Gordon Cheung UK, b. 1975

Gordon Cheung’s practice interrogates the visual and ideological systems that shape global capitalism, power, and identity. Working primarily in sculpture, painting, and digital media; Cheung incorporates financial newspapers, maps, and digital iconography into densely layered compositions that collapse distinctions between abstraction and representation, materiality and image. His works often feature fractured landscapes, unstable architectures, and glitch-like disruptions that evoke both economic volatility and cultural dislocation.

Born in London to Chinese parents, Cheung draws on personal and geopolitical histories to examine how migration, finance, and technology intersect in the contemporary moment. By embedding source materials associated with commerce and information flow directly into the surface of the work, he exposes the infrastructures—both visible and invisible—that govern everyday life, and reflects on the existential questions of what it means to be human in civilisations with histories written by victors. The resulting paintings operate as speculative sites, where past and future, collapse and regeneration, coexist.

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 Gordon Cheung, Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong (2025); Peaceful Retreat, Almine Rech, Shanghai, China (2024); Rise and Fall, HOFA Gallery, Mykonos, Greece (2024); Paradise Found Paradox, Richard Koh FineArt, Singapore (2023); Arrow to Heaven, Almine Rech, Paris, France (2022); Transfer of Power, Sponsored by ICFAC, Co- produced with Coates and Scarry, C Project, Los Angeles, USA (2021); Tears of Paradise, Edel Assanti, London (2020); Prelude, Edel Assanti, London, UK (2019); Home, Galerie Huit, Hong Kong (2018); New Order  Vanitas, Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, West Palm Beach, FL,USA (2017); Gordon Cheung, The Whitaker, Rossendale, UK (2017); Lines in the Sand, Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, UAE (2016); Breaking Tulips, Alan Cristea Gallery, London (2015); Techno Sublime, Touchstones, Rochdale, UK (2014).

Cheung’s work is held in major public collections, including the Whitworth, Manchester; British Museum, London; Royal College of Art, London; Government Art Collection, London; Museum of Contemporary Art, Kraków; Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; and Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota.