Emily Cheng

Emily Cheng (born 1953) 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 (2011) and traveled to Hanart TZ Gallery in (2015), Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, (2015) and in Europe at the Palais Liechtenstein Feldkirch, Austria (2019).
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, (2017, 2014)
Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, (2015)
Hanart T.Z. Gallery, Hong Kong, (2015, 2011, 1996)
Zane Bennett Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, (2013)
Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan (2011)
Louis Vuitton Maison, Kowloon, Hong Kong, (2010)
Ayala Museum Makati, Philippines, (2006)
Plum Blossom Gallery, New York, NY, (2004)
Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (2002, 1992, 1990)
Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO (2001)
Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines (1997)
John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY, Projects Room (1997)
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, (1992)
Lang & O'Hara Gallery, New York, NY, (1990, 1988, 1987)
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, (1989)
White Columns, New York, NY, (1985)
Selected group exhibitions
Art Basel Hong Kong, (Hanart Gallery), Hong Kong, 2017
China Institute, New York, NY, 2014
Beijing Art Fair, Beijing, China, 2013
Museum of Chinese in America New York, NY, 2010
Kidspace, MASS MoCA, Williamstown, MA, 2010, 2005
Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China, 2009
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong, China, 2009
Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2008
Contrast Gallery, Shanghai and Beijing, China, 2008
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida, 2006
Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong, 2004
American Academy of Art, New York, New York, 2004
Longmarch Project, Beijing, China, 2002
Sotheby’s, New York, NY, 2001
Newhouse Center, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, 2000
Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, 2000
National Academy and Museum, NY, 2000
Municipal Museum of Gyor, Hungary, 1999
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, 1998
De Cordova Museum and the Computer Museum, Boston, MA, 1994
International Graphic Biennial, Muveszeti Museum, Hungary, 1995
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 1994
Drawing 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, 1993
Cone Editions Gallery, New York 1990
Anina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1988
Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina, 1988
North Carolina Museum of Art, North Carolina, 1988
Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, 1988
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, 1986
Tibor de Nagy, New York, 1985
Asian American Arts Centre, New York, 1985
Awards
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, 2010
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 1996
Yaddo Residency, 1995
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1982-1983
Bibliography
Books by Emily Cheng include Emily Cheng: Chasing Clouds: A Decade of Studies - Publisher: Blue Kingfisher; n edition (March 1, 2008)
The Figure: Another Side of Modernism – Publisher: Snug Haror Cultural Center SHCC; Et Al (2000)
References
External links
Website Emily Cheng
The Shanghai Restoration Project - BOARdom feat. artwork by Emily Cheng
The Works Emily Cheng at Hanart
Emily Cheng, Chasing Clouds, Music by Shanghai Restoration Project
1953 births
Living people
American artists of Chinese descent
American contemporary painters
Painters from New York City
New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture alumni
Rhode Island School of Design alumni