anddecentralized organizations with Garlic=Rich Air (2002–), investigated gamified societies with Bowling
Alley (1995), probed biotechnologies in Locker Baby Project (2001–2012) and explored their mutable
nature in Mycelium Network Society (2017–).
Her work weaves sensorial experiences with technology and is deeply rooted in her interests in science
fiction, queer aesthetics, and community building. Her explorations of social structures in networked
societies have advanced understandings of the circulation of information and the ways in which people
communicate. She has utilized analog communication tools in Those Fluttering Objects of Desire (1992–93), movement sensors and data management systems in BabyPlay (2001), to develop an alternativetechnological approach based on shared production. She is also an accomplished filmmaker and hasproduced and directed four feature-length films: Fresh Kill (1994), I.K.U. (2000), Fluidø (2017), and UKI(2023). Cheang’s installation, Utter (2023), is an example of how she has turned her attention to thesocietal implications of machine learning in recent years.
“The LG Guggenheim Award revives an honorable tradition of the electronic industry's support for artand technology. To be recognized by an assembly of diverse jury members grants me tremendous
confidence in continuing and expanding my art practice. I thank all my collaborators on every one of myprojects,” said Shu Lea Cheang.
A public program in the Peter B. Lewis Theater on May 2 will serve as an opportunity to hear from theartist directly as she discusses her creative practice, as well as new works in development.
Shu Lea Cheang is an American-Taiwanese-French artist and filmmaker. She is celebrated as a Net art
pioneer with Brandon (1998–99), the first web art commissioned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York, Cheang represented Taiwan with 3x3x6, a mixed-media installation at 2019 Venice
Biennale: May You Live In Interesting Times. Her feature-length films have been shown at LAS ArtFoundation, Berlin; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Institute forContemporary Art, London; among many other venues. She has exhibited at many experimental andestablished institutions, including Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Whitney Museum of American Art,New York; Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona; Tai Kwun, Hong Kong; Museion Bolzano,Italy; Singapore Art Museum; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens;Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; FACT Center, Liverpool. She has
participated in international shows such as the Whitney Biennial for American Art (1993, 1995);
Johannesburg Biennial (1997); Documenta 14 (2017); Gwangju Biennial (2018); Taipei Biennial (2018);
Performa Biennial (2019); and Venice Biennale (2003, 2019, 2024). Her work is in the collections ofWhitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; NTTInterCommunication Center, Tokyo; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; KADIST Foundation;
Foundation Museion; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

This year’s jury was comprised of Eungie Joo, Curator and Head of Contemporary Art at San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Koyo Kouoh, Executive Director and Chief Curator of Zeitz
Museum of Contemporary Art, Cape Town; Noam Segal, LG Electronics Associate Curator, SolomonR. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Director of Castello di Rivoli
Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin; and Stephanie Dinkins, artist, and the inaugural recipient of theLG Guggenheim Award.

Jury Statement"Shu Lea Cheang’s oeuvre was exceptional among outstanding nominees. Her dynamic works present
bursting energy, mesmerizing color palettes, and highly complex, playful, and aesthetically pleasing
installations. In those, she renders the porousness between the physical and digital domains, offering
empowering amalgamations for audiences to engage with.
Drawing inspiration from science-fiction literature and film as well as gaming, Cheang’s projects andexperimentations in the fields of art and technology present a fascinating overview of advanced
technologies. She continuously offers new understandings of technological changes and their effects on
our societies and her expansive output is, and will remain, highly influential for generations. We arehonored to support her groundbreaking practice through this prestigious award.”

About the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative
The LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Initiative is a five-year, multifaceted collaboration between
the Guggenheim and LG designed to research, honor, and promote artists working at the intersectionof art and technology. Unique in its areas of concentration and approach, the initiative is an
unprecedented investment in technology as an artistic medium. It enables the Guggenheim to broaden
its investigations into this innovative field, providing essential support to the visionary artists who inspire
new understandings of how technology shapes, and is shaped by, society.
As part of the initiative, Noam Segal joined the Guggenheim in 2023 as LG Electronics AssociateCurator. Focusing on research, Segal holds an active role in developing the Guggenheim’s engagementwith technology-based art, producing scholarship and public-facing content that will strengthen thegoals of the multifaceted initiative across the museum’s departments.
The 2024 LG Guggenheim Award recipient, Shu Lea Cheang, will be celebrated on April 2nd at the2024 YCC Party sponsored by LG Display. Three additional artists will be recognized through 2027.

About LG
LG is a technology innovator and global leader in consumer electronics, chemicals, and automotivecomponents. Founded in 1947, LG was a driving force behind South Korea’s modernization. Thecompany produced South Korea’s first radio and television sets, and today is a global leader in organic
light-emitting displays (OLED), electric car batteries, and advanced industrial plastics. The LG group ofcompanies employ over 280,000 people in more than 60 countries that together generate USD 140
billion in annual revenue. LG Corporation (LG Corp.) is the holding company for industry-leading LG
subsidiaries, such as LG Electronics, LG Display, LG Energy Solution, LG Chem, to name a few. For
more information about the LG group of companies, visit lgcorp.com.

About the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation was established in 1937 and is dedicated to promoting theunderstanding and appreciation of modern and contemporary art through exhibitions, education
programs, research initiatives, and publications. The international constellation of museums includes theSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice; theGuggenheim Museum Bilbao; and the future Guggenheim Abu Dhabi. An architectural icon and“temple of spirit” where radical art and architecture meet, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is now
among a group of eight Frank Lloyd Wright structures in the United States recently designated as a
UNESCO World Heritage site. To learn more about the museum and the Guggenheim’s activities
around the world, visit guggenheim.org.

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