{{Short description|American painter}} {{Infobox artist | name = Emily Cheng | image = Emily Cheng.jpg | caption = Cheng in her studio | birth_date= {{Birth date|df=yes|1953|07|28}} | birth_place= New York City, US | death_date= | death_place= | field = Painting | education= Rhode Island School of Design, New York Studio School | practice= | website= {{URL|www.emilycheng.com}} }}
thumb|Emily Cheng, Installation Shenzhen Art Museum, 2015
thumb|Emily Cheng, AboveBelowBagua, 2013
'''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".<ref>{{cite news |last=Smith|first=Roberta|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/06/25/arts/art-in-review-emily-cheng-and-lois-connor-jewel-in-the-heart.html |title=Emily Cheng and Lois Connor -- 'Jewel in the Heart'|work=The New York Times |date=June 25, 2004| accessdate= September 6, 2017 }}</ref> 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.
{{blockquote| Painting for me, is the evidence of an inquiry…It is the postulation made physical….It is the wall that penetrates….It is the mind reminded. It is the hunch made vivid. It is the reworking of the familiar. It is the shadow of the unfamiliar. It is the acting out of desire. It is the probe of limits. It is the life imaged. It is the eye engaged. Painting is luxury bounded.<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.nytimes.com/2000/06/04/nyregion/playing-in-the-neighborhood-572870.html?mcubz=1|title= Artist statement, The Figure, Another Side of Modernism | work=The New York Times |date= 4 June 2000 |access-date=September 14, 2017|last1= Fass |first1= Allison |last2= Murray |first2= Liz }}</ref>}}
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)<ref name="auto">{{cite web |url= http://www.aaa.org.hk/en/collection/search/library/emily-cheng-chasing-clouds-a-decade-of-studies |title=Emily Cheng: Chasing Clouds: A Decade of Studies| website=Asia Art Archive |access-date=August 14, 2017}}</ref> and traveled to Hanart TZ Gallery in (2015),<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.hanart.com/artist/emily-cheng/?lang=en|title=Artist Emily Cheng | website=hanart TZ Gallery |access-date=14 August 2017}}</ref> Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, (2015)<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.szam.org/doc/detail.aspx?doc_id=620|title= Interview with Emily Cheng|website= Shenzhen Art Museum|access-date= 14 August 2017|archive-date= 2 August 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170802175936/http://www.szam.org/doc/detail.aspx?doc_id=620|url-status= dead}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.hanart.com/artist/emily-cheng/?lang=en|title=Artist Emily Cheng | website=hanart TZ Gallery |date=31 July 2015 |access-date=August 14, 2017}}</ref>
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 <ref name="auto"/>
Emily Cheng has lived and worked in New York City since 1977 and teaches Asian Art History at the School of Visual Arts<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.sva.edu/faculty/emily-cheng|title=Fine artist, art historian| publisher=SVA NYC| website=School of Visual Arts New York |access-date=August 28, 2017}}</ref>
== Selected solo exhibitions == * ''Ille Arts'', Amagansett, New York, (2017, 2014)<ref>{{cite web |url= http://easthamptonstar.com/Arts/2014909/Art-Scene-091114 |title= The Art Scene: Emily Cheng at Ille |website= The East Hampton Star |access-date= September 13, 2017 |archive-date= April 19, 2015 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20150419174817/http://easthamptonstar.com/Arts/2014909/Art-Scene-091114 |url-status= dead }}</ref> * ''Shenzhen Art Museum'', Shenzhen, China, (2015)<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.szam.org/doc/detail.aspx?doc_id=620|title= Interview with Emily Cheng|website= Shenzhen Art Museum|access-date= September 11, 2017|archive-date= September 12, 2017|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170912012515/http://www.szam.org/doc/detail.aspx?doc_id=620|url-status= dead}}</ref> * ''Hanart T.Z. Gallery'', Hong Kong, (2015, 2011, 1996) * ''Zane Bennett Contemporary'', Santa Fe, New Mexico, (2013) * ''Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei'', Taiwan (2011)<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.mocataipei.org.tw/index.php/2012-01-12-03-36-46/past-exhibitions/121-2011exhibition/578-2012-08-14-05-21-40|title= Charting Sacred Territories: Holy Morphosis–A Solo Exhibition by Emily Cheng | publisher= Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei| website= MOCA Taipei |access-date=September 11, 2017}}</ref> * ''Louis Vuitton Maison'', Kowloon, Hong Kong, (2010) * ''Ayala Museum'' 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'', Philippines (1997) * ''John Post Lee Gallery'', New York, NY, Projects Room (1997) * ''Contemporary Arts Center'', 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'', New York, NY, (1985)
== Selected group exhibitions == * ''Art Basel Hong Kong'','' (Hanart Gallery)'', Hong Kong, 2017<ref>{{cite web|url= http://myartguides.com/mediakit/guides-pdf/MY_AG_Hong_Kong_2015_web.pdf |title= Hanart Square / Hanart TZ Current Exhibition Xu Longsen (Mar 6 – 28, 2015) | publisher= My Art Guides, Lightbox Publishing Inc | website= Art Guide Hong Kong |access-date=September 11, 2017}}</ref> * ''China Institute'', New York, NY, 2014 * ''Beijing Art Fair'', Beijing, China, 2013 * ''Museum of Chinese in America'' New York, NY, 2010<ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.mocanyc.org/exhibitions/past?page=3 |title= Here & Now: Chapter III Towards Transculturalism |website= Museum of Chinese in America |access-date= September 11, 2017 |archive-date= September 12, 2017 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170912055130/http://www.mocanyc.org/exhibitions/past?page=3 |url-status= dead }}</ref> * ''Kidspace,'' ''MASS MoCA'', Williamstown, MA, 2010, 2005 * ''Museum of Contemporary Art'', Shanghai, China, 2009 * ''Guangzhou Triennial'', Guangdong, China, 2009<ref>{{cite web|url= https://artradarasia.wordpress.com/tag/emily-cheng/|title= Third Guangzhou Triennial reviews and highlights| website= Art Radar Asia|access-date=September 11, 2017}}</ref> * ''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, 2004 * ''American Academy of Art'', New York, New York, 2004 * ''Longmarch Project'', Beijing, China, 2002 * ''Sotheby’s'', New York, NY, 2001 * ''Newhouse Center, Snug Harbor Cultural Center'', Staten Island, NY, 2000 * ''Katonah Museum of Art'', Katonah, NY, 2000 * ''National Academy and Museum'', NY, 2000 * ''Municipal Museum of Gyor'', Hungary, 1999 * ''New Museum of Contemporary Art'', New York, NY, 1998 * ''De Cordova Museum'' and the ''Computer Museum'', Boston, MA, 1994 * ''International Graphic Biennial'', Muveszeti Museum, Hungary, 1995 * ''Yerba Buena Center for the Arts'', San Francisco, CA, 1994 * ''Drawing Center'', 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<ref>Jon Cone</ref>{{Circular reference|date=November 2020}} * ''Anina Nosei Gallery'', New York, 1988 * ''Greenville County Museum of Art'', South Carolina, 1988 * ''North Carolina Museum of Art'', North Carolina, 1988 * ''Hallwalls'', Buffalo, NY, 1988 * ''Grace Borgenicht Gallery'', New York, 1986 * ''Tibor de Nagy'', New York, 1985 * ''Asian American Arts Centre'', New York, 1985
== Awards == * ''Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship'', 2010<ref>{{cite web|url= http://vermontstudiocenter.org/calendar/emily-cheng-2017 |title= Visiting Artist: Emily Cheng | website= Vermont Studio Center |date= 27 January 2017 |access-date=September 13, 2017}}</ref> * ''New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship'', 1996<ref>{{cite web|url= http://images.wmingart.com/www_wmingart_com/Emily_Cheng_CV.pdf |title= Emily Cheng | publisher= w.ming art | website= W. Ming Art |access-date=September 13, 2017}}</ref> * ''Yaddo Residency'', 1995<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.sva.edu/faculty/emily-cheng|title= Emily Cheng Fine artist, art historian | publisher= School of Visual Arts New York | website= SVA NYC | access-date=September 13, 2017}}</ref> * ''National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship'', 1982-1983<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.artinasia.com/galleryDetail.php?catID=1&galleryID=75&view=7&eventID=10300 |title= Meanders and Morphosis : Charting the Nature of Interior Spaces | website= Hanart TZ Gallery |access-date=September 13, 2017}}</ref>
== Bibliography == * Books by Emily Cheng include ''Emily Cheng: Chasing Clouds: A Decade of Studies'' - Publisher: Blue Kingfisher; n edition (March 1, 2008) {{ISBN|9889961768}} * ''The Figure: Another Side of Modernism'' – Publisher: Snug Haror Cultural Center SHCC; Et Al (2000) {{ISBN| 096042542X}}
== References == {{Reflist}} * {{cite web|url=https://hyperallergic.com/389340/beer-with-a-painter-emily-cheng/ |title= Beer with a Painter: Emily Cheng | publisher= Hyperallergic Media Inc.| website=Hyperallergic |date= 8 July 2017 |access-date=August 28, 2017}} * {{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/g-roger-denson/emily-cheng-faith-science_b_891470.html# |title= In Taipei And Hong Kong, Emily Cheng Bridges Science And Faith | website=Huffpost |date= 8 July 2011 |access-date=August 28, 2017}} * {{cite web|url=http://yishu-online.com/browse-articles/?65 |title= Parsing Form and Spirit: Emily Cheng in Conversation with Suzanne de Vegh | publisher=Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art | website=Yishu |access-date=August 28, 2017}} * {{cite web|url=http://yishu-online.com/browse-articles/?444 |title= Ornament as Knowledge, Ornament as Desire: The Art of Emily Cheng | publisher= Yishu | website= Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art' |access-date=August 28, 2017}}
== External links == * [http://www.emilycheng.com/ Website Emily Cheng ] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuTcliMG_nE The Shanghai Restoration Project - BOARdom feat. artwork by Emily Cheng ] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYsoTZCXv7Y The Works Emily Cheng at Hanart] * [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3G4D1Rpw7Q Emily Cheng, Chasing Clouds, Music by Shanghai Restoration Project]
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