Gordon Cheung

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Born: 1975
Lives: London

Education
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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
1994-1995 Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design - Foundation Studies
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Solo Exhibitions
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2008 Gordon Cheung, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
2007 Gordon Cheung, Laing Art Solo, Newcastle
2004 �Gordon Cheung - Hollow Sunsets�, Houldsworth Gallery, London
2002 �Gordon Cheung � Sprawl�, DomoBaal Gallery, London
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Group Exhibitions
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2007
�Arrivals/Departures�, URBIS Museum, Manchester

2006
John Moores 24 Painting Prize, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool - Selected by Tracey Emin, Sir Peter Blake, Jason Brookes, Ann Bukantas and Andrea Rose
10th Planet, A04 Business Complex, London (Curated by Julian Hughes Watts)
Fresh! Contemporary Takes on Nature and Allegory, Museum of Glass - International Center for Contemporary Art, Washington USA (Curated by Juli Cho Bailer)
St�phane Janssen: The Collector, Amarillo Museum of Art, Texas, USA
Permanent and Loan Collection, Arizona State Universitity Art Museum, Arizona, USA
Continental Breakfast, Umetnostna Galerija Maribor Museum, Slovenia
Jerusalem, Dean Clough Galleries, Halifax (Curated by David Hancock)
Broken Romanticism, Standpoint Gallery (Curated by Steve Walter)
BRITISH ART SHOW 6, various UK venues across Manchester, Nottingham and Bristol

2005
BRITISH ART SHOW 6, BALTIC, Gateshead (Touring UK) - Curated by Alex Farquharson and Andrea Schlieker, Organised by the Hayward Gallery
�NLK� (in association with Armoury Fair), Soho House, New York
New London Kicks, Wooster Projects, New York
�ARCO Art Fair - Independents�, Houldsworth Gallery, Madrid
�Faux Realism�, Royal Academy Pumphouse Gallery, London
Capacity Building, Storey Gallery, Lancashire UK - (with Hiraki Sawa, Lucy Gunning and others)

2004
�Caution: Uneven Surfaces�, Temporary Contemporary, London
�Art News�, Three Colts Gallery, London (with Martin Creed, Gillian Wearing and Amikan Toren and others)
�Zoo Art Fair�, London (with Flaca Gallery)
�Grey Goo�, Flaca Gallery, London
�Horizon of Expectations�, The Empire, London
�Halbes Haus�, Three Colts Gallery, London
�Thermo 04�. Lowry Museum, Salford
�Le Petit Paysage�, Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool (Touring UK nationally)
�Perspectives�, Galerie Koch, Germany
�Stray Show�, Chicago, USA
�Apopalyptical�, Houldsworth Gallery, London
�Collage�, Bloomberg Space, London (with Chris Ofili, Frank Stella, Richard Prince, Robert Rauchenberg and others)
�HALF LIGHT�, Rockwell, London
�One Day�, Gallery Coridoor, Iceland

2003
�Yes, I am a Long Way from Home�, Nunnery, London (inc catalogue) -
Toured: Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Herbert Read Gallery, Canterbury and Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland (with Peter Doig, Paul Morrison, George Shaw, and others)
�Vasl�, VM Gallery, Karachi, Pakistan
�Intervention�, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (with Ron Arad, Foreign Investment, Runa Islam and others)
�Sense and Nonsense�, Danielle Arnaud Gallery, London (with Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars and others)
�Drawing 100�, Drawingroom Project, Tannery, London (with Julian Opie, Paul Noble, Langlands and Bell, Rachel Whiteread and others)
�Trans-�, Kyoto Art Centre, Japan (Curated by Kohei Nawa)
�ArtFutures�, Contemporary Art Society, London
�Portal-�, Studio J, Osaka, Japan

2002
�Unscene�, Gasworks, London (inc catalogue)
�Wellworth�, Keith Talent Gallery, London

2001
�CD1�, Marlborough Fine Arts, London (inc catalogue)
�The Show�, Royal College of Art, London (inc catalogue)

2000
�Assembly�, Stepney City, London � Curator and organiser (inc catalogue)
�Painting 2000�, Royal College of Art, London (inc catalogue)
�Fakescape�, Mellow Birds, Underwood Street, London
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Bibliography
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11.05 'Gordon Cheung', Dazed and Confused, vol.2 issue 32, p.34, Iphgenia Baal (image featured)
11.10.05 �British Art Show 6�, Channel 5 presented by Tim Marlow
7.10.05 �British Art Show 6�, Newsnight Review
9.2005 'Gordon Cheung', 25th Birthday Issue - i-D magazine, p.98, Charlie Danby
6.6.2005 'As Hirst Hits 40, Meet the New Faces of UK Art Scene', The Independent, p.3, Arifa Akbar (image featured)
1.2005 �Gordon Cheung�, Flash Art no.240 p.72, Roy Exley (image featured)
10.2004 �Gordon Cheung�, Financial Times Weekend magazine, Jackie Wullschlager (image featured)
5.2004 �Breathing Space�, City life, Tim Birch (image featured)
5.2004 �Gordon Cheung�, Metro (Manchester), (image featured)
5.2004 �Pizza Express Prospects Prize�, Metro (London), Fisun Guner (image featured)
5.2004 �Collage�, Contemporary
5.2004 �Apopolyptical�, Art Monthly, David Barrett (image featured)
5.2004 �Collage� Art Monthly, Eliza Williams
5.2004 �Collage�, Kultureflash
10.2003 �Intervention�, Sleazenation
10.2003 �Intervention�, Gaurdian The Guide (image featured)
4.2003 �Yes I am a Long Way from Home�, Contemporary
4.2003 �Yes I am a Long Way from Home�, Art Monthly, Sara Harrison (image featured)
4.2003 �Yes I am a Long Way from Home� Time Out, Sarah Kent
4.2003 �Yes I am a Long Way from Home� Art Review
7.2002 �Gordon Cheung�, Radio interview, The Glass Shrimp, Resonace FM
7.2002 �Gordon Cheung�, What�s On
7.2002 �Gordon Cheung�, Time Out Website, Arts
5.6.2002 �Unscene�, Gasworks Gallery, Modern Painters
30.4.2002 �Unscene�, Gasworks Gallery, The Gaurdian - The Guide, Jessica Lack
24.4.2002 �Unscene�, Gasworks Gallery, Time Out, no.1653, Jane Tynan
13.3.2002 �Wellworth�, Keith Talent Gallery, Time Out, no.1647, Martin Herbert
2001 �Class of 2001 -Top 20 MA Graduates�, Art Review supplement
6.2001 Surviving in the Arts, BBC Radio, London
4.6.2001 �Lessons in the art of survival�, The Daily Telegraph, Will Bennett
2.3.2001 �Digitale Landschaften und neue Mythologien�, Germany, Essen
27.12.2000 Assembly - The Best Art Shows of 2000, The Big Issue, no.418, Helen Sumpter
11.2000 �Fakescape�, Frieze, no.55, Neal Brown (see also www.frieze.com)
11.2000 �Fakescape�, Flash Art
18.10.2000 �Assembly�, Time Out, no.1574
1.10.2000 �Go See..Assembly�, The Observer Magazine
4.8.2000 �Fakescape�, The Guardian, London, Jonathon Jones
23.8.2000 �Fakescape�, Time Out, London, Izi Glover
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Grants/Awards
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2006
John Moores 24 Painting Prize Finalist, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool - Selected by Tracey Emin, Sir Peter Blake, Jason Brookes, Ann Bukantas and Andrea Rose
Laing Art Solo Award, Newcastle, UK
Braziers International Artists Workshop, Oxfordshire UK

2005
Hong Kong and China Research Trip - Funded by ACE and A-n
Arts Council of England Individual Arts Award

2004
�BOC Emerging Artist Award Finalist� - (Selected by Sarah kent, Karen Wright, Marcus Harvey, Roy Exley)
�Pizza Express Prospects Prize Finalist�, Tea Building, London - (Selected by Tim Marlow, Fiona Bradley, Simon Groom, Graham Gussin, Rachel Lowe)
�Jerwood Drawing Prize Finalist� � (Touring UK nationally)
�Breathe� Residency, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester

2003
�Triangle Arts Trust International Artist Fellowship� - Nominated by Gasworks Gallery
Jerwood Solo Platform Nominee
VASL Residency, Pakistan - Nominated by Gasworks Gallery
Arts Council England International Art Award
British Council International Arts Award
�Diffuse Asia�, Kyoto Art Centre Residency, Japan
Lexmark European Painting Prize Finalist, London

2000
Socrates Travel Award for Berlin
John Minton Travel Award for Paris
TI Travel Award for Budapest
Paris Studio Residency, Cit� Internationale des Arts, Paris
�The Gilchrist-Fisher Award Finalist�, Rhg, London (inc catalogue)

1999
Space Studio Residency 98/99, Space Studios, Old Street, London

1998
�Arte Viva� Residency and competition - Painting First PrizeWinner, Italy
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Projects
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