{"id":7237,"title":"Shu Lea Cheang","kind":"bio","url":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/shu-lea-cheang","version":"16f969115ff5eb518a67b3d2ca75472f3d4297be048e4bec05e5fa34215707a5","modified":"2023-05-15T03:09:27+00:00","credits":[],"authorKeys":[],"subjects":["bio"],"metadata":[{"label":"First name","value":"Shu Lea","url":null},{"label":"Last name","value":"Cheang","url":null}],"citations":{"page":"\u0022Shu Lea Cheang.\u0022 Video History Project, Experimental Television Center, 2023. https://www.videohistoryproject.org/shu-lea-cheang.","publication":null,"risUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/citation/7237.ris"},"links":[{"label":"http://bowlingalley.walkerart.org","url":"http://bowlingalley.walkerart.org","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"http://www.ntticc.or.jp/HoME","url":"http://www.ntticc.or.jp/HoME","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"https://brandon.guggenheim.org","url":"https://brandon.guggenheim.org","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"http://www.I-K-U.com","url":"http://www.I-K-U.com","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"http://netzspannung.org/CARRYON/","url":"http://netzspannung.org/CARRYON/","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"http://babyplay.ntticc.or.jp","url":"http://babyplay.ntticc.or.jp","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"http://www.telepolis.de/english/kunst/nk/shopping/default.html","url":"http://www.telepolis.de/english/kunst/nk/shopping/default.html","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"https://expertbase.net","url":"https://expertbase.net","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"http://211.73.224.150","url":"http://211.73.224.150","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"http://www.shine02.org","url":"http://www.shine02.org","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"https://www.dasarts.nl","url":"https://www.dasarts.nl","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"http://www.xcult.org/apt_shulea","url":"http://www.xcult.org/apt_shulea","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"https://www.rich-air.com","url":"https://www.rich-air.com","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null},{"label":"https://www.waag.org","url":"https://www.waag.org","relationship":"record body link","contentType":null}],"sections":[{"name":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"characters":7819},{"name":"summary","source":"existing VHP generated summary","generated":true,"characters":783}],"content":{"section":"body","source":"VHP record body","generated":false,"text":"Shu Lea Cheang, once a New York based media installation artist/filmmaker, is now living a digitalized version of a drifter. Her video installations, structured to activate cross-cultural collaboration, include COLOR SCHEMES (1990, Whitney Museum, New York), The AIRWAVES PROJECT (1991, Capp Street Project, San Francisco), Those Fluttering Objects of Desire (1992, Exit Art, 1993, Whitney Museum Biennale Exhibition, New York). Her feature film FRESH KILL (80 minutes, 35mm), was premiered at Berlin International Film Festival (1994) and included in the Whitney Museum Biennale Exhibition (1995). Bowling Alley (1995), http://bowlingalley.walkerart.org Buy One Get One (1997), http://www.ntticc.or.jp/HoME Brandon (1998-1999) https://brandon.guggenheim.org I.K.U. (2000), http://www.I-K-U.com CARRYON (2002), http://netzspannung.org/CARRYON/ Baby Play (2001), http://babyplay.ntticc.or.jp Expand (2001), http://www.telepolis.de/english/kunst/nk/shopping/default.html Everyone is an expert (2001), https://expertbase.net Kingdom of Piracy (2001-2002, co-curation), http://211.73.224.150 STOP (2002), Amnesty International Shine02 online art site, http://www.shine02.org HUMANMATERIALMACHINEFACTOR, Dasarts (2002), https://www.dasarts.nl apt (2002), http://www.xcult.org/apt_shulea st(r)eaming the fields (2002), https://www.rich-air.com theatrum digitalis (2002-2003), https://www.waag.org Over the years, she has done installations that traverse actual and virtual spaces: Bowling Alley (1995, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis) net-links a local bowling lane with the Walker Art Center\u0027s gallery space and a cyber-bowl site http://bowlingalley.walkerart.org). Elephant Cage Butterfly Locker (1996, Atopic Site Exhibition, Tokyo, sponsored by Tokyo Government on Public Art), reverts radar detect on Okinawa\u0027s US military base. BUY ONE GET ONE (1997, awarded 2nd prize and permanent collection, NTT/ICC Biennale Exhibition, Tokyo; part of the 2nd Johannesburg Biennale special project), locates net-access in Africa and Asia with a bento digi-suitcase. http://www.ntticc.or.jp/HoME BRANDON is Guggenheim Museum\u0027s first commission of web art projects and was produced in association with DeWaag, Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam, Banff Center for the Arts, Canada and Institute on Art and Civic Dialogue, Harvard University. https://brandon.guggenheim.org Garlic = Rich Air was launched at the 50th Venice Biennale. An accompanying large-scale installation is exhibited at the Palazzo delle Prigioni. Burn (kop.fact.co.uk/burn) and RichAir2030 (kop.fact.co.uk/richair), were also presented at the Venice Biennale, in \u0022Zone of Urgency,\u0022 curated by Hou Hanru. EDUCATION 1979 New York University, M.A. in Cinema Studies 1976 National Taiwan University, B.A. in History SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2003 Zone of Urgency, curated by Hou Hanru, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Hardcore, curated by Jerome Sans, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France Burn, FACT, Liverpool, England LOVE, Magazin 4 (Vorarlberger Kunstverein), Bregenz, Austria 2002 The Field Project, New York, NY Metropolis, Art Chicago 2002, Chicago, IL Body Ploy, symposium at AIM II: Luna Park Project and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles Shrink to fit, Museum of Communication, Bern Stop, Amnesty International online digital art exhibition, The Amory Show 2002, New York, NY Kingdom of Piracy, ArtFuture2002, Acer Digital Art Center,Taiwan 2001 Centro Andaluz de Arte Contempor\u00B7eo, Seville, Spain Scifi Digi Porn, Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago (solo exhibition) Baby Play, InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo (solo exhibition) I.K.U. Stripped, Women Art Network, Tokyo I.K.U., Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (screening) Body as Byte, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland 2000 Taipei Biennale, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan Fluid, The Project, New York (solo exhibition) Carry On, Media Arts \u0026 Research Studies (MARS), Institute for Media Communication, Bonn, Germany I.K.U., Premiere, Sundance Film Festival I.K.U., ICA, London, England Dystopia and Identity in the Age of Global Communications, Tribes Gallery, New York, NY Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan 1999 Brandon, Guggenheim Museum, New York, co-production with Banff Center for the Arts, Canada, DeWaag, Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam 1997 Buy One Get One, ICC Biennale, Tokyo, Japan (award, catalogue) 1996 Elephant Cage Butterfly Locker, Atopic Site exhibition, Tokyo 1995 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Bowling Alley, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis 1994 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (solo exhibition) Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (solo exhibition) Fresh Kill, Berlin International Film Festival 1993 To Enter, The Final Frontier Exhibition, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1992 The Museum of Modern Art (solo exhibition) Those Fluttering Objects of Desire, Exit Art, New York (solo exhibition) 1991 The Airwaves Project, CAPP Street Project, San Francisco, California 1990 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (solo exhibition) Making News/Making History, The Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston International Center For Photography, New York (solo exhibition) The Feminist \u0022I\u0022, The Brooklyn Museum, New York 1980-90 A producing member of media collectives, Paper Tiger TV \u0026 Deep Dish TV SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Asai, Takashi. \u0022Fingers and Kisses.\u0022 Dice, Japan, 1995. Bailey, Andy. \u0022Tokyo Porn.\u0022 The Face, Vol 3, number 46, November 2000. Carr, C. \u0022In Carr, On Edge: Performance at the End of the Twentieth Century.\u0022 Hanover, New Hampshire: Wesleyan University Press, pgs. 206 - 11, 1993. Chua, Lawrence and Hagedorn, Jessica. \u0022A Dialogue on Fresh Kill.\u0022 Bomb, New York, 1994. Chua, Lawrence, \u0022An Odd Circuit,\u0022 Art Asia Pacific, Fall edition 2000. Furlong, Lucinda. \u0022Shu Lea Cheang.\u0022 The New American Film and Video Series. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1990. Furlong, Lucinda. \u0022Gender Bending, Works of Shu Lea Cheang.\u0022 College Press, 1996. Grundberg, Andy. \u0022Making News/Making History: Live From Tiananmen Square.\u0022 The New York Times, June 22, 1990. Hanhardt, John. \u0022Media Art Worlds: New Expressions in Film and Video,\u0022 1991-93, 1993 Biennial Exhibition. New York : Whitney Museum of American Art : Harry N. Abrams, 1993. pgs. 36-5. Highs, Kathy and Cheang, Shu Lea, eds. \u0022Shot/Reverse Shot, A Cross Circuit Videologue.\u0022 Felix, New York, 1992. Howell, John, ed. \u0022Breakthroughs, Avant Garde Artists in Europe and America,\u0022 1950-1990, Wexner Center for the Arts, New York: Rizzoli, 1991. Kotz, Liz. \u0022Shu Lea Cheang at Exit Art.\u0022 Art In America, Vol 81, January 1993, p.106. Kroker, Arthur and Marilouise, \u0022Web Delirium, The Okinawa Project.\u0022 Digital Delirium. New York: St. Martin\u0027s Press, 1997. Nakamoto, Akio. \u0022Shu Lea Cheang.\u0022 Wired Japan, 1995. Ralli, Tania and Mc Neil, Brett. \u0022Porn Free.\u0022 Chicago Journal. July 19, 2001. Stamets, Bill. \u0022Now Playing: Visions of a cyber-Satyricon.\u0022 Chicago Reader, July 13, 2001, Vol 30. \u0022Whitney Biennial.\u0022 Art Forum, April, 1993. \u0022Hot List.\u0022 Rolling Stone, August 30, 2001, pg. 76. SELECTED GRANTS The Rockefeller Foundation, Moving Image Installation and Interactive Media Fellowship AT\u0026T, New Voice/ New Visions National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Arts Fellowship Asian Cultural Council Fellowship Civitella Ranieri Fellowship, Italy The Mondrian Foundation, Ministry for Cultural Affairs, Holland The New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Artist in Residency, Amsterdam Fonds voor de Kunst Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue, Harvard University New York Foundation for the Arts, Computer Art Fellowship Innovative Filmmaker of Outstanding Achievement, Mix Festival, New York New York State Council on the Arts Lyn Blumenthal Memorial Fund for Independent Media Award","offset":0,"nextOffset":null,"totalCharacters":7819,"complete":true},"rightsUrl":"https://www.videohistoryproject.org/terms-service"}