Explore: Gordon Cheung

(1975 - )

Having grown up in both Hong Kong and England, Gordon Cheung studied painting at Central St Martins College and the Royal College of Art. He has exhibited extensively and in 2005 was part of British Art Show 6 at the Baltic, Gateshead and the John Moores Painting Prize in 2006. He was awarded the Arts Council of England Individual Arts Award in 2005 and won the Jerwood Contemporary Painters Prize in 2008. Recent solo exhibitions include 'New Order Vanitas', Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens, West Palm Beach, Florida (2017); 'Unknown Knowns', Edel Assanti, London, (2017); 'Here Be Dragons', Nottingham Castle Museum, Nottingham (2016); and 'Lines in the Sand', Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai (2016). Cheung’s work is held in many private and public collections including the Yale Center for British Art, Connecticut; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.; Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester; and the British Museum, London. He lives and works in London.