Gordon Cheung

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Home, installation view, Tears of Paraside, Edel Assanti, London, UK, 2020.

Biography
 
Gordon Cheung's work interrogates the levers of power that govern our understanding of the world, and the role that visual culture plays within the construction of history. With focus on the transforming socioeconomic relationship between east and west, he questions the effects of global capitalism and reflects on the potency of historical narratives. 
 
Cheung’s oeuvre is populated by disparate cultural symbols drawn from cartography, political propaganda, anonymous internet imagery and art history. Imagery itself is Cheung’s primary material, either co-opted in the creation of multimedia paintings or manipulated via digital algorithms. His recent paintings depict aerial perspectives of real and part prophetic landscapes, often relating to sites in China comprising the largest infrastructural project in human history. The sprawling cityscapes are rendered from satellite imagery, built up as reliefs on the canvas in hardened sand and pigment. The scenes’ relationship with reality is destabilised by the overall compositions, which feature floating cities below glimmering constellations that mark out future geopolitical orders.
 
Gordon Cheung (b. 1975) graduated from Central Saint Martins in 1998, completing an MA at the Royal College of Art in 2001. Selected solo exhibitions include Peaceful Retreat, Almine Rech, Shangai, China (2024); Rise and Fall, House of Fine Art, Mykonos, Greece (2024); The Garden of Perfect Brightness, The Atkinson, Southport, UK (2023); Arrow to Heaven, Almine Rech, Paris, France (2022); Tears of Paradise, Edel Assanti, London, UK (2020); Cross Pollination, The Atkinson, Southport, UK (2019); Home, Galerie Huit, Hong Kong (2018); New Order Vanitas, Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, Florida, USA (2017); Gordon Cheung, The Whitaker, Rossendale, UK (2017); Here be Dragons, Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham, UK (2016); Lines in the Sand, Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2016); Altered States, Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, USA (2010); The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK (2009) and The Promised Land at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA (2009). Group exhibitions include Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (2023); A Gateway to Possible Worlds, Art and Science Fiction, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Lorraine, France (2022); Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, UK (2020); 2219: Futures Imagined, Artscience Museum, Singapore (2019); Turkish Tulips, Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam, Netherlands; travelling to the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle, UK and Horniman Museum, London, UK (2017). Cheung’s work features in numerous public collections worldwide, including Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, USA; Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, USA; The British Museum, London, UK; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA; Hood Museum of Art, New Hampshire, USA; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, USA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Speed Art Museum, Kentucky, USA; The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, UK and The Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA. Gordon Cheung lives and works in London.

 

 

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Bibliography
Works
  • Gordon Cheung, Augury of Ningbo, 2022
    Augury of Ningbo, 2022
  • Gordon Cheung, Megalopolis, 2020
    Megalopolis, 2020
  • Gordon Cheung, Desert of the Real, 2020
    Desert of the Real, 2020
  • Gordon Cheung, Tears of Paradise, 2020
    Tears of Paradise, 2020
  • Gordon Cheung, Home, 2020
    Home, 2020
  • Gordon Cheung, Megalopolis, 2020
    Megalopolis, 2020
  • Gordon Cheung, On the Horizon, 2018
    On the Horizon, 2018
  • Gordon Cheung, Plateau, 2018
    Plateau, 2018
  • Gordon Cheung, Great Wall of Sand, 2017
    Great Wall of Sand, 2017
  • Gordon Cheung, Handstands on Chairs, 2016
    Handstands on Chairs, 2016
  • Gordon Cheung, Lines in the Sand (Unknown Knowns), 2016
    Lines in the Sand (Unknown Knowns), 2016
  • Gordon Cheung, Chairman Mao goes to Anyuan, 2016
    Chairman Mao goes to Anyuan, 2016
  • Gordon Cheung, A Thousand Plateaus, 2016
    A Thousand Plateaus, 2016
  • Gordon Cheung, Living Mountain, 2015
    Living Mountain, 2015
  • Gordon Cheung, Forbidden City, 2015
    Forbidden City, 2015
  • Gordon Cheung, Journey to the West (Flowers for Aunty Betty), 2014
    Journey to the West (Flowers for Aunty Betty), 2014
  • Gordon Cheung, Trembling Sunrise, 2011
    Trembling Sunrise, 2011
  • Gordon Cheung, The Promised Land, 2009
    The Promised Land, 2009
  • Gordon Cheung, Lots of Love for Chairman Mao, (after Xie Zhiguang, 1955), 2016
    Lots of Love for Chairman Mao, (after Xie Zhiguang, 1955), 2016
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Gordon Cheung discusses his studio practice with the curator of M+ Museum - Sunny Cheung and Stacey Williams.

In Home Fires 01, Gordon Cheung discusses his installation 'Home', from his 2020 exhibition at Edel Assanti 'Tears of Paradise'.

Gordon Cheung in conversation with Mark Rappolt, Editor-in-Cheif, ArtReview on the occasion of his exhibition 'Tears of Paradise', 2020.

Gordon Cheung discusses his studio practice with Colart, 2018.

Gordon Cheung in conversation with Paul Hobson, Director, Modern Art Oxford, on the occasion of his exhibition 'Unknown Knowns', 2017.

Gordon Cheung discusses his show 'Here Be Dragons' at Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, 2016.
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