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Gordon Cheung

Place of birth Lambeth, London
Country of residence United Kingdom

'Essentially my paintings reflect the techno sublime, where information overwhelms the individual, causing a flickering perception of realities.' (Gordon Cheung, 2004). Cheung is interested in the notion of an artificial reality, in the way that the modern world of cyberspace and new technologies has increasingly demanded that we become hard wired, altering our conception of distance, time and space. Imagery from graphics in posters and flyers, accelerated travel and billboards are all part of an intricate web of artificiality that alters our sense of reality, to form a new landscape.

To explore these ideas, Cheung makes paintings using a complex mix of acrylic gel, spray paint, stocks and shares listings from the Financial Times, computer-manipulated imagery and Chinese ink drawing. Punky images and meticulous collage make up schizophrenic landscapes of colliding dream-worlds that oscillate between the utopic and dystopic.

Education:
1999-2001 Royal College of Art - MA Fine Art Painting
1995-1998 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design -
BA(Hons) Fine Art in Painting
1994-1995 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design - Art and Design Foundation Studies

Solo exibitions:
2008 Death by a Thousand Cuts, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester*
2007 God is on Our Side, Unosunove Gallery, Rome Italy*
Laing Art Solo Award and Commission: Gordon Cheung - Paradise Lost, Laing Art Gallery, UK (Selected by Susan May)
The 1000 Yard Stare (Solo show), Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth UK*
Gordon Cheung - Recent Paintings, Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham UK (Curated by Neil Walker)
2006 Heart of Darkness, Thomas Cohn Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2004 Hollow Sunsets, Houldsworth Gallery, London
2002 Sprawl, DomoBaal Gallery, London

Exhibitions Jerwood Contemporary Painters, 09.Apr - 18.May.08, Jerwood Space, The Future Can Wait, 10.Oct - 14.Oct.07, CHARLIE SMITH london, Happy Days, 08.Oct - 30.Nov.07, Dorian Gray Projects, New Life and the Dream Garden, 13.Apr - 06.May.07, Fieldgate Gallery, I'll Be Your Mirror, 18.Jan - 11.Mar.07, Gallery Primo Alonso, Salon Connexions, 06.Dec - 22.Dec.06, Contemporary Art Projects, Winter Exhibition 2006, 26.Jan - 26.Feb.06, Contemporary Art Projects

Events New Life and the Dream Garden, 12.Apr.07, 6-9pm


www.gordoncheung.com

 

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