Gordon Cheung is a contemporary multi-media artist and has developed an innovative approach to making art, which blurs virtual and actual reality to reflect on the existential questions of what it means to be human in civilizations with histories written by victors. Cheung raises questions and critiques the effects of global capitalism, its underlying mechanisms of power on our perception of identity, territory and sense of belonging. These narratives are refracted through the prisms of culture, mythology, religion, and politics into dreamlike spaces of urban surreal worlds that are rooted in his in-between identity.
Cheung graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting in 1998 from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, and earned his Masters of Fine Arts in 2001 from the Royal College of Art in London. Selected shows include “The Garden Of Perfect Brightness” at The Atkinson in Southport, UK (2023), “Arrow To Heaven” at Almine Rech Gallery in Paris, France (2022), “Tears Of Paradise” at Edel Assanti in London, UK (2020), “Here Be Dragons” at Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery in Nottingham, UK (2016) , “The Light that Burns Twice as Bright” at Cristea Roberts Gallery in London, UK (2011), and “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse” at The New Art Gallery Walsall in Walsall, UK (2009).
His works are held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, D.C., the Whitworth Art Museum in Manchester, Royal College of Art in London, and the British Museum, amongst others. He lives and works in London.
