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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". She has won numerous awards including
Pollock-Krasner Foundation The Pollock-Krasner Foundation was established in 1985 for the purpose of providing funding to visual artists internationally to further their artistic practices. It was established at the bequest of Lee Krasner, who was an American abstract expr ...
Fellowship, 2010,
New York Foundation for the Arts The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is an independent 501(c)(3) charity, funded through government, foundation, corporate, and individual support, established in 1971. It is part of a network of national not-for-profit arts organizations ...
Fellowship, 1996,
Yaddo Yaddo is an artists' community located on a estate in Saratoga Springs, New York. Its mission is "to nurture the creative process by providing an opportunity for artists to work without interruption in a supportive environment.". On March  ...
Residency, 1995,
National Endowment for the Arts The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created in 1965 as an independent agency of the feder ...
Fellowship, 1982–1983. Cheng received her BFA in 1975 from the
Rhode Island School of Design The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD , pronounced "Riz-D") is a private art and design school in Providence, Rhode Island. The school was founded as a coeducational institution in 1877 by Helen Adelia Rowe Metcalf, who sought to increase th ...
and attended the
New York Studio School The New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture at 8 West 8th Street, in Greenwich Village, Manhattan, New York City, New York State is an art school formed in 1963 by a group of students and their teacher, Mercedes Matter, all of ...
. 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 The Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MoCA Taipei; ) is a museum of contemporary art, located in Datong District, Taipei, Taiwan. History The museum building was built during the Japanese rule in 1921 for what became . After the handover of ...
, Taiwan (2011) and traveled to Hanart TZ Gallery in (2015), Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, (2015) 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. 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 Johnson Chang (Cantonese: Chang Tsong-zung; ) is a curator and dealer of contemporary Chinese art. He is a co-founder of the Asia Art Archive (AAA) in Hong Kong and a guest professor of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou. ''The New York Times'' de ...
Emily Cheng has lived and worked in New York City since 1977 and teaches Asian Art History at the
School of Visual Arts The School of Visual Arts New York City (SVA NYC) is a private for-profit art school in New York City. It was founded in 1947 and is a member of the Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design. History This school was started by Silas ...


Selected solo exhibitions

* ''Ille Arts'', Amagansett, New York, (2017, 2014) * ''Shenzhen Art Museum'', Shenzhen, China, (2015) * ''Hanart T.Z. Gallery'', Hong Kong, (2015, 2011, 1996) * ''Zane Bennett Contemporary'', Santa Fe, New Mexico, (2013) * ''Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei'', Taiwan (2011) * ''Louis Vuitton Maison'', Kowloon, Hong Kong, (2010) * ''
Ayala Museum The Ayala Museum is a museum in Makati, Metro Manila, Philippines. It is run privately by the Ayala Foundation and houses archaeological, ethnographic, historical, fine arts, numismatics, and ecclesiastical exhibits. Since its establishment in ...
'' 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 The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, also branded as the M, is a non-profit art museum located in Bonifacio Global City (BGC) in Taguig, that exhibits local and international contemporary art. It bills itself as the Philippines' premier museum fo ...
'', Philippines (1997) * ''John Post Lee Gallery'', New York, NY, Projects Room (1997) * ''
Contemporary Arts Center The Contemporary Arts Center (abbreviated CAC) is a contemporary art museum in Cincinnati, Ohio and one of the first contemporary art institutions in the United States. The CAC is a non-collecting museum that focuses on new developments in pain ...
'', 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 White Columns is New York City's oldest alternative non-profit art space. White Columns is known as a showcase for up-and-coming artists, and is primarily devoted to emerging artists who are not affiliated with galleries. All work submitted i ...
'', New York, NY, (1985)


Selected group exhibitions

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Art Basel Hong Kong Art Basel is a for-profit, privately owned and managed, international art fair staged annually in Basel (Switzerland), Miami Beach (US), Hong Kong and Paris. Art Basel provides a platform for galleries to show and sell their work to buyers, and ...
'','' (Hanart Gallery)'', Hong Kong, 2017 * ''
China Institute China Institute in America is a nonprofit educational and cultural institution based in New York City. Its work is focused on promoting Chinese culture and history through talks, business initiatives, language immersion programs, and gallery exh ...
'', New York, NY, 2014 * ''Beijing Art Fair'', Beijing, China, 2013 * ''
Museum of Chinese in America The Museum of Chinese in America (; abbreviated MOCA) is a museum in New York City which exhibits Chinese American history. It is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) education and cultural institution that presents the living history, heritage, culture, and ...
'' New York, NY, 2010 * ''Kidspace,'' ''
MASS MoCA The Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) is a museum in a converted Arnold Print Works factory building complex located in North Adams, Massachusetts. It is one of the largest centers for contemporary visual art and performing ...
'', Williamstown, MA, 2010, 2005 * ''
Museum of Contemporary Art Museum of Contemporary Art (often abbreviated to MCA, MoCA or MOCA) may refer to: Africa * Museum of Contemporary Art (Tangier), Morocco, officially le Galerie d'Art Contemporain Mohamed Drissi Asia East Asia * Museum of Contemporary Art Shanghai ...
'', Shanghai, China, 2009 * ''Guangzhou Triennial'', Guangdong, China, 2009 * ''Museum of Art'', Guangzhou, China, 2008 * ''Contrast Gallery'', Shanghai and Beijing, China, 2008 * '' University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum'', Tampa, Florida, 2006 * ''
Hong Kong Arts Centre Hong Kong Arts Centre (HKAC; ) is a non-profit arts institution and art museum established in 1977. It promotes contemporary performing arts, visual arts, film and video arts. It also provides arts education. Its rival is the government-managed ...
'', Hong Kong, 2004 * ''
American Academy of Art The American Academy of Art College was a private for-profit art school in Chicago, Illinois. It was founded in 1923 for the education of fine and commercial arts students. In July 2024, the college announced its pending closure. History The ...
'', New York, New York, 2004 * ''Longmarch Project'', Beijing, China, 2002 * ''
Sotheby’s Sotheby's ( ) is a British-founded multinational corporation with headquarters in New York City. It is one of the world's largest brokers of fine and decorative art, jewellery, and collectibles. It has 80 locations in 40 countries, and maintain ...
'', New York, NY, 2001 * ''Newhouse Center, Snug Harbor Cultural Center'', Staten Island, NY, 2000 * ''
Katonah Museum of Art The Katonah Museum of Art is a non-collecting institution geared towards visual arts, located in Katonah, New York. It does not have a permanent collection, but holds temporary exhibitions. The museum was founded in 1953, in one room at the loc ...
'', Katonah, NY, 2000 * ''National Academy and Museum'', NY, 2000 * ''Municipal Museum of Gyor'', Hungary, 1999 * ''
New Museum of Contemporary Art The New Museum of Contemporary Art is a museum at 235 Bowery, on the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It was founded in 1977 by Marcia Tucker. History The museum originally opened in a space in the Graduate Center of the then-name ...
'', New York, NY, 1998 * ''De Cordova Museum'' and the ''
Computer Museum A computer museum is devoted to the study of historic computer hardware and software, where a "museum" is a "permanent institution in the service of society and of its development, open to the public, which acquires, conserves, researches, comm ...
'', Boston, MA, 1994 * ''International Graphic Biennial'', Muveszeti Museum, Hungary, 1995 * ''
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (YBCA) is a multi-disciplinary Contemporary art, contemporary arts center in San Francisco, California, United States. Located in Yerba Buena Gardens, YBCA features visual art, performance, and film/video that cel ...
'', San Francisco, CA, 1994 * ''
Drawing Center The Drawing Center is a museum and a nonprofit exhibition space in Manhattan, New York City, that focuses on the exhibition of drawings, both historical and contemporary. History The Drawing Center was founded by former assistant curator of dr ...
'', NY; traveled to '' Corcoran'', Washington D.C., ''Santa Monica Museum of Art'', Santa Monica CA; ''The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis'', St. Louis MO; American Center, Paris, France, 1993 * ''Cone Editions Gallery'', New York 1990 * ''Anina Nosei Gallery'', New York, 1988 * ''
Greenville County Museum of Art The Greenville County Museum of Art (GCMA) is an art museum located in Greenville, South Carolina. Its collections focus mainly on American art, and its holdings include works by Andrew Wyeth, Jasper Johns (raised in South Carolina), William Hen ...
'', South Carolina, 1988 * ''
North Carolina Museum of Art The North Carolina Museum of Art (NCMA) is an art museum in Raleigh, North Carolina. It opened in 1956 as the first major museum collection in the country to be formed by state legislation and funding. Since the initial 1947 appropriation that ...
'', North Carolina, 1988 * ''
Hallwalls Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center (aka Hallwalls) is a non-profit art organization located in Buffalo, New York. Since 1974, Hallwalls has shown and shows the work of contemporary artists of diverse backgrounds who work in film, video, literatu ...
'', Buffalo, NY, 1988 * ''Grace Borgenicht Gallery'', New York, 1986 * ''
Tibor de Nagy The Tibor de Nagy Gallery is an art gallery located on Rivington Street on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. History Tibor de Nagy Gallery is among the earliest modern art galleries in New York City. The gallery was founded by Tibor de Nagy (1 ...
'', New York, 1985 * '' Asian American Arts Centre'', New York, 1985


Awards

* ''Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship'', 2010 * ''New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship'', 1996 * ''Yaddo Residency'', 1995 * ''National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship'', 1982-1983


Bibliography

* Books by Emily Cheng include ''Emily Cheng: Chasing Clouds: A Decade of Studies'' - Publisher: Blue Kingfisher; n edition (March 1, 2008) * ''The Figure: Another Side of Modernism'' – Publisher: Snug Haror Cultural Center SHCC; Et Al (2000)


References

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External links


Website Emily Cheng

The Shanghai Restoration Project - BOARdom feat. artwork by Emily Cheng

The Works Emily Cheng at Hanart

Emily Cheng, Chasing Clouds, Music by Shanghai Restoration Project
{{DEFAULTSORT:Cheng, Emily SyCip 1953 births Living people American artists of Chinese descent American contemporary painters Painters from New York City New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture alumni Rhode Island School of Design alumni