Gordon Cheung

Biography

Work

Exhibition

Artist's website

Born 1975 London– lives and works in London

Education

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

Solo Exhibitions

2010           'The Sleeper Awakes' Other Gallery, Shanghai, China

'Altered States, Arizona State University Museum, USA (curated by Heather

Lineberry/Marilyn Zeitlin)

2009           'Gordon Cheung', ROOM Gallery, London

'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse', The New Art Gallery Walsall,

Walsall UK

'The Promised Land', Jack Shainman Gallery New York

'Volta NY', Solo presentation with Unosunove Gallery and Galerie Adler

2008           'Wilderness of Mirror', Galerie Adler, Frankfurt, Germany

'Death By a Thousand Cuts', Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester

'The Fall of the Rebel Angels', Alan Cristea Gallery, London

'Gordon Cheung', Kirkby Gallery, Liverpool, UK

2007           'God is on Our Side', Unosunove Gallery, Rome Italy (curated by Raffaella

Guidobono)

'Paradise Lost', Laing Art Solo Commission, Newcastle (selected by Susan

May)
'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, Brazil (cat.)

2003           'Hollow Sunsets', Houldsworth Gallery, London

2002           'Sprawl', DomoBaal Gallery, London

Selected Exhibitions

2010           'The Pavilion of Realism', Other Gallery, Shanghai and Beijing, China

'Reich Sein', Künstlerverein Walkmühle e.V., Wiesbaden, Germany

'Resurrectine', The Feldman Gallery, New York, USA

'Difference Engine: Manifestation II', The Black Mariah/Triskel, Ireland

'501 UP', Zero Gallery, London UK

'Can you Hear it', Nunnery Gallery, London UK curated by Franko B

'SURFACE WARP FACTOR', The Aubin Gallery, London UK Curated by

Fieldgate Gallery

Beijing Biennale

'Superunknown', Edel Assanti Gallery, London UK

2009            'The Future Can Wait', Truman Brewery, London – Curated by Ellis Rumley

Productions

'Gordon Cheung and Jonathan Seliger', Nassau Museum of Art, New York

'PS: Parsing Spirituality', Affirmation Arts, New York City, USA Curated

by Micaela Giovannotti

'Projections', Carré d'Art - Museum of Contemporary Art, Nimes France

'Unfold', Nettie Horn Gallery, London

'Fault Line - Art in the Age of Anxiety', Nunnery Gallery, curated by Sarah

Elson

'Drawing Biennale 2009, Drawing Room Gallery, London

'Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture', Curated by

Jessica Hough and Mónica Ramírez-'Montagut', Mills College Art Museum,

California USA

'New London School', Galerie Schuster, Berlin - curated by Zavier Ellis and

Simon Rumley

'40 Artists - 80 Drawings', The Drawing Gallery, Shropshire UK

'Fresh out of the box', The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall UK

'Lure and Seducer', Gallery Christoffer Egelund, Copenhagen, Denmark

'R O O M Collaborators', ROOM Gallery, London

'Reconstructing the Old House', The Nunnery Gallery, London (curated by

Benet Spencer – UK tour)

'The Art of Survival, Human Rights Art Auction event', Maddox Arts,

London

2008            'Maddox Arts Summer Show', Maddox Arts, London UK

'The Golden Record', Collective Gallery, Edingburgh Scotland

'FUTUREBLUEPERFECT' - Cafe Gallery Projects, London - Clare Goodwin &

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, LA, US

JERWOOD CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS, Jerwood Space, Union Street,

London - touring UK (cat.)

'Psychadelic', San Antonio Art Museum, Texas USA (Curated by David S.

Rubin (cat.))

'Painting the Glass House', Aldrich Museum and Yale Museum,

Connecticut, USA

(Curated: Jessica Hough and Monica Ramirez Montagut (cat.))

2007           'Currents: Recent Acquisitions', Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden,

Washington USA - Curated by Anne Ellegood

Art Basel 38, Switzerland, Alan Cristea Gallery , London
'STILL LIFE, STILL', T 1+2 Gallery, London UK - Curated by Hugh Mendes
'THE FUTURE CAN WAIT' - The Atlantis gallery, London UK
'The Lucifer Effect', Gallery Primo Alonso, London UK - Curated by Gordon

Cheung

Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London UK

'Second Life', Portman Gallery, London - Curated by Dean Kenning

'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

Drawing 2007, Drawingroom Project, Tannery, London UK

'Blood Meridian', Michael Janssen Galerie, Berlin, Germany (Curated by

David Hunt)

'Arrivals/Departures', URBIS Museum, Manchester (Curated: Sally Lai and

Yuen Fong Ling)

'Near Dark', Donna Beam Gallery, Las Vegas USA (Curated by Neal Rock)

'New Life and the Dream Garden', Fieldgate Gallery, London UK

2006           'Alan Cristea Editions', Alan Cristea Gallery, London (cat.)

'M*A*S*H', Design district, Miami (Curated by David Hunt and Michael

Sellinger)

'Fresh', Museum of Glass – Centre of Contemporary Art, Washington, USA

(Curated: Juli Cho (cat.))

'John Moores 24 Painting Prize Finalist', Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

Biennial, UK (Selected by Tracey Emin, Sir 'Peter Blake, Jason Brookes',

Ann Bukantas and Andrea Rose)

'The Stars Down to Earth', Nunnery Gallery, London (Curated by Andrew

Hunt (cat.))

'10th Planet, A04 Business Complex', London (Curated by 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 (Curated by David Hancock)

'Crave', Rawspace, London (Curated by Raffaella Guidobono)

'The Sleep of Reason', The Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

'Broken Romanticism', Standpoint Gallery (Curated by Steve Walter)

'Drawing 200, Drawingroom Project', Tannery, London

2005          BRITISH ART SHOW 6, BALTIC, Gateshead (Touring UK – Curated by

Alex Farquharson and Andrea Schlieker; organised by Hayward Gallery

(cat.))

'New London Kicks', Wooster Projects, New York (Curated by Simon Rumley

and Ed Burke)

'Art News, Raid Projects, LA (Curated by Hugh Mendes feat. Martin Creed

and Gillian Wearing)

'NLK ' (in association with Armory Show), Soho House, New York

ARCO Art Fair - Independents, Houldsworth Gallery, Madrid (Curated by

Contemporary Magazine)

'Faux Realism', Royal Academy Pumphouse Gallery, London

2004          Caution: Uneven Surfaces, Temporary Contemporary, London

'Art News', Three Colts Gallery, London (feat. Martin Creed, Gillian Wearing

and others)

Zoo Art Fair, London (with Flaca Gallery)

'Thermo 04', Lowry Museum, Salford

'Le Petit Paysage', Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool (Toured UK nationally)

'Apopalyptical', Houldsworth Gallery, London

Collage, Bloomberg Space, London

(feat. Chris Ofili, Frank Stella, Richard Prince, Robert Rauchenberg and

others)

2003          'Yes, I am a Long Way from Home', Nunnery, London (cat.)

Toured: Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury and

Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (feat. Peter Doig,

Paul Morrison, George Shaw, and others)

Intervention, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (feat. Ron Arad, Runa

Islam and others)

Drawing 100, Drawingroom Project, Tannery, London(feat. Julian Opie,

Paul Noble, Langlands and Bell, Rachel Whiteread and others)

Trans-, Kyoto Art Centre, Japan

ArtFutures, Contemporary Art Society, London

Portal-, Studio J, Osaka, Japan

2002          'Unscene', Gasworks, London (cat.)

2001          'CD1', Marlborough Fine Arts, London (cat.)

2000          'Assembly', Stepney City, London – Curator and organiser (cat.)

Gordon Cheung