Born:
1953
Residence:
New York, New York, USA
Nationality:
American, Chinese, Filipino
Trust:
APT Beijing
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Emily Cheng is the recipient of a fellowship from the Pollock Krasner Foundation, New York Foundation of the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and a Yaddo Fellowship.
Emily has lived and worked in New York City for the last 30
years exhibiting nationally and internationally. Her solo shows
include MOCA, Taipei, The Bronx Museum, Plum Blossom Gallery,
Winston Wachter Fine Art, Bravin Post Lee Gallery, Schmidt Dean
Gallery in Philadelphia, Louis Vuitton and Hanart Gallery in Hong
Kong, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Ayala Museum, Philippines;
Byron Cohen Gallery in Kansas City; The Cincinatti Center of
Contemporary Art, and Timezone 8, in Beijing. She has participated
in group exhibitions such as the Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong
Museum of Art; Contrast Gallery, Shanghai; Beijing Art Fair, China;
Gallery at the University of Bangkok, Thailand; Juan Silos Gallery,
Santander, Spain; Kidspace, MASS MoCA, MA; Contemporary Art Museum
at USF, Tampa, Florida; Yerba Buena Contemporary Art Center, SF;
National Academy of Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY;
Katonah Museum of Art, Christies, London and Sotheby’s,
NY.
In 2007,Timezone 8 published Emily Cheng, Chasing Clouds, A
decade of studies, a compendium of over 350 illustrated studies
made over the last ten years with essays by Johnson Chang and
Kevin Powers. Emily currently teaches Asian art history at School
of Visual Arts in New York. She received a BFA in painting from
Rhode Island School of Design and studied at the New York Studio
School for three years with Nicolas Carone, Leland Bell, Elaine de
Kooning and Joan Mitchell. In 2014, Emily will participate in the
residency program of the De Wang Highlands Art Center in Shenzhen
for four months.
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