ART BASEL Hong Kong
BANK MABSociety
March 26th -30th, 2024
Booth 1D31
Untitled, 1979 Egg Series Gouache on rag paper 13 3/4 x 15”
THE TRANSFORMATIVE, UNCLASSIFIABLE ART OF CHING HO CHENG
ART BASEL
November 13, 2023
By John Yau
Astral Theatre, 1971. Gouache on rag board.
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM
American Voices and Visions
September 22, 2022- 2024
Kiss. 1971 Psychedelic Series. Gouache on rag board. 25 x 25”
Sybao Cheng-Wilson and Melissa Ho, curator at SAAM on opening night!
ADDISON GALLERY OF AMERICAN ART
Free Association: New Acquisitions in Context
September 1 - February 11, 2024
Untitled, 1980. Window Series. Gouache on rag board.
FRIEZE SEOUL, BANK MABSociety
September 6 -9, 2023
Ching Ho Cheng Untitled 1985. Torn Work Series. Graphite, charcoal, and pastel on rag paper.
TODAY ART MUSEUM, Beijing, China
Future of Today Biennial: To Your Eternity
July 23 - October 15, 2023
Sun Drawing Study, 1967. Marker pen on rag paper 14 x 18”.
Sun Drawing is in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION, Washington, DC
Pour Tear Carve, Material Possibilities in the Collection
March 18 - May 14, 2023
Ching Ho Cheng Untitled, 1985. UFO Series Charcoal and graphite on torn rag paper. 42 1/2 x 72 1/2”
SG ART FAIR, BANK MABSociety, Singapore
Booth # 1CO3
January 12 - 15, 2023
ART021, Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, BANK MABSociety
November 2022
“Eight Nails in a Plank”, 1975 CHC275106 Woodgrain Series 27 1/2 x 14”
FRIEZE SEOUL, KOREA
BANK MABSociety
COEX, 513 Yeongdong-daero,
Gangnam-gu, 06164, Seoul
September 2-5, 2022
Ching Ho Cheng Untitled, 1985. Match Series Study. Gouache on rag board. 23.5 x 10”
WALLACH ART GALLERY, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY
615 W 129 Street
New York 10027
Dead Lecturer/distant relative: Notes from the Woodshed, 1950-1980
Group Exhibition
Opening Event: Wednesday September 14, 6-8pm
July 9 - October 1, 2022
“Glossolalia” exhibited by
Courtesy of the Whitney Museum of American Art
Ching Ho Cheng Glossolalia, 1970. Gouache and ink on rag board. 30 x 30”
July 2022
OLGA KORPER GALLERY
Toronto, Canada
The Formless Body
Group Exhibition
June 4 - July 2, 2022
Book Release
DEVOTION: Today's Future is Tomorrow's Archive
Sybao Cheng-Wilson, sister of Ching Ho Cheng, interview.
To Order: http://www.publicjournal.ca/the-formless-body-exhibition/
Untitled, 1983. Shadow Box Series . Gouache on Rag Board. 60 1/4 x 24 1/4”
September 2022
SHEPHERD W&K GALLERIES
New York City
Ching Ho Cheng: The Minute With The Infinite, Evocations of the Artist
Tally Brown, 1972 Actress, Singer, Andy Warhol Superstar. Gouache and ink on rag board. 20 x 14”
April 2022
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION
100 Year Anniversary New Logo
Artist Julia Chon, “Ching Ho Cheng, Jennifer Wen Ma, Isamu Noguchi, Nikki S. Lee, and Alfonso Ossorio were and continue to be trailblazers in the art world and their works have left an indelible print on history and the story of Asian America”.
September 2022
NYU GREY ART GALLERY
Mostly New: Selections From The NYU Art Collection
Exhibition Dates: September 6 - December 17, 2022
Ching Ho Cheng was drawn to Taoism and other ancient philosophies while studying at The Cooper Union School of Art, and he would approach painting as a spiritual practice throughout his career. Although he initially employed a psychedelic iconography, he shifted to creating quieter pictures during the 1970s, frequently taking light for a subject. Cheng’s multifaceted exploration of light included trompe l’oeil paintings of the ephemeral patterns produced by sunlight playing across walls, images that fuse abstraction with detailed observation while carrying a subtle personal element, since they often depict the interiors of his or his friends’ homes. In his Window series, Cheng reduces recognizable imagery to a minimum by tightly framing shapes made by light funneled through windows, a source he reproduces so convincingly in this example that it may appear the artist’s hand is wholly absent. By setting these artworks within deep frames, Cheng makes real shadows fall across their painted counterparts, inviting a confusion of representation and reality.
NYU Grey Art Gallery, Ching Ho Cheng, Untitled, 1983. Window Series Gouache on rag board. 30 x 30”
April 2022
CHING HO CHENG ALBUM COVER
Grammy Award Winner Jane Ira Bloom & Mark Helias
https://markhelias.bandcamp.com/album/see-our-way
January 2022
MASTER DRAWINGS NEW YORK 2022
SHEPHERD GALLERY
58 E79 Street
Exhibition Dates: January 21 - 29, 2022
Preview Evening:
Friday, January 21, 3 - 8 pm
September 2021
SMITH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART
SCMA Then/Now/Next, Centennial
Group Exhibition
Sept. 11, 2020–Jan. 2, 2022
March 2021
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
Art History From Home: Asian American Perspectives
Tuesday, March 16 @ 6:00 pm
This session, led by teaching fellow Xin Wang will explore work by American artists of Asian descent, including Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ching Ho Cheng, Martin Wong, and An-My Lê, alongside artworks that engage with aspects of “Asian-ness” by artists from other backgrounds, such as Roy Lichtenstein and Ed Ruscha. Looking at these works together, we will consider what it means for an ethnic and cultural identity to be the frame through which we experience and understand representation and artistic expression.
December 2020
SMITHSONIAN AMERICAN ART MUSEUM
Acquisition
”Kiss” 1971, Psychedelic Series. Gouache and ink on rag board
”Litter” Study, 1978. Gouache on rag board
”Blues Rock”, 1985. Graphite and pastel on rag paper
"Untitled, 1988. Torso from the Alchemical Series
CHC Print Collection 1979
November 2020
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
Art History From Home: Asian American Perspectives
Tuesday, November 17th, 2020 @ 6:00 pm
Encore lecture via Zoom
This session will explore work by American artists of Asian descent, including Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ching Ho Cheng, Martin Wong, and An-My Lê, alongside artworks that engage with aspects of “Asian-ness” by artists from other backgrounds, such as RoyLichtenstein and Ed Ruscha. Looking at these works together, we will consider what it means for an ethnic and cultural identity to be the frame through which we experience and understand representation and artistic expression.
Xin Wang is a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney and a Ph.D. candidate in modern and contemporary art at The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. She is the curator of numerous exhibitions in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and her latest writings have appeared in Art in America, Art Agenda, and Wallpaper (Chinese edition). She is currently planning an exhibition that explores Asian Futurisms for The Museum of Chinese in America in New York City.
Ching Ho Cheng “Angel Head” 1971. Gouache and ink on rag board 30 x 40” . CHC and Tally Brown, 1970’s.
September 2020
“The Carrot” by Ching Ho Cheng will be on exhibit at BCB ART “Works on Paper” this Fall.
BCB ART
116 Warren Street
Hudson, New York
518 828 4539
It was in the mid 1970’s that Ching Ho Cheng created his series of fruit and vegetable gouache works while living in New York and Amsterdam. You may wonder why a carrot? And is this a real carrot or one created by the artist’s imagination. As his sister, I can tell you this was an actual carrot made by mother nature herself! His study of Taoism may very well be the impetus behind this series as certain fruits and vegetables are known to symbolize immortality and unity in several cultures and religions around the world. Ching was a spiritual person and it is no surprise that the wisdom he attained from "The Tree of Life” and its principles had a profound connection to his work.
Ching Ho Cheng “The Carrot”, 1975 Gouache on paper 7 1/2 x 5 1/2 "
May 2020 Asian American/Asian Research Institute, CUNY FORUM
Light at the End of the Tunnel By Sybao Cheng-Wilson
https://aaari.info/cuny-forum-8-cheng-wilson/
Ching Ho Cheng “The Flame” 1978. Limted Edition print
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
Art History From Home: Asian American Perspectives
Thursday, May 21, 2020 @ 12:00 pm
Online via Zoom
This session will explore work by American artists of Asian descent, including Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Ching Ho Cheng, Martin Wong, and An-My Lê, alongside artworks that engage with aspects of “Asian-ness” by artists from other backgrounds, such as RoyLichtenstein and Ed Ruscha. Looking at these works together, we will consider what it means for an ethnic and cultural identity to be the frame through which we experience and understand representation and artistic expression.
Xin Wang is a Joan Tisch Teaching Fellow at the Whitney and a Ph.D. candidate in modern and contemporary art at The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU. She is the curator of numerous exhibitions in the U.S., Europe, and Asia, and her latest writings have appeared in Art in America, Art Agenda, and Wallpaper (Chinese edition). She is currently planning an exhibition that explores Asian Futurisms for The Museum of Chinese in America in New York City.
Ching Ho Cheng “Angel Head” 1971. Gouache and ink on rag board 30 x 40” Whitney Museum of American Art
November 2019
The newly released, " Hotel Chelsea, Living in the Last Bohemian Haven” dedicates one chapter to the late Ching Ho Cheng and his work which remains in his original apartment with his sister Sybao Cheng-Wilson and family. This beautiful coffee table book unveils an array of wildly eclectic hotel suites photographed by the architectural photographer Colin Miller with text written by Ray Mock. Mock interviews the remaining tenants who moved to the hotel decades ago to unfold their unique stories of how and
why they chose the Hotel Chelsea
as their home.
Available at Rizzoli and Amazon
In commemoration of my brother
Ching Ho Cheng
on the 30th Year Anniversary of his passing,
You are invited to join us
Constructing Identity in America 1766 - 2017
Curated By Gail Stavitsky
at the
Montclair Art Museum
on
Friday, June 7, 2019 @ 2:00pm
Sybao Cheng-Wilson lecture
2019 MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM
"Constructing Identity in America" 1766 - 2017
Exhibition dates: September 1, 2018 - January 5, 2020
SMITH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART
Acquisition
“Certainty of Blue IX” 1984, Torn Works Series
2018 SMITH COLLEGE MUSEUM OF ART
Acquisition
CHC Print Collection
Untitled, 1983 Shadow Box Series
Untitled, 1987 Alchemical Series
MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM
Constructing Identity in America 1766 - 2017
Exhibition dates: September 1, 2018 - January 5, 2020
GREY ART GALLERY, NYU
Acquisition
Untitled, 1983. Window Series, gouache works
THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION
Acquisition
Untitled, 1985. UFO Series, torn paper works
SHIN GALLERY - 68 Orchard Street, New York City
68-18 Exhibition
March 9 - April 22, 2018
BCB ART GALLERY - 116 Warren Street, Hudson, New York
Editions
March 10 - April 15, 2018
2017 MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM
Acquisition
Mudsong, 1986
CUNY/FORUM ASIAN AMERICAN STUDIES
Ching Ho Cheng, Oxidation By Russell Leong
View PDF
Cover: Ching Ho Cheng
LAXART GALLERY - 7000 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA
"Reconstitution" Exhibition
April 23 - May 27, 2017
“Kiss”, 1971. Psychedelic Series. Gouache and ink on rag board. 25 X 25”
2016 DETROIT INSTITUTE OF ARTS MUSEUM
Acquisitions
Untitled, 1985. Black/Blue Torn Works Series
Untitled, 1987. Alchemical Torso Series
2015 WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
Acquisition
Sun Drawing Study, 1970
SHEPHERD W & K GALLERIES -- 58 E 79th Street, New York City
The Five Elements Solo Exhibition
April 7, 2015 - May 16, 2015
Exhibition Catalog
SinoVision Video
2014 CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Acquisition
Study for Queenie 1972
2012 WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART
Sinister Pop Exhibition
Nov 15, 2012 - Mar 13, 2013
Angel Head , 1971 on exhibition
Package on Hand Truck, 1973. By Christo.
Angel Head, 1971. Center Ching Ho Cheng Gouache and ink on rag board. 30 x 40”
Whitney Museum of American Art
2011 CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART
Acquisitions
Queenie, 1972
Waterfall, Chelsea Hotel, New York", 1978
2010 WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN OF ART
Acquisitions
Sun Drawing, 1970
Glossolalia, 1970
Angel Head, 1971