Ian Cheng
Born 1984 in Los Angeles, US
Lives and works in New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Thousand Lives, Matadero Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Thousand Lives, Gladstone Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2023
Thousand Lives, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2022
Life After BOB, Light Art Space, Berlin, Germany
Worlding, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
2021
Life After BOB, The Shed, New York, US
Life After BOB: The Chalice Study, Luma Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
Life After BOB: The Chalice Study, Luma Arles, Arles, France
2020
Emissary Trilogy, Fundación Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Madrid, Spain
2019
BOB, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
2018
Emissary Forks at Perfection, Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia, Venice, Italy
Ian Cheng: Emissaries, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, Germany
Ian Cheng, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
2017
Ian Cheng, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, US
EMISSARIES, MoMA PS1, New York, US
EMISSARY FORKS featuring THOUSAND ISLANDS, Espace Louis Vuitton
München (in association with KINO DER KUNST Festival), Munich, Germany
2016
Forking at Perfection, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
2015
Emissary Forks At Perfection, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
Something Thinking Of You: Live 1 - 31 August, vdrome.org
Emissary in the Squat of Gods, Standard (Oslo), Frieze New York, US
Emissary in the Squat of Gods, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Real Humans, with Wu Tsang, Jordan Wolfson, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
2014
Ian Cheng, Triennale Di Milano, Milan, Italy
2013
Baby Feat. Bali, Standard Oslo, Oslo, Norway
Frieze Frame, Formalise Sidewalk Poetry Club, London, UK
Entropy Wrangler, Off Vendome, Düsseldorf, Germany
Too Humans All Too Humans, Vanity, Los Angeles, US
2011
This Papaya Tastes Perfect, Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club, Miami, US
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024
Dance With Daemons, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Germany
What An Artificial World, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
2023
Reaching for the Stars. Works from the Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Collection, Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
2022
Julia Stoschek Collection's 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
Old and New Dreams: Recent Acquisitions in a Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
Among the Machines, Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
2021
Time is money?, Kadist x G Museum, Nanjing, China
Things, Spaces, Interactions, M+, Hong Kong
2020
Uncanny Valley, De Young, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, US
On the Threshold, Luma, Arles, France
Worlding Worlds, MU Hybrid Art House, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2019
Mud Muses, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
If The Snake, Okayama Art Summit, Okayama, Japan
The Sound of Silences Imploding, The Biennale of Moving Images, Officine Grandi Riparazioni, Turin, Italy
May You Live in Interesting Times, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
New Order: Art and Technology in the Twenty-First Century, MoMA, New York, US
Leaving The Echo Chamber, Sharjah Biennial 2019, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Trouble in Paradise: Collection Rattan Chadha, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Life to come, Metro Pictures, New York, US
2018
WILDERNESS, Schirn, Frankfurt, Germany
Low Form. Imaginaries and Visions in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, MAXXI, Rome, Italy
Ghost: 2561, Bangkok City City Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
In Tune with the World, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Take me (I'm Yours), Villa Medici-French Academy, Rome, Italy
I Was Raised on the Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
2017
Take Me (I'm Yours), Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy
Being Modern: MoMA in Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Take me (I'm Yours), Bienalsur, Buenos Aires, Argentina
The Garden, K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai, China
Yokohama Triennale 2017 'Islands, Constellations and Galapagos', Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan
Being There, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
in relation to a Spectator, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Suspended Animation: Headlong into digital space, Les Abattoirs, Musée FRAC Occitanie, Toulouse, France
Generation Loss: 10 Years, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
Shanghai Project Chapter 2 Exhibition: Seeds of Time, Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, China
Envision Pavilion, Zendai Zhujiajiao Art Museum, Shanghai, China
BMW Tate Live Exhibition: Ten Days Six Nights, Tate Modern, London, UK
After us, K11 Art Foundation, in partnership with the New Museum, New York, Shanghai, China
2016
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, Whitney Museum, New York, US
Take Me (I'm Yours), Jewish Museum, New York, US
Overpop, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
Liverpool Biennial 2016, Liverpool, UK
WELT AM DRAHT, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, Germany
Suspended Animation, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., US
Stranger, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, US
2015
Co-Workers - Networks as Artist, Musée d'Art Moderne Paris, France
Co-Workers: Beyond Disaster, Bétonsalon, Paris, France
Screen Play: Life in an Animated World, Albright-Knox, Buffalo, US
Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York, US
Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
2014
Taipei Biennial - The Great Acceleration, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Technokinesis, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, New York, US
Phantom Limbs, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
Dreams that money can't buy, MAXXI Museo delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Rome, Italy
chatbots, tongues, denial, and various other abstractions, Bortolami Gallery, New York, US
Season Eight: Pierre Huyghe, The Artist's Institute, New York, US
International Women's Day, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2013
The Time Machine (The Survivors), Cura Basement, Rome, Italy
Love of Technology, Museum of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, US
12th Lyon Biennial - meanwhile, suddenly, and then, Le Sucriere, Lyon, France
Freak Out, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, US
ProBio, Expo1, MoMA PS1, New York, US
HMV, Foxy Production, New York, US
EIN HAMMER AUF DEN KOPF KANN DIE SEELE VERLETZEN, Volker Bradtke, Düsseldorf, Germany
3D MODELS, DisImages.com
2012
A programming language, Primary Work Surface, London, UK
A Disagreeable Object, Katrib, Sculpture Center, New York, US
You told me the other night, West Street Gallery, New York, US
how to download a boyfriend, iTunes Store
December, Mitchell-Innes and Nash, New York, US
2009
Columbia University MFA Thesis Show, Fisher Landau Center for Arts, New York, US
EDUCATION
2009
MFA Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York
2006
BA Cognitive Science, BA Art Practice, UC Berkeley, Berkeley
AWARDS, GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2017
The Award for Filmic Oeuvre, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
2013
New Director's Showcase, Cannes Lion
2012
Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Visual Arts Grantee
2008
Ninah and Michael Lynne Fellowship
2006
Eisner Award for Film and Video, Berkeley Pacific Film Archive