Emily Cheng Explained

Emily Cheng
Birth Date:1953 7, df=yes
Birth Place:New York City, US
Field:Painting
Education:Rhode Island School of Design, New York Studio School

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".[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.

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

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[2]

Emily Cheng has lived and worked in New York City since 1977 and teaches Asian Art History at the School of Visual Arts[6]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Smith. Roberta. Emily Cheng and Lois Connor -- 'Jewel in the Heart'. The New York Times . June 25, 2004. September 6, 2017 .
  2. Web site: Emily Cheng: Chasing Clouds: A Decade of Studies. Asia Art Archive . August 14, 2017.
  3. Web site: Artist Emily Cheng . hanart TZ Gallery . 14 August 2017.
  4. Web site: Interview with Emily Cheng . Shenzhen Art Museum . 14 August 2017.
  5. Web site: Artist Emily Cheng . hanart TZ Gallery . 31 July 2015 . August 14, 2017.
  6. Web site: Fine artist, art historian. SVA NYC. School of Visual Arts New York . August 28, 2017.
  7. Web site: The Art Scene: Emily Cheng at Ille. The East Hampton Star . September 13, 2017.
  8. Web site: Interview with Emily Cheng . Shenzhen Art Museum . September 11, 2017.
  9. Web site: Charting Sacred Territories: Holy Morphosis–A Solo Exhibition by Emily Cheng . Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei. MOCA Taipei . September 11, 2017.
  10. Web site: Hanart Square / Hanart TZ Current Exhibition Xu Longsen (Mar 6 – 28, 2015) . My Art Guides, Lightbox Publishing Inc . Art Guide Hong Kong . September 11, 2017.
  11. Web site: Here & Now: Chapter III Towards Transculturalism. Museum of Chinese in America . September 11, 2017.
  12. Web site: Third Guangzhou Triennial reviews and highlights. Art Radar Asia. September 11, 2017.
  13. [Jon Cone]
  14. Web site: Visiting Artist: Emily Cheng . Vermont Studio Center . 27 January 2017 . September 13, 2017.
  15. Web site: Emily Cheng . w.ming art . W. Ming Art . September 13, 2017.
  16. Web site: Emily Cheng Fine artist, art historian . School of Visual Arts New York . SVA NYC . September 13, 2017.
  17. Web site: Meanders and Morphosis : Charting the Nature of Interior Spaces . Hanart TZ Gallery . September 13, 2017.

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