1999 Emily Cheng "Faces" Vintage Color Photograph Digital Photo Collage Print

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This was from Muse X publishers. It came in a plastic bag signed Emily Cheng. (the plastic bag is not … Read more This was from Muse X publishers. It came in a plastic bag signed Emily Cheng. (the plastic bag is not included) It is on Fuji crystal photo paper. It depicts two Asian faces in a cubist, fractured way, with a woman (or man) holding a photograph over his/her face. It is a proof print and is not signed or numbered.

Emily Cheng (born in New York City, in 1953) is an American artist of Chinese ancestry. She is best known for large scale painting with a center focus often employing expansive circular images radiantly colored, radially composed.

Cheng received her BFA in 1975 from the Rhode Island School of Design and attended the New York Studio School. Cheng has exhibited widely in the US and in Asia. 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),
Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, (2015) and in Europe at the Palais Liechtenstein Feldkirch, Austria (2019).

Cheng has had numerous solo shows in the US and in Asia and is represented by Hanart TZ Gallery in Hong Kong. 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. Emily Cheng has lived and worked in New York City since 1977 and teaches Asian Art History at the School of Visual Arts. 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. Nicolas Carone and Leland Bell were both among her teachers as well as Elaine de Kooning.

Selected solo exhibitions
Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York,
Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, (2015)
Hanart T.Z. Gallery, Hong Kong,
Zane Bennett Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, (2013)
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) Taipei , Taiwan (2011)
Louis Vuitton Maison, Kowloon, Hong Kong, (2010)
Ayala Museum Makati, Philippines, (2006)
Plum Blossom Gallery, New York, NY, (2004)
Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO (2001)
Metropolitan Museum of Manila , Philippines (1997)
John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY, Projects Room (1997)
Contemporary Arts Center , Cincinnati, Ohio, 1994
David Beitzel Gallery, New York, NY, (1992)
Lang & O'Hara Gallery, New York, NY,
The Bronx Museum of the Arts , Bronx, NY, (1989)
White Columns , New York, NY, (1985)

Selected group exhibitions
Art Basel Hong Kong , (Hanart Gallery) , Hong Kong, 2017
China Institute, New York, NY, 2014
Beijing Art Fair, Beijing, China, 2013
Museum of Chinese in America New York, NY, 2010
Kidspace, MASS MoCA , Williamstown, MA, 2010, 2005
Museum of Contemporary Art , Shanghai, China, 2009
Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong, China, 2009
Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China, 2008
Contrast Gallery, Shanghai and Beijing, China, 2008
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum , Tampa, Florida, 2006
Hong Kong Arts Centre , Hong Kong, 2004
American Academy of Art , New York, New York, 2004
Longmarch Project, Beijing, China, 2002
Sotheby’s , New York, NY, 2001
Newhouse Center, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, 2000
Katonah Museum of Art , Katonah, NY, 2000
National Academy and Museum, NY, 2000
Municipal Museum of Gyor, Hungary, 1999
New Museum of Contemporary Art , New York, NY, 1998
De Cordova Museum and the Computer Museum , Boston, MA, 1994
International Graphic Biennial, Muveszeti Museum, Hungary, 1995
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts , San Francisco, CA, 1994
Drawing Center, NY; traveled to Corcoran, Washington D.C., Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica CA; The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis MO; American Center, Paris, France,
Cone Editions Gallery, New York 1990
Anina Nosei Gallery, New York, 1988
Greenville County Museum of Art , South Carolina, 1988
North Carolina Museum of Art ,
Hallwalls , Buffalo, NY, 1988
Grace Borgenicht Gallery , New York, 1986
Tibor de Nagy, New York, 1985
Asian American Arts Centre , New York, 1985

Awards
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, 2010
New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
Yaddo Residency, 1995
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

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