Exhibitions

Past

Arrow to Heaven
Almine Rech, Paris | Matignon 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

Transfer of Power
C-Project, Los Angeles, CA 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

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

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

Gordon Cheung
The Whitaker, Rossendale, UK 3 Jul - 1 Sep 2017 Read more

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

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

Here Be Dragons
Nottingham Castle Museum & Art Gallery, 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

The Abyss Stares Back
Edel Assanti, London, UK 9 Oct - 20 Nov 2015 Read more

Breaking Tulips
Cristea Roberts Gallery, London 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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