Overview

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.

Works
  • Gordon Cheung 張逸斌, Apricot Blossom Spring Villa (Hangzhou), 2024
    Apricot Blossom Spring Villa (Hangzhou), 2024
  • Gordon Cheung 張逸斌, Celestial Dance of Time, 2025
    Celestial Dance of Time, 2025
  • Gordon Cheung 張逸斌, Consensual Hallucination, 2024
    Consensual Hallucination, 2024
  • Gordon Cheung 張逸斌, Eternal Flux 恒久流變, 2024
    Eternal Flux 恒久流變, 2024
  • Gordon Cheung 張逸斌, Eternal Spring, 2025
    Eternal Spring, 2025
  • Gordon Cheung 張逸斌, Ghost in the Shell, 2023
    Ghost in the Shell, 2023
  • Gordon Cheung 張逸斌, Minotaur 2 (Study), 2016
    Minotaur 2 (Study), 2016
  • Gordon Cheung 張逸斌, New Territories, 2025
    New Territories, 2025
  • Gordon Cheung 張逸斌, Peace and Harmony, 2025
    Peace and Harmony, 2025
  • Gordon Cheung 張逸斌, Speculative Perspective 22, 2025
    Speculative Perspective 22, 2025
  • Gordon Cheung 張逸斌, Tale of Nine Dragons (Nanjing), 2025
    Tale of Nine Dragons (Nanjing), 2025
  • Gordon Cheung 張逸斌, Towers of Water (Study), 2020
    Towers of Water (Study), 2020
  • Gordon Cheung 張逸斌, Tulip Paradox 8, 2025
    Tulip Paradox 8, 2025
  • Gordon Cheung 張逸斌, Window #22, 2019
    Window #22, 2019
  • Gordon Cheung 張逸斌, Window #23, 2019
    Window #23, 2019
  • Gordon Cheung 張逸斌, Window #26, 2018
    Window #26, 2018
  • Gordon Cheung 張逸斌, Yuanmingyuan 2, 2023
    Yuanmingyuan 2, 2023
  • Gordon Cheung 張逸斌, Yuanmingyuan 3, 2023
    Yuanmingyuan 3, 2023
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