Gordon Cheung
 *
1975 London, UK
 lebt und arbeitet in London, UK

 1999-2001 Royal College of Art - MA Fine Art Painting
 1995-1998 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design -
                 BA(Hons) Fine Art in Painting
 1994-1995 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design - Art and
                 Design Foundation Studies
   

Einzelausstellungen

2011 The Light that Burns Twice as Bright, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
2010 The Sleeper Awakes, Other Gallery, Shanghai, China
        Altered States, Arizona State University Museum, USA
2009 Gordon Cheung & Jonathan Seliger, Nassau County Museum of Art, New York, USA
        (curated by Elaine Berger)
        Gordon Cheung, ROOM Gallery, London, UK
        The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK
        The Promised Land, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA
2008 Technophobia, Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston, UK
        Wilderness of Mirrors, Galerie Adler Frankfurt
        Gordon Cheung, Kirkby Gallery, Merseyside UK
        The Fall of the Rebel Angels, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
        Death by a Thousand Cuts, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK
2007 God is on Our Side, Unosunove Gallery, Rome, Italien
        Laing Art Solo Award and Commission: Gordon Cheung - Paradise Lost, Laing Art Gallery, UK
        The 1000 Yard Stare, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
        Gordon Cheung - Recent Paintings, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham UK
2006 Heart of Darkness, Thomas Cohn Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brasilien
        Gordon Cheung, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2003 Hollow Sunsets, Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
2002 Sprawl, DomoBaal Gallery, London, UK


Gruppenausstellungen

2011 John Martin, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK
        John Martin, Millenium Gallery, Sheffield, UK
        Future Can Wait, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA
        40 ARTISTS - 80 DRAWING’,The Burton Art Gallery and Museum, Biddeford, Devon, UK
        From Eternity to Here, Galleri Larm, Kopenhagen, Dänemark
        The Guessing Game: Put Your Index Finger on the Trini (Put your thumb on the foreigner), National
        Museum of Trinidad and Tobago, Port of Spain, Trinidad (Curated by Nicolette Ramirez)
2010 New and Classic works by Eleven Artists, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
        Press Art - The Collection Annette and Peter Nobel, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Österreich
        SUPERUNKNOWN, Edel Assanti, London, UK
        Premio Lissone, Museo d’arte contemporanea, Lissone, Italien
        Collaborators, ROOM artspace, London, UK
        BIAB10 The Fourth Beijing International Art Biennale, Beijing, China
        Chaosmos, Liverpool Biennale, View Two Gallery, Liverpool, UK (curated by Chris Boyd)
        SURFACE WARP FACTOR, The Aubin Gallery, London, UK (curated by Fieldgate Gallery)
        501 UP, Zero Gallery, London, UK
        Difference Engine: Manifestation II, Triskel Arts Centre, ESB Substation, Caroline St., Cork City, UK
        Resurrectine, The Feldman Gallery, New York, USA
        The Pavilion of Realism, Other Gallery, Shanghai and Beijing, China
        Reich Sein, Künstlerverein Walkmühle e.V., Wiesbaden
        Negotiable Values, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK
2009 Difference Engine, Cake contemporary arts, Irland
        Future or Ruin, Charlie Smith Gallery, London, UK
        Time is a Sausage, DOMOBAAL, London, UK
        Il castello di Rivara apre le cantine, Castello di Rivara - Centre of Contemporary Art, Rivara, Italy
        (curated by Francesca Solero)
        Gallery Artists, Alan Cristea, London, UK
        Uneasy Persuasion, The University of Hertfordshire Art and Design Gallery, Hatfield, UK
        (curated by Jamie Robinson from Carter Presents)
        Projections, Carré d'Art - Museum of Contemporary Art, Nimes, Frankreich
        Unfold, Nettie Horn Gallery, London, UK
        Fault Line - Art in the Age of Anxiety, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK (curated by Sarah Elson)
        Drawing Biennale 2009, Drawing Room Gallery, London, UK
        Lure and Seducer, Gallery Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Dänemark
        R O O M Collaborators, Room Gallery, London, UK
        Reconstructing the Old House, Ruskin Gallery, London, UK (curated by Benet Spencer)
        Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture, Mills College Art Museum,
        California, USA (curated by Jessica Hough and Mónica Ramírez-Montagut)
        New London School, Galerie Schuster, Berlin (curated by Zavier Ellis and Simon Rumley)
        40 Artists - 80 Drawings, The Drawing Gallery, Shropshire, UK
        Ps: Parsing Spirituality, Affirmation Arts, New York, USA
2008 PHANTAKALIFRAGILISTIGEXPIALIGETISCH, Galerie ADLER, Frankfurt am Main
        Timbuktu, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin, Irland
        Landslide, I-Myu Gallery, London, UK
        Fresh Out of the Box, Walsall Art Museum, Walsall, UK
        The Future Can Wait, T1, The Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
        The Maddox Arts Summer Show, Maddox Arts, London, UK
        The Other Mainstream II: Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn
        Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, USA
        FUTUREBLUEPERFECT, Cafe Gallery Projects, London, UK 25th - Curated by Clare Goodwin and
        Liz Murray
        Éigse Carlow Arts Festival 2008 - We Don’t Need Nobody Else - Curated by Rob Lowe
        ZAVIER ELLIS & SIMON RUMLEY PRESENT: ’NEW LONDON SCHOOL’, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa   
        Monica (LA), USA
        Winter Acchrochage, MARCdePUECHREDON, Basel, Switzerland
        JERWOOD CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS, Jerwood Space, Union Street, London
        Whatever the Weather, Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, UK
        Psychedelic, San Antonio Art Museum, Texas USA, Curated by David S. Rubin (cat.)*
        Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture, Aldrich Museum and Yale   
        Museum, Connecticut, Mills Museum, California USA - Curated: Jessica Hough and Monica
        Ramirez Montagut (cat.)*
2007 Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington USA -   
        Curated by Anne Ellegood
        STILL LIFE, STILL, T 1+2 Gallery, London UK - Curated by Hugh Mendes
        THE FUTURE CAN WAIT, The Atlantis gallery, London UK - curated by Ellis Rumley Projects
        The Lucifer Effect, Gallery Primo Alonso, London UK - Curated by Gordon Cheung
        Dorian Gray Project: Happy Days, John Jones Gallery, London - Curated by Infinity Bunce and   
        Katherine Lubar
        Art Basel 38, Switzerland, Alan Cristea Gallery
        Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London UK
        Detour, The Arts Director Club, New York - Curated by Raffaella Guidobono
        Drawing from History: Permanent Collection and Loans, ASU Art Museum, Arizona USA
        Fash n Riot, Photographer's Gallery, London, UK
        Blood Meridian, Michael Janssen Galerie, Berlin -Curated by David Hunt
        Arrivals/Departures, URBIS Museum, Manchester -Curated: Sally Lai and Yuen Fong Ling
2006 Alan Cristea Editions, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
        Fresh, Museum of Glass – Center of Contemporary Art, Washington, USA
        John Moores 24 Painting Prize Finalist, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Biennial, UK (Ausgewählt
        von Tracey Emin, Sir Peter Blake, Jason Brookes, Ann Bukantas and Andrea Rose)
        The Stars Down to Earth, Nunnery Gallery, London, UK (Kuratiert von Andrew Hunt)
        10th Planet, A04 Business Complex, London, UK (Kuratiert von Julian Hughes Watts)
        Stéphane Janssen: The Collector, Amarillo Museum of Art, Texas, USA
        ASU Collection, Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, USA
        Continental Breakfast, Umetnostna Galerija Maribor Museum, Slovenia
        Jerusalem, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax (Kuratiert von David Hancock)
        Crave, Rawspace, London, UK (Kuratiert von Raffaella Guidobono)
        The Sleep of Reason, The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
        Continental Breakfast, Umetnostna Galerija Maribor Museum, Slovenia
        Broken Romanticism, Standpoint Gallery (Kuratiert von Steve Walter)
        Drawing 200, Drawingroom Project, Tannery, London, UK
        BRITISH ART SHOW 6, various UK venues across Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol, UK
2005 BRITISH ART SHOW 6, BALTIC, Gateshead (Touring UK – Kuratiert von Alex Farquharson and
        Andrea Schlieker; organisiert von Hayward Gallery)
        New London Kicks, Wooster Projects, New York, USA (Kuratiert von Simon Rumley and Ed Burke)
        Art News, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, USA (Kuratiert von Hugh Mendes feat. Martin Creed and
        Gillian Wearing)
        NLK (in association with Armory Show), Soho House, New York, USA
        ARCO Art Fair - Independents, Houldsworth Gallery, Madrid, Spain (Kuratiert von Contemporary
        Magazine)
        Faux Realism, Royal Academy Pumphouse Gallery, London, UK
2004 Caution: Uneven Surfaces, Temporary Contemporary, London, UK
        Art News, Three Colts Gallery, London, UK (feat. Martin Creed, Gillian Wearing und andere)
        Zoo Art Fair, London, UK (mit Flaca Gallery)
        Thermo 04, Lowry Museum, Salford, UK
        Le Petit Paysage, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, UK (Toured UK nationally)
        Apopalyptical, Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
        Collage, Bloomberg Space, London, UK (feat. Chris Ofili, Frank Stella, Richard Prince, Robert
        Rauchenberg und andere)
2003 Yes, I am a Long Way from Home, Nunnery, London, UK (Katalog)
        Toured: Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury and Northern Gallery for
        Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK (feat. Peter Doig, Paul Morrison, George Shaw, und andere)
        Intervention, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK (feat. Ron Arad, Runa Islam und andere)
        Drawing 100, Drawingroom Project, Tannery, London, UK (feat. Julian Opie, Paul Noble,
        Langlands and Bell, Rachel Whiteread und andere)
        Trans-, Kyoto Art Centre, Japan
        ArtFutures, Contemporary Art Society, London, UK
        Portal-, Studio J, Osaka, Japan
2002 Unscene, Gasworks, London, UK (Katalog)
2001 CD1, Marlborough Fine Arts, London, UK (Katalog)
2000 Assembly, Stepney City, London, UK – Curator and organiser (Katalog)


Preise und Stipendien

2008 JERWOOD CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS, Jerwood Space, Union Street, London
2007 Artes Mundi Prize 3 Nomination, Selected by Isabel Carlos and Bisi Silva
2006 Braziers International Artists Workshop, UK
        DeciBel Award Finalist, Judges: Okwui Enwezor, David Thorp, Sally Tallant, und andere
2005 Hong Kong and China Research Research Trip - Funded by ACE and A-n
        Arts Council of England Individual Arts Award
2004 BOC Emerging Artist Award Finalist - (Ausgewählt von Sarah kent, Karen Wright, Marcus Harvey,
        Roy Exley)
        Pizza Express Prospects Prize Finalist, Tea Building, London, UK (Ausgewählt von Tim Marlow,
        Fiona Bradley, Simon Groom, Graham Gussin and Rachel Lowe)
        Jerwood Drawing Prize Finalist – (Toured UK)
        Breathe Residency, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK
2003 Triangle Arts Trust International Artist Fellowship - Nominated by Gasworks Gallery
        VASL Residency, Pakistan
        Arts Council England International Art Award
        British Council International Arts Award
        Diffuse Asia, Kyoto Art Centre Residency, Japan
        Lexmark European Painting Prize Finalist, London
2000 Socrates Travel Award for Berlin
        John Minton Travel Award for Paris, Frankreich
        TI Travel Award for Budapest
        Paris Studio Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, Frankreich
        The Gilchrist-Fisher Award Finalist, Rhg, London, UK (Katalog)
1999 Space Studio Residency 98/99, Space Studios, Old Street, London, UK
1998 Arte Viva, Residency and competition - Painting First PrizeWinner, Italien


Sammlungen (Auswahl)

The Progressive Art Collection, Ohio, USA
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Hirshhorn Museum of Art and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA
Knoxville Art Museum, Tennessee, USA
Whitworth Art Museum, Manchester UK
ASU Art Museum, Arizona, USA
Walsall Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
UBS Collection, London UK
Hiscox Collection
Royal College of Art
Central Saint Martins University of Arts
Stephane Janssen Collection
Mikki and Stanley Weithorn Collection
Patrick Duffy and Wally Goodman
Imogen and Elspeth Collection
Peter Nobel, Schweiz
Mimi Floback
Richard Akagawa
Martin Hale, USA


Bibliographie (Auswahl)

Gordon Cheung Signs Taken for Wonders, emagazine, von Marilyn Zeitlin, Mai 2009
Gordon Cheung, Art World, Interview von Paul Carey-Kent, Februar / März 2009
Gordon Cheung: Börsenkolumnen als moderne Landschaftsbilder, Die Welt, Uwe Wittstock, 4. Oktober 2008
Stelzen, Trophäen und ein Ex-Voto, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Konstanze Crüwell, 6. September 2008
From Modern Economy to Ancient Mythology, Aesthetica Magazine, Shona Fairweather, February 2008
Gordon Cheung, curated by Kohei Nawa, Dazed and Confused, Japan, February 2008
City Life, Channel M, Robert Hudson - TV interview, January 25, 2008
Fall of he Rebel Angels at Alan Cristea Gallery, by Helen Water, January 2008 (cat.)
God is on our side, Galleria 1/9 unosunove arte contemporanea, by Raffaella Guidobono, November 2007 (cat)
Chimera Angles, 1000 Yard Stare, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth UK, by Martin Holman, August 2007 (cat)
Cyberman Who Fell to Earth, Times T2, by Laura Gasgoigne, January 9, 2007
Gordon Cheung, Dazed and Confused, by Iphgenia Baal, vol.2 issue 32, p.34, November 2005
British Art Show 6, Newsnight Review, BBC27, November 2005
Gordon Cheung, I-d Magazine, by Charlie Danby, p.98, September 2005
As Hirst hits 40, meet new faces of UK Art Scene, The Independent, by Arifa Akbar, p.3, June 6, 2005
Gordon Cheung, Flash Art, by Roy Exley, no.240, p.72, January 2005
Gordon Cheung, Financial Times Weekend magazine, by Jackie Wullschlager, October 2004
Breathing Space, City life, by Tim Birch, May 2004
Collage, Contemporary Magazine, May 2004
Apopolyptical, Art Monthly, by David Barrett, May 2004
Collage, Art Monthly, by Eliza Williams, May 2004
Intervention, Guardian The Guide, October 2003
Yes I am a Long Way from Home, Contemporary, April 2003
Yes I am a Long Way from Home, Art Monthly, by Sara Harrison, April 2003
Yes I am a Long Way from Home, Time Out, by Sarah Kent, April 2003
Yes I am a Long Way from Home, Art Review, April 2003
Gordon Cheung, What’s On, July 2002
Unscene, Gasworks Gallery, Modern Painters, June 5, 2002
Unscene, Gasworks Gallery, The Guardian - The Guide, by Jessica Lack, April 30, 2002
Unscene, Gasworks Gallery, Time Out, by Jane Tynan, no.1653, April 24, 2002
Wellworth, Keith Talent Gallery, Time Out, by Martin Herbert, no.1647, March 13, 2002
Class of 2001 -Top 20 MA Graduates, Art Review supplement, 2001
Lessons in the art of survival, The Daily Telegraph, by Will Bennett, June 4, 2001
Assembly - The Best Art Shows, The Big Issue, by Helen Sumpter, no.41827, December 2000
Fakescape, Frieze, Neal Brown, no.55, November 2000
Fakescape, Flash Art, November 2000
Assembly, Time Out, No.1574. October18, 2000
Go See Assembly, The Observer Magazine, October 1, 2000
Fakescape, The Guardian, London, Jonathan Jones, August 4, 2000
Fakescape, Time Out, London, Izi Glover, August 23, 2000