Emily Cheng

Emily Cheng (born in New York City, in 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".[1] 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.

Painting for me, is the evidence of an inquiry…It is the postulation made physical….It is the wall that penetrates….It is the mind reminded. It is the hunch made vivid. It is the reworking of the familiar. It is the shadow of the unfamiliar. It is the acting out of desire. It is the probe of limits. It is the life imaged. It is the eye engaged. Painting is luxury bounded.[2]

Emily Cheng
Emily Cheng in her studio
Born(1953-07-28)28 July 1953
New York
NationalityAmerican
EducationRhode Island School of Design, New York Studio School
Known forPainting
Awards
  • Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, 2010
  • New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 1996
  • Yaddo Residency, 1995
  • National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1982-83
Websitewww.emilycheng.com
Emily Cheng, Installation Shenzhen Art Museum, 2015
Emily Cheng, AboveBelowBagua, 2013

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)[3] and traveled to Hanart TZ Gallery in (2015),[4] Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, (2015)[5] 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.[6]

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 [7]

Emily Cheng has lived and worked in New York City since 1977 and teaches Asian Art History at the School of Visual Arts[8]

Selected solo exhibitions
  • Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York, (2017, 2014)[9]
  • Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, (2015)[10]
  • Hanart T.Z. Gallery, Hong Kong, (2015, 2011, 1996)
  • Zane Bennett Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, (2013)
  • Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei, Taiwan (2011)[11]
  • 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

Awards
  • Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, 2010[16]
  • New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, 1996[17]
  • Yaddo Residency, 1995[18]
  • National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1982-1983[19]

Bibliography
  • Books by Emily Cheng include Emily Cheng: Chasing Clouds: A Decade of Studies -

Publisher: Blue Kingfisher; n edition (March 1, 2008) ISBN 9889961768

  • The Figure: Another Side of Modernism – Publisher: Snug Haror Cultural Center SHCC; Et Al (2000) ISBN 096042542X

References
  1. Smith, Roberta (June 25, 2004). "Emily Cheng and Lois Connor -- 'Jewel in the Heart'". The New York Times. Retrieved September 6, 2017.
  2. "Artist statement,The Figure, Another Side of Modernism". The New York Times. The New York Times. Retrieved September 14, 2017.
  3. "Emily Cheng: Chasing Clouds: A Decade of Studies". Asia Art Archive. Asia Art Archive. Retrieved August 14, 2017.
  4. "Artist Emily Cheng". hanart TZ Gallery. hanart TZ Gallery. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  5. "Interview with Emily Cheng". Shenzhen Art Museum. Shenzhen Art Museum. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  6. "Artist Emily Cheng". hanart TZ Gallery. hanart TZ Gallery. Retrieved August 14, 2017.
  7. "Emily Cheng: Chasing Clouds: A Decade of Studies". Asia Art Archive. Asia Art Archive. Retrieved August 14, 2017.
  8. "Fine artist, art historian". School of Visual Arts New York. SVA NYC. Retrieved August 28, 2017.
  9. "The Art Scene: Emily Cheng at Ille". The East Hampton Star. The East Hampton Star. Retrieved September 13, 2017.
  10. "Interview with Emily Cheng". Shenzhen Art Museum. Shenzhen Art Museum. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
  11. "Charting Sacred Territories: Holy Morphosis–A Solo Exhibition by Emily Cheng". MOCA Taipei. Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
  12. "Hanart Square / Hanart TZ Current Exhibition Xu Longsen (Mar 6 – 28, 2015)" (PDF). Art Guide Hong Kong. My Art Guides, Lightbox Publishing Inc. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
  13. "Here & Now: Chapter III Towards Transculturalism". Museum of Chinese in America. Museum of Chinese in America. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
  14. "Third Guangzhou Triennial reviews and highlights". Art Radar Asia. Art Radar Asia. Retrieved September 11, 2017.
  15. "Jon Cone". Jon Cone. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Retrieved September 18, 2017.
  16. "Visiting Artist: Emily Cheng". Vermont Studio Center. Vermont Studio Center. Retrieved September 13, 2017.
  17. "Emily Cheng" (PDF). W. Ming Art. w.ming art. Retrieved September 13, 2017.
  18. "Emily Cheng Fine artist, art historian". SVA NYC. School of Visual Arts New York. Retrieved September 13, 2017.
  19. "Meanders and Morphosis : Charting the Nature of Interior Spaces". Hanart TZ Gallery. Hanart TZ Gallery. Retrieved September 13, 2017.
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