Exhibitions

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  Paradise Found Paradox

  Richard Koh Fine Art, Singapore 7 - 28 Oct 2023 My first solo exhibition in Singapore is a collection of a serene mix-media landscape painting, still life painting, sculpture of a scholar’s rocks made with financial newspaper on 3d printed clouds and windows built with bamboo and newspaper. Together they refer to a Chinese scholar’s garden as a metaphor of... Read more

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  The Garden of Perfect Brightness

  The Atkinson, Southport, UK 3 Jun - 9 Sep 2023 Named after the Yuanming Gardens in Beijing’s Summer Palace, 'The Garden of Perfect Brightness' is an exhibition of new work and the culmination of research into geopolitical and historical events including the Opium Wars, the rise and fall of civilisations and the digital age. Through a series of paintings and... Read more

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  Arrow to Heaven

  Almine Rech, Paris Matignon, France 28 Jun - 30 Jul 2022 Arrow to Heaven is my first solo show in Paris at Almine Rech Gallery. It is an exploration of lesser known histories of the Opium Wars that Britain and France joined forces to wage war to force the Qing Empire of China to open up trade via what is known... Read more

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  Transfer of Power

  C-Project, Los Angeles, USA 23 Jul - 14 Aug 2021 'Transfer of Power' is Cheung's debut exhibition in LA and includes work from the past 10 years. The exhibition features elaborate combinations of painted lion dancers, bull riders, AR showers of Bitcoin, digitally distorted landscapes, megacities composed of sand and spray paint, and ornate traditional Chinese window frames built from... Read more

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  Tears of Paradise

  Edel Assanti, London, UK 17 Jan - 7 Mar 2020 To achieve a great leap, an entire generation must be sacrificed. Liu Zhijun, Minister of Railways 2003-2011, People’s Republic of China Edel Assanti is pleased to present Gordon Cheung’s fourth solo show with the gallery, Tears of Paradise. This exhibition is the latest in a series in which Cheung witnesses... Read more

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  Home

  Galerie Huit, HK 16 Nov 2018 - 11 Jan 2019 Galerie Huit is pleased to present ‘Home’, Gordon Cheung’s first solo exhibition in Hong Kong, from where his parents emigrated, to London where he was born and raised. The exhibition features a new body of mixed media paintings and Chinese windows, continuing the artist’s question and critique on the effects... Read more

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  Gordon Cheung

  The Whitaker, Rossendale, UK 3 Jul - 1 Sep 2017 Gordon Cheung The Whitaker, Rossendale, UK Monday, 3 July 2017 - Friday, 1 September 2017 Gordon is of Hong Kong origin and was born in London in 1975 where he still lives and works. A contemporary artist whose work captures the virtual and actual realities of a global world and... Read more

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  Unknown Knowns

  Edel Assanti, London, UK 10 Mar - 16 Apr 2017 Read more

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  Lines in the Sand

  Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, UAE 18 Sep - 7 Nov 2016 Leila Heller Gallery Dubai presents a selection of large scale paintings by Gordon Cheung in his first solo exhibition in Dubai entitled “Lines in the Sand”. Cheung maps the geopolitical landscape within the context of a broader human story invoking a causal chain that dates back to the dawn of... Read more

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  Here Be Dragons

  Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, Nottingham, UK 30 Apr - 17 Jul 2016 Gordon Cheung is a contemporary artist whose work captures the mood of the global collapse of civilization – or a dystopian, prophetic vision of it – where moral, economic and environmental crises have spun out of control. Spiritual undertones are balanced alongside familiar contemporary images including sources from popular media,... Read more

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  The Abyss Stares Back

  Edel Assanti, London, UK 9 Oct - 20 Nov 2015 Read more

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  Breaking Tulips

  Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK 11 Sep - 6 Oct 2015 Breaking Tulips, an exhibition of new work by Gordon Cheung, provides an historical reflection of contemporary culture through the exploration of the Dutch Golden Age, a period of extraordinary wealth and power in 16th- and 17th- century Holland. 'Tulipmania' was the world's first recorded major financial crash, and is also... Read more

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  The Solar Cry

  Edel Assanti, London, UK 25 Oct 2012 - 5 Jan 2013 Of course the bull itself is also an image of the sun, but only when its throat is slit... the sun has also been mythologically expressed by man slashing his own throat, as well as by an anthropomorphic being deprived of a head. Georges Bataille Edel Assanti is pleased to... Read more

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  Techno Sublime

  Touchstones Rochdale, Rochdale, UK 31 Mar - 16 Jun 2012 Gordon Cheung's mixed-media paintings depict epic, dream-like landscapes where the natural world collides with the structures of globalisation. Through his use of collaged Financial Times stock listings as the base for each painting, Cheung's work raises questions about contemporary society, such as the impact of technology and whether a utopian... Read more

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  The Light That Burns Twice as Bright

  Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK 14 Sep - 5 Oct 2011 The Alan Cristea Gallery will stage an exhibition of new works, Gordon Cheung: The Light that Burns Twice as Bright, from 14 September to 5 October 2011. Cheung's multi-media artistic vision is fuelled by an anxious reflection on the current state of affairs in capitalist societies. He invokes prophetic visions... Read more

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  The Sleeper Awakes

  The Other Gallery, Shanghai, China 10 Sep - 10 Oct 2010 How could one be in this world without feeling dismayed by it? Even if one paints flowers and gingerbread. —Gerhard Richter One of the most overlooked literary works in science fiction is H.G. Wells The Sleeper Awakes (1910). A reason for this oversight may have to do with it being... Read more

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  Altered States: Paintings by Gordon Cheung from the Stéphane Janssen Collection

  Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA 9 Jan - 10 Apr 2010 Arizona State University Art Museum will present the first solo exhibition by British artist Gordon Cheung in a U.S. museum. The ASU Art Museum is recognized for presenting groundbreaking contemporary artists and art forms, often in their first museum exhibition. Cheung’s paintings explore our world in fantastic landscapes. He combines... Read more

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  The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

  The New Art Gallery Walsall, Walsall UK 7 Aug - 1 Nov 2009 Gordon Cheung creates hallucinogenic visions inspired by a wide range of sources including science fiction, 18th century romantic painting, cartoons and current affairs. His works reflect on such contemporary issues as the war on terror, religion, economics, globalisation, the digital age and technology. For this exhibition, the artist will create... Read more

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  Gordon Cheung

  ROOM ArtSpace, London, UK 1 Jun - 1 Jul 2009 Read more

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  The Promised Land

  Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, USA 19 Mar - 18 Apr 2009 Jack Shainman Gallery is pleased to present British Born Chinese artist Gordon Cheung’s first solo gallery show in the USA. His dual background has fuelled his interest in paradoxically belonging and not to both cultures, a condition that led him to focus his work on existence in the artificial landscape... Read more

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  Wilderness of Mirrors

  Galerie Adler, Frankfurt, Germany 6 Sep - 18 Oct 2008 Gordon Cheung’s first solo show in Germany takes place from September 5th to October 18th, 2008 at Galerie ADLER in Frankfurt am Main. The show‘s title takes it’s name from James Jesus Angleton‘s phrase ‘Wilderness of Mirrors’ with which he used to describe the double-agent confusion and strange loops of... Read more

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  The Fall of the Rebel Angels

  Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, UK 30 Jan - 23 Feb 2008 London-based artist, Gordon Cheung takes inspiration from John Martin's famous 19th-century illustrations for Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost in an exhibition at Alan Cristea Gallery throughout February 2008. This biblical story covers the fall of the rebel angels into Hell, the temptation of Adam and Eve and their subsequent expulsion... Read more

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  Death by a Thousand Cuts

  Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK 18 Jan - 23 Mar 2008 Gordon Cheung’s first solo exhibition at Chinese Arts Centre, Death by a Thousand Cuts, sees the artist continuing his interrogation of power structures and belief systems, and our obedience to them. Cheung’s paintings capture the hallucinations between the virtual and actual realities of a globalised world oscillating between Utopia and... Read more

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  God is On Our Side

  Unosunove Gallery, Rome, Italy 26 Sep - 10 Nov 2007 Gordon Cheung mixes decadence of apparel with a special taste of paradise. The artist plants allegories and leaves others to gather them. Using a mix of techniques he retranslates the prints of John Martin, created for the original edition of John Milton’s Paradise Lost, the departure point of this exhibition.... Read more

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  1000 Yard Stare

  Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK 22 Sep - 18 Nov 2007 In The 1000 Yard Stare Gordon Cheung shows a series of works, made between 2004-7, which offer a poetic and disturbing reflection of the drama and trauma of contemporary life. Cheung's super-real paintings capture hallucinations between the virtual and actual realities of our globalised world reflecting how we entered the... Read more

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  Paradise Lost

  Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, UK 28 Jul - 4 Oct 2007 Laing Solo is a series of exhibitions profiling the work of individual emerging artists. This exhibition was selected through an annual, national competition, open to artists in the early stages of their careers. Work was selected by representatives from the Laing Art Gallery and Susan May, former head of the... Read more

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  Gordon Cheung – Recent Paintings

  Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham, UK 12 Jan - 25 Feb 2007 Read more

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  Heart of Darkness

  Thomas Cohn Gallery, Sao Paolo, Brazil 29 Nov - 15 Dec 2006 The title refers to the book by Joseph Conrad in which the motif of darkness recurs throughout the novel to reflect the 'primal darkness' against the light of civilization and the ambiguity of both; the dark motives of civilisation, the freedom of the primal, as well as spiritual darkness. Francis... Read more

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  Hollow Sunsets

  Houldsworth Gallery, London, UK 11 Oct - 13 Nov 2004 “Essentially my paintings reflect the techno sublime, where information overwhelms the individual, causing a flickering perception of realities”, says Cheung, whose dazzling new paintings have mesmerised the judges at this year’s Jerwood Drawing Prize, Prospect Drawing prize and the BOC emerging artists award. ‘Hollow Sunsets’ are a way of seeing... Read more

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  Sprawl

  DomoBaal Gallery, London, UK 21 Jun - 27 Jul 2002 Canyons, chasms, cliffs and crags all feature, like textbook examples of erosional landforms, in the recent works of Gordon Cheung. As if reflecting the dizzying ascents and precipitous falls of stock market trends, Cheung meticulously applies thousands of shredded strips of the Financial Times onto boards, to create images which... Read more