Born in London, UK in 1975
Lives and works in London
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
Solo Exhibitions
2024
'Peaceful Retreat', Almine Rech, Shanghai, China
2023
Gordon Cheung, The Atkinson, Southport, UK
2022
'Arrow to Heaven', Almine Rech, Paris, France
2021
'Transfer of Power', Sponsored by ICFAC, co-produced with Coates and Scarry, C Project, Los Angeles, CA, US
2020
'Tears of Paradise', Edel Assanti, London, UK
2019
'Prelude', Edel Assanti, London, UK
2018
'Home', Galerie Huit, Hong Kong
2017
'New Order Vanitas', Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, West Palm Beach, FL, USA
Gordon Cheung, The Whitaker, Rossendale, UK
'Unknown Knowns', Edel Assanti, London, UK
2016
'Lines in the Sand', Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
'Here Be Dragons', Nottingham Castle Museum and Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2015
'The Abyss Stares Back', Edel Assanti, London, UK
'Breaking Tulips', Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
2014
Gordon Cheung, Art14 with Edel Assanti, London, UK
2012
'The Solar Cry, Edel Assanti, London, UK
'Techno Sublime', Touchstones, Rochdale, UK
2011
'The Light that Burns Twice as Bright', Alan Cristea Gallery, London UK
2010
'The Sleeper Awakes', Other Gallery, Shanghai, China
'Altered States', curated by Heather Lineberry and Marilyn Zeitlin, Arizona State University Museum, AZ, US
2009
Gordon Cheung, ROOM Artspace, London, UK
'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse', The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall, UK
'The Promised Land', Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY, US
Volta NY, Solo presentation with Unosunove Gallery and Galerie Adler
2008
'Wilderness of Mirrors', Galerie Adler, Frankfurt, Germany
'Death By a Thousand Cuts', Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK
'The Fall of the Rebel Angels', Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Gordon Cheung, Kirkby Gallery, Liverpool, UK
2007
'God is on Our Side', curated by Raffaella Guidobono, Unosunove Gallery, Rome, Italy
'Paradise Lost', Laing Art Solo Commission, Newcastle - Selected by Susan May, UK
'The 1000 Yard Stare', Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK
'Gordon Cheung – Recent Paintings', Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK
2006
'Heart of Darkness', Thomas Cohn Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil
2003
'Hollow Sunsets', Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK
2002
'Sprawl', DomoBaal Gallery, London, UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
'Of Dreams and Contemplation: I am All but a Story – Selections from the Collection of Richard Koh', The Private Museum, Singapore
ART SG, Richard Koh Fine Art, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
Ceramic Brussels, Almine Rech, Belgium
Cure3 Fifth Edition, Bonhams, London, UK
'All About Eve', Kristin Hjellgjerde Gallery, London, UK
2024
'Say It With Flowers', White Conduit Projects, London, UK
artmonte-carlo, Almine Rech, Principality of Monaco
'Of Dreams and Contemplation: I am All but a Story – Selections from the Collection of Richard Koh', The Private Museum, Singapore
2023
artgenève, Almine Rech, Geneva, Switzerland
ART SG, Almine Rech, Singapore
2022
Art Basel HK, Almine Rech, HK
Maria Arvaniti & Gordon Cheung, postROOM, London, UK
'STILL LIFE/LIFE STILL', OHSH, London, UK
'Tiger Art Trail', WWF, Singapore
'A Gateway to Possible Worlds, Art and Science Fiction', Centre Pompidou Metz, France
2021
Winter Auction, Art on a Postcard (AOAP), London, UK
Wellchild Art Auction 2021, Wellchild, Artsy, London, UK
80th Anniversary Charity Art Auction, Norton Museum of Art and Sotheby’s, Florida, USA
NFTism: No Fear in Trying, Institut Unit London, London, UK
Auction Gala (Donated), Para Site, Hong Kong
REPLICANTS, Epoch Virtual Space, Los Angeles, USA
2020
Summer Exhibition 2020, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Rime of the Ancient Mariner Big Read - Online project curated: Angela Cockayne, Philip Hoare and Sarah Chapman
Real Time, Seventeen Gallery, London - curated: Damien Roach
Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool, UK
IFPDA Print fair, Cristea Roberts Gallery, NY USA
Art Basel HK, Cristea Roberts Gallery, HK
NADA, Edel Assanti, USA
If These Walls Could Talk, Karachi, Pakistan
Para Site Hong Kong Annual Benefit Auction, Soho House Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2019
Cross Pollination, The Atkinson, Southport, UK
2019: Futures Imagined, Artscience Museum, Singapore
The Evolution of Communication, Frank F. Yang Art & Education Foundation, Shenzhen, China - curated: Ying Kwok
At Odds, no gallery, LA, USA
Untitled Art Fair, Edel Assanti, Miami USA
Art Basel HK, Cristea Roberts, HK
EXPO CHICAGO, Edel Assanti, USA
2018
Summer Exhibition 2018, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Transmission, Galerie Huit, Hong Kong
The Sky’s Gone Out, Arthouse1, London, UK
History in the Making, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Cure3, Bonhams, London UK
Untitled Art Fair, Edel Assanti, Miami USA
Art Basel HK, Cristea Roberts, HK
EXPO CHICAGO, Edel Assanti, USA
Art Stage Singapore, Yeo Workshop, Singapore
2017
Karachi Biennale 2017, Karachi, Pakistan
Into the Wild Abyss, RAMM Museum, Exeter, UK
Young Masters Art Prize 2017, Royal Over-Seas League, London, UK; Tour to Royal Opera Arcade Gallery, London, UK
Turkish Tulips, Museum Van Loon, Amsterdam, Netherlands; travelling to the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle,
UK and the Horniman Museum, London, UK
A Decade of Gifts and Acquisitions, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT, USA
I Lost My Heart to a Starship Trooper, Griffin Gallery, London, UK
Summer Exhibition 2017, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Searching For Magic And The Distorted Image Falling From Your iCloud, Dot Project, London, UK
Art Basel HK, Cristea Roberts, HK
Los Angeles Contemporary Fair, LA, USA
2016
Telling Tales, Collyer Bristow, London, UK
30 Years of CFCCA: Gordon Cheung, Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK
Gordon Cheung presents a new triptych entitled Chairman Mao goes to Anyuan Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK
Art Basel HK, Cristea Roberts, HK
2015
Summer Show, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Vita Vitale, Azerbaijan Pavilion, 56th International Art Exhibition (All the World’s Futures),
la Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Clarks: Rebooted, Design Shanghai; Salone del Mobile, Milan; Frieze New York; London Fashion Week; London
Design Festival; Frieze London
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Art Basel HK, Cristea Roberts, HK
2014
Show Me the Money: The Image of Finance, 1700 to the present, Northern Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
Contempo: International Contemporary Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria
How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare, Pristine Gallery, Monterrey, Mexico
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London UK
/Seconds., Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah UAE - Curated Peter Lewis
Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, USA
TIME::CODE, WhiteBox, New York, USA
New Editions and Acquisitions, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Permanent Contemporary Collection, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX, USA
Screen Space, The Pickle Factory, Bethnal Green, UK
Art Basel HK, Cristea Roberts, HK
2013
Wild New Territories, Botanical Gardens and Museum, Berlin Germany
Currents: Recent Art from East Tennessee and Beyond, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN, USA
Wild New Territories, Simon Fraser University Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Now Playing Everywhere: A Survey of Social and Political Works from the St phane Janssen Collection, Mesa
Arts Center, Mesa, AZ, USA
The Big M ‘On The Precipice’ Tour, ISIS Arts, Newcastle, UK
Accumulator III, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland
Accumulator II, Oriel Myrddin Gallery, Carmarthen, Wales
Art Basel HK, Cristea Roberts, HK
Art Basel HK, Lehmann Maupin, HK
2012
Wild New Territories, Camley Park, London UK touring to Vancouver and Berlin
Art HK, Cristea Roberts, HK
Frieze Art Fair, Lehmann Maupin UK
2011
40 ARTISTS - 80 DRAWINGS, The Burton Art Gallery and Museum, Biddeford, Devon UK
Future Can Wait, Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, USA
From Here to Eternity, Larm Galleri, Copenhagen, Denmark
John Martin, Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle – co-curated by Tate and Tyne and Wear Archive and Museums
John Martin – Painting the Apocalypse, Millenium Gallery, Sheffield – co-curated by Tate and Tyne and Wear Archive and Museums
Difference Engine Manifestation III, Clemente Soto V lez Cultural & Educational Center, New York USA
1, Edel Assanti Gallery, London
Art HK, Cristea Roberts, HK
2010
400 Women, Shoreditch Town Hall, London - touring internationally
Recent acquisitions, Knoxville Art Museum, Tennessee, USA
Wasteland, White Box, New York - curated: Raul Zamudio
We the Artists, National Museum and Art Gallery, Trinidad and Tobago - curated: Nicolette Ramirez
Public Enemy Number 1, Exhibit 320, new Delhi India - curated: Shaheen Merali
Saving Africa’s Witch Children, Saatchi Gallery (charity event)
Nouvelles du Jour, Galerie JTM, Paris France
Can you Hear it, Nunnery Gallery, London UK curated by Franko B
Difference Engine: Manifestation II, The Black Mariah/Triskel Eleven, Alan Cristea Gallery, London
Premio Lissone, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lissone, Italy
The Pavilion of Realism, Other Gallery, Shanghai and Beijing, China
Reich Sein, Künstlerverein Walkmühle e.V., Wiesbaden, Germany
Resurrectine, The Feldman Gallery, New York, USA
Difference Engine: Manifestation II, The Black Mariah/Triskel, Ireland
501 UP, Zero Gallery, London UK
Can you Hear it, Nunnery Gallery, London UK curated by Franko B
SURFACE WARP FACTOR, The Aubin Gallery, London UK Curated by Fieldgate Gallery
Beijing Biennale, Beijing Museum, China
Superunknown, Edel Assanti Gallery, London UK
Art HK, Cristea Roberts, HK
2009
The Future Can Wait, Truman Brewery, London – Curated by Ellis Rumley Productions
Gordon Cheung and Jonathan Seliger, Nassau Museum of Art, New York
PS: Parsing Spirituality, Affirmation Arts, New York City, USA Curated by Micaela Giovannotti
Projections, Carr d'Art - Museum of Contemporary Art, Nimes France
Unfold, Nettie Horn Gallery, London
Fault Line - Art in the Age of Anxiety, Nunnery Gallery, curated by Sarah Elson
Drawing Biennale 2009, Drawing Room Gallery, London
Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture, Curated by Jessica Hough and Monica
Ramirez-Montagut, Mills College Art Museum, California USA
