Gordon Cheung 張逸斌 London, b. 1975

Gordon Cheung is a contemporary multi-media artist whose innovative approach to making art seamlessly blends physical and digital media and techniques across painting, collage, sculpture, and moving image. His work explores the intersection of virtual and actual realities, reflecting on how these worlds converge to influence our perceptions. Cheung graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting from the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London in 1998, and completed his Masters of Fine Art in 2001 at the Royal College of Art in London.

Circumnavigating the historical and geographical passage from the Dutch Golden Age to the rise of China as a 21st Century superpower, Cheung’s practice critiques the underlying mechanisms of global capitalism, and its impact 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 the artist’s ‘in-between’ diasporic identity. His works engage with the existential question of what it means to be human in civilizations with histories written by victors.

Selected exhibitions include: Stay Connected: Supplying the Globe at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong (2026); New Territories at gdm, Hong Kong (2025); The Garden Of Perfect Brightness at The Atkinson in Southport, UK (2023); Here Be Dragons at Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery in Nottingham, UK (2016), and The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse at The New Art Gallery Walsall in Walsall, UK (2009). 

Cheung’s works can be found in key collections and museums, including at the British Museum, London, UK; the Whitworth Art Museum in Manchester, UK; the Royal College of Art in London, UK; the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, USA; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, and M+ Museum, Hong Kong, amongst others. Cheung is the recipient of the 2008 Jerwood Contemporary Painters Prize, and was the Knoxville Museum of Art’s featured artist in 2022.