Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China, 2009 Kidspace, MASS MoCA, Williamstown, MA, 2010, 2005 Museum of Chinese in America New York, NY, 2010 The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY, (1989)Īrt Basel Hong Kong, (Hanart Gallery), Hong Kong, 2017 John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY, Projects Room (1997)Ĭontemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994ĭavid Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, (1992) Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines (1997) Plum Blossom Gallery, New York, NY, (2004)īyron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO (2001) Louis Vuitton Maison, Kowloon, Hong Kong, (2010) Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Taipei, Taiwan (2011) Zane Bennett Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, (2013) Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, (2015) Nicolas Carone and Leland Bell were both among her teachers as well as Elaine de Kooning. Influenced by a wide array of eastern and western artists including Van Gogh, Gauguin, Manet and Giacometti as well as de Kooning, early Philip Guston and Jackson Pollock. Emily Cheng has lived and worked in New York City since 1977 and teaches Asian Art History at the School of Visual Arts. In 2007, Timezone 8 published a monograph of Emily Cheng titled, Chasing Clouds, a decade of studies, with essays by Kevin Powers and Johnson Chang. Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, (2015) and in Europe at the Palais Liechtenstein Feldkirch, Austria (2019).Ĭheng has had numerous solo shows in the US and in Asia and is represented by Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong. In 2011, Cheng created Charting Sacred Territories, an exhibition exploring world religions which opened in the Museum of Contemporary Art Taipei (MOCA), Taiwan (2011) and traveled to Hanart TZ Gallery in (2015), Cheng has exhibited widely in the US and in Asia. She is best known for large scale painting with a center focus often employing expansive circular images radiantly colored, radially composed.Ĭheng received her BFA in 1975 from the Rhode Island School of Design and attended the New York Studio School. It is a proof print and is not signed or numbered.Įmily Cheng (born in New York City, in 1953) is an American artist of Chinese ancestry.

It depicts two Asian faces in a cubist, fractured way, with a woman (or man) holding a photograph over his/her face. (the plastic bag is not included) It is on Fuji crystal photo paper. It came in a plastic bag signed Emily Cheng.

Asian selfie collage