Gordon Cheung is of Hong Kong origin and was born in London in 1975, where he lives and works. He graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2001 and exhibits internationally.
Cheung was in the largest and most ambitious survey of recent developments in art from the UK, The British Art Show 6 and The John Moores Painting 24. Solo shows includes ‘The Promised Land’ at the Jack Shainman Gallery, New York and ‘The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse’, at The New Art Gallery Walsall in the UK. Cheung’s first US solo museum exhibition was at the Arizona State University Art Museum in 2010.
Cheung’s works are in international collections including the Hirshhorn Museum, Whitworth Museum, ASU Art Museum, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Knoxville Art Museum, Hiscox Collection, Progressive Arts Collection, UBS Collection and the Gottesman Collection.
His work captures the “hallucinations” between a virtual and real world oscillating between utopia and dystopia. His work shows the tendency of a civilization’s global collapse where moral, cultural, economic, and environmental crises have spun out of control. Spiritual undertones are mixed with familiar contemporary images including sources from popular media and historical painting.
Cheung has recently used video animation and sculpture in his work, but focuses mainly on painting. He chooses bold colors and often paints on dense collages made from financial index of British newspapers with ink, oil, acrylic gel and spray paint.
During an interview for “Art World” he declared about his work: “They’re meant to be artificially luminous, a metaphor perhaps for the loss of that utopian vision of the future after the millennium bug threat, the dot com crash, the collapse of Enron, the war on terror- and all before the current recession. Yet it’s also meant to suggest a glimmer of hope.”
