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GORDON CHEUNG

1975 Born in London– lives and works in London

For exhibition, LANDSLIDE, 2008

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
1994-1995 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design - Art and Design Foundation Studies

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Altered States, Arizona State University Museum, USA

2009 Gordon Cheung, ROOM Gallery, London UK
------- GORDON CHEUNG & JONATHAN SELIGER, Nassau County Museum of Art, New York USA - Curated by Elaine Berger
------- The Promised Land, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York USA
------- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Walsall Art Gallery, Walsall UK
------- Wilderness of Mirrors, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt, Germany*

2008 Technophobia, Harris Museum, Preston UK*
------- Death By a Thousand Cuts, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester*
------- Paradise Lost, Alan Cristea Gallery, London*

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 GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Time is Sausage, DOMOBAAL, London
------- Difference Engine, Cake contemporary arts, Ireland
------- Future or Ruin, Charlie Smith Gallery, London UK
------- British Friends of the Art Museums of Israel (BFAMI) Charity Art Auction, Sotheby's 13-16 November and Louise T. Blouin Foundation, London 16-17 Nov – curated by Cathy Wills
------- IL CASTELLO DI RIVARA APRE LE CANTINE, CASTELLO DI RIVARA - Centre of Contemporary Art, Rivara, Italy - Curated by Francesca Solero
------- Uneasy Persuasion, The University of Hertfordshire Art and Design Gallery, Hatfield UK - Curated by Jamie Robinson from Carter Presents
------- Macmillan De'Longhi Art Auction for Macmillan Cancer Support, The Avenue, London UK
------- Projections, Carré d'Art - Museum of Contemporary Art, Nimes France
IMPACT Print Conference, Bristol, UK
------- 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 (toured to Ruskin) - Curated by Benet Spencer
------- The Art of Survival, Maddox Arts, London

2008 PS: Parsing Spirituality Affirmation Arts, New York City, USA Curated by Micaela Giovannotti
------ The Other Mainstream II: Selections from the Collection of Mikki and Stanley Weithorn
------ Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, USA
------ PHANTAKALIFRAGILISTIGEXPIALIGETISCH, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt, Germany
------ Timbuktu, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin, Ireland
------ Landslide, I-Myu Gallery, London UK
------ Wharf Road Projects - Dystopia for all, Carter Presents at Wharf Road Projects UK
------ The Future Can Wait, Truman Brewery - Ellis Rumley Projects UK
------ 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, USA
------ JERWOOD CONTEMPORARY PAINTERS, Jerwood Space, Union Street, London - touring UK (cat.)
------ Psychedelic, San Antonio Art Museum, Texas USA - Curated by David S. Rubin (cat.)*
------ Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture, Aldrich Museum and Yale Museum, Connecticut, Mills Museum, California USA - Curated: Jessica Hough (Aldrich curator) and Monica Ramirez Montagut (Guggenheim curator of Architecture and Design) (cat.)*
------ Whatever the Weather, Sunderland Museum & Winter Gardens, Sunderland UK

2007 Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington USA - Curated by Anne Ellegood
------- STILL LIFE, STILL, T 1+2 Gallery, London UK - Curated by Hugh Mendes
------- THE FUTURE CAN WAIT, The Atlantis gallery, London UK - curated by Ellis Rumley Projects
------- The Lucifer Effect, Gallery Primo Alonso, London UK - Curated by Gordon Cheung
------- Dorian Gray Project: Happy Days, John Jones Gallery, London - Curated by Infinity Bunce and Katherine Lubar
------- Art Basel 38, Switzerland, Alan Cristea Gallery
------- 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
------- New Life and the Dream Garden, Fieldgate Gallery, London UK
------- Dream Home, Novas Contemporary Art Centre, London UK
------- Blood Meridian, Michael Janssen Galerie, Berlin, Germany - Curated by David Hunt
------- The Newspaper, INDO bar 133 Whitechapel Road, London UK - curated by Eleanor Brown
------- Arrivals/Departures, URBIS Museum, Manchester UK- Curated by Sally Lai and Yuen Fong Ling
------- Near Dark, Donna Beam Gallery, Las Vegas USA - Curated by Neal Rock

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
------- BRITISH ART SHOW 6, various UK venues across Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol

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 auchenberg 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.)

AWARD AND RESIDENCIES
2007 Artes Mundi Prize 3 Nomination, Selected by Isabel Carlos and Bisi Silva

2006 Braziers International Artists Workshop, UK (cat.)
------- DeciBel Award Finalist, Judges: Okwui Enwezor, David Thorp, Sally Tallant, and others

2005 Hong Kong and China Research Research Trip - Funded by ACE and A-n
------- Arts Council of England Individual Arts Award

2004 BOC Emerging Artist Award Finalist -(Selected by Sarah kent, Karen Wright, Marcus Harvey, Roy Exley)
------- Pizza Express Prospects Prize Finalist, Tea Building, London(Selected by Tim Marlow, Fiona Bradley, Simon Groom, Graham Gussin and Rachel Lowe)
------- Jerwood Drawing Prize Finalist – (Toured UK (cat.))
------- Breathe Residency, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester

2003 Triangle Arts Trust International Artist Fellowship - Nominated by Gasworks Gallery
------- VASL Residency, Pakistan (cat.)
------- Arts Council England International Art Award
------- British Council International Arts Award
------- Diffuse Asia, Kyoto Art Centre Residency, Japan
------- Lexmark European Painting Prize Finalist, London

2000 Socrates Travel Award for Berlin
------- John Minton Travel Award for Paris
------- TI Travel Award for Budapest
------- Paris Studio Residency, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris
------- The Gilchrist-Fisher Award Finalist, Rhg, London (inc catalogue)

1999 Space Studio Residency 98/99, Space Studios, Old Street, London

1998 Arte Viva, Residency and competition - Painting First PrizeWinner, Italy (Judges: Enzo Cucchi and Pomodoro Giacometti)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
------- 9.1.2007 ‘Cyberman Who Fell to Earth’, Times T2, Laura Gasgoigne
------- 11.05 'Gordon Cheung', Dazed and Confused, vol.2 issue 32, p.34, Iphgenia Baal (image featured)
------- 11.10.2005‘British Art Show 6’, Channel 5 presented by Tim Marlow
------- 7.10.2005‘British Art Show 6’, Newsnight Review, BBC2
------- 9.2005 ‘Gordon Cheung’, I-d Magazine p.98, Charlie Danby (image featured)
------- 6.6.2005 'As Hirst hits 40, meet new faces of UK Art Scene', The Independent p.3, Arifa Akbar (image featured)
------- 1.2005 ‘Gordon Cheung’, Flash Art no.240 p.72, Roy Exley (image featured)
------- 10.2004 ‘Gordon Cheung’, Financial Times Weekend magazine, Jackie Wullschlager (image featured)
------- 5.2004 ‘Breathing Space’, City life, Tim Birch (image featured)
------- 5.2004 ‘Gordon Cheung’, Metro (Manchester), (image featured)
------- 5.2004 ‘Pizza Express Prospects Prize’, Metro (London), Fisun Guner (image featured)
------- 5.2004 ‘Collage’, Contemporary Magazine
------- 5.2004 ‘Apopolyptical’, Art Monthly, David Barrett (image featured)
------- 5.2004 ‘Collage’ Art Monthly, Eliza Williams
------- 5.2004 ‘Collage’, Kultureflash
------- 10.2003 ‘Intervention’, Gaurdian The Guide (image featured)
------- 4.2003 ‘Yes I am a Long Way from Home’, Contemporary
------- 4.2003 ‘Yes I am a Long Way from Home’, Art Monthly, Sara Harrison (image featured)
------- 4.2003 ‘Yes I am a Long Way from Home’ Time Out, Sarah Kent
------- 4.2003 ‘Yes I am a Long Way from Home’ Art Review
------- 7.2002 ‘Gordon Cheung’, Radio interview, The Glass Shrimp, Resonace FM
------- 7.2002 ‘Gordon Cheung’, What’s On
------- 7.2002 ‘Gordon Cheung’, Time Out Website, Arts
------- 5.6.2002 ‘Unscene’, Gasworks Gallery, Modern Painters
------- 30.4.2002 ‘Unscene’, Gasworks Gallery, The Gaurdian - The Guide, Jessica Lack
------- 24.4.2002 ‘Unscene’, Gasworks Gallery, Time Out, no.1653, Jane Tynan
------- 13.3.2002 ‘Wellworth’, Keith Talent Gallery, Time Out, no.1647, Martin Herbert
------- 2001 ‘Class of 2001 -Top 20 MA Graduates’, Art Review supplement
------- 6.2001 Surviving in the Arts, BBC Radio, London
------- 4.6.2001 ‘Lessons in the art of survival’, The Daily Telegraph, Will Bennett
------- 27.12.2000 Assembly - The Best Art Shows of 2000, The Big Issue, no.418, Helen Sumpter
------- 11.2000 ‘Fakescape’, Frieze, no.55, Neal Brown (see also www.frieze.com)
------- 11.2000 ‘Fakescape’, Flash Art
------- 18.10.2000 ‘Assembly’, Time Out, no.1574
------- 1.10.2000 ‘Go See..Assembly’, The Observer Magazine
------- 4.8.2000 ‘Fakescape’, The Guardian, London, Jonathon Jones
------- 23.8.2000 ‘Fakescape’, Time Out, London, Izi Glover