Gordon Cheung UK, b. 1975

Gordon Cheung has developed a multidisciplinary practice working across virtual and actual realities, to reflect on the existential questions of what it means to be human in civilisations with histories written by victors. Utilizing sculpture, painting, and digital media; Cheung merges virtual and physical realities through his works, constructing atmospheric worlds that confront the existential conditions of contemporary life. Cheung's practice interrogates a culture shaped by accelerated capitalism, algorithmic governance, and histories authored by dominant powers. His hybrid visual language draws from cultural mythology, religious symbolism, geopolitical spectacle, and the poetics of diaspora, forming hallucinatory, urban-surreal terrains that echo his own in-between identity and the psychological space of global precarity.

Cheung earned his BFA in Painting from Central Saint Martins, London, in 1998, followed by an MFA from the Royal College of Art in 2001. His work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including presentations at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York; The New Art Gallery Walsall, UK (The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse); Cristea Gallery, London (The Light that Burns Twice as Bright); Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, UK (Here Be Dragons); and Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, West Palm Beach, FL (New Order Vanitas).

Cheung’s work is held in major public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; The Whitworth, Manchester; the Royal College of Art, London; and the British Museum, among others.