Sze Tsung Leong (born 1970) is an American and British photographer and artist interested in

urban studies Urban studies is based on the study of the urban development of cities and regions—it makes up the theory portion of the field of urban planning. This includes studying the history of city development from an architectural point of view, to th ...

Biography

Born in

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, he grew up there and in Los Angeles. He then studied at the

Art Center College of Design The ArtCenter College of Design is a private art college in Pasadena, California. It was incorporated in 1930 as a degree-granting institution of higher learning in the US created specifically for students of both the visual arts and design. ...

in Pasadena, California, and earned architecture degrees from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

and the

Harvard Graduate School of Design The Harvard Graduate School of Design (GSD) is the graduate school of design at Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It offers master's and doctoral programs in architecture, landscape architecture, urba ...

, where he was awarded the Wheelwright Prize. Leong received the

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...

in 2005. He now lives in New York City.

Publications

* (contributor and co-editor) Harvard ''Project on the City'' (organized by

Rem Koolhaas Remment Lucas Koolhaas (; born 17 November 1944) is a Dutch architect, architectural theory, architectural theorist, urbanist and Professor in Practice of Architecture and Urban Design at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Graduate School of ...

): volumes on ''Great Leap Forward'' and ''Guide to Shopping''. Both vols. pub. Cologne, 2002. * ''History Images''. Photographs of urban spaces and construction projects in China. Steidl, 2007. . * ''Horizons''. A collection of landscape photographs. Yossi Milo Gallery, 2008. . Exhibition catalogue. **Berlin and Stuttgart: Hatje Cantz, 2014. . With essays by Pico Iyer, Duncan Forbes, Joshua Chuang, Leong, and Charlotte Cotton.

Collections

Leong's work is held in the following permanent collections: *

Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially referred to as the Met, is an Encyclopedic museum, encyclopedic art museum in New York City. By floor area, it is the List of largest museums, third-largest museum in the world and the List of larg ...

, New York: 2 prints (as of 4 October 2021) *

Minneapolis Institute of Art The Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia) is an arts museum located in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States. Home to more than 90,000 works of art representing 5,000 years of world history, Mia is one of the List of largest art museums, largest ar ...

, Minneapolis, MN: 1 print (as of 4 October 2021) *

Museum of Contemporary Photography A museum is an institution dedicated to displaying or preserving culturally or scientifically significant objects. Many museums have exhibitions of these objects on public display, and some have private collections that are used by researchers ...

, Chicago, IL: 2 prints (as of 4 October 2021) *

Museum of Modern Art The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street (Manhattan), 53rd Street between Fifth Avenue, Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, a ...

, New York: 7 prints (as of 4 October 2021) *

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) is a modern art, modern and contemporary art museum and nonprofit organization located in San Francisco, California. SFMOMA was the first museum on the West Coast devoted solely to 20th-century art ...

, San Francisco: 4 prints (as of 4 October 2021)

References

External links

Official websiteInterview with Stanley Wolukau-Wanambwa, thegreatleapsideways
{{DEFAULTSORT:Leong, Sze Tsung American photographers Living people Mexican emigrants to the United States UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design alumni Harvard Graduate School of Design alumni 1970 births Wheelwright Prize winners