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 1990Jon Cone 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