Ching Ho Cheng, 1985 in his Chelsea Hotel studio. Torn Works Series, UFO, Charcoal and graphite on paper. 10 x 15’
BORN
Havana, Cuba
December 26, 1946 - May 25, 1989
AWARDS & GRANTS
1985 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1984 Artists Space/Committee of Visual Arts Grant
1982 Jurors' Award, Small Works, New York University
1966 Painting Fellowship, The Provincetown Workshop, Massachusetts
1963 NYU Painting Workshop Scholarship
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Art Basel Miami, Solo Exhibition, BANK Gallery
2022 The Minute With The Infinite, Evocations of the Artist, Shepherd W&K Galleries, New York 2021 More Life, David Zwirner, New York
2015 The Five Elements, Shepherd W&K Galleries, New York
2008 A Retrospective, Shepherd & Derom Galleries, New York
2004 Studio Light Chelsea Hotel, BCB Art Gallery, Hudson, New York
1996 Transformations, Janos Gat Gallery, New York
1988 Works on Paper, Sylvia Cordish Fine Art, Baltimore, Maryland
The Alchemical Garden, Installation at Bruno Facchetti Gallery, New York
1987 The Grotto, Window Installation, Grey Art Museum, New York University
1986 Bruno Facchetti Gallery, New York
1985 Bruno Facchetti Gallery, New York
Shepherd Gallery, New York
1984 Fordham University, New York
1983 The Fugitive Light, The Alternative Museum, New York
1982 Shepherd Gallery, New York
1980 Intimate Illuminations, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York
1978 Auras en Andere Verschijnselen, Kunsthandel K276, Amsterdam, Holland
1977 Gloria Cortella Gallery, New York
1976 Kunsthandel K276, Amsterdam, Holland
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Art Basel Miami, BANK Gallery
ART021, Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, BANK Gallery
The Appearance: Art of the Asian Diaspora in Latin America & the Carribbean,
Americas Society, NYC
Legacies: Asian American Art Movements in NYC 1969-2001, 80 WSE, NYC
Art Basel, Hong Kong, BANK Gallery
2023 I Remember You Well in the Chelsea Hotel, Fleiss-Vallois Gallery, NYC
American Voices and Visions, Smithsonian American Art Museum, DC
Free Association: New Acquisitions in Context, Addison Gallery of American Art,
Andover, MA
Frieze Seoul, BANK Gallery
Future of Today Biennial: To Your Eternity, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Pour, Tear, Carve, Material Possibilities in the Collection, The Phillips Collection, DC
SG Art Fair, Singapore, BANK Gallery
Mostly New: Selections from the NYU Art Collection, NYU Grey Art Museum, New York
2022 ART021, Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair, BANK Gallery
Frieze Seoul, Korea, BANK Gallery
The Armory Show, Javits Center, New York, BANK Gallery
Dead Lecturer/distant relative: Notes from the Woodshed, 1950-1980,
Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
The Formless Body, Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Mostly New: Selections from the NYU Art Collection, New York
Master Drawings, Shepherd W&K Galleries, New York
2021 SCMA Then/Now/Next, Centennial, Smith College Museum of Art, MA
2019 Constructing Identity in America, 1766 - 2017,
Montclair Art Museum , Montclair New Jersey
2018 68-18, Shin Gallery, New York
Edition, BCB Art Gallery, Hudson, New York
2017 Reconstitution, LAXART Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Winter Group Show, BCB Art Gallery, Hudson, New York
2016 Winter Group Show, BCB Art Gallery, Hudson, New York
2014 Winter Group Show, BCB Art Gallery, Hudson, New York
2013 Nocturnal, BCB Art Gallery, Hudson, New York
2012 Sinister Pop, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2010 Lifelike, BCB Art Gallery, Hudson, New York
2009 Selections, BCB Art Gallery, Hudson, New York
2007 Collectors' Choices, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York
2007 Vice, BCB Art Gallery, Hudson, New York
2005 Summer 2005, BCB Art Gallery, Hudson, New York
2000 Tenth Anniversary, Janos Gat Gallery, New York
1990 The Fifth Essence, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York
1989 Selected Works, Grey Art Gallery, New York
1987 New Approaches to Drawing, Newark Museum, New Jersey
1986 Paper Now, Bent, Folded & Manipulated, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
1984 Two-Man Show with Jeff Adams, Bruno Facchetti Gallery, New York
1983 Painted Light, Artist's Choice Museum Show, traveling to Reading Museum,
Queens Museum and Butler Institute of Art
Made in America: 200 Years of Drawing, Minneapolis Institute of Art, MN
1982 Small Works, New York University, New York
1981 Recent Acquisitions, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
1974 Basel Art Fair, Galerie Schreiner, Basel, Switzerland
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Minneapolis Institute of Art
Montclair Art Museum
NYU Grey Art Gallery
Portland Museum of Art
The Phillips Collection
Joseph E. Seagram, Inc.
Syracuse University Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Smith College Museum of Art
University Museum, University of PA
James D. Wolfensohn, Inc.
Whitney Museum of American Art
Yeh Art Gallery, St. John’s University
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Addison Gallery of American Art
Atlantic Richfield Company
Bank of Miami
Bellevue Hospital Center
Brooklyn Museum
Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University
Chase Manhattan Bank
Cleveland Museum of Art
DC Collection, Chiangma, Thailand
Detroit Institute of Arts
Everson Museum of Art
Exxon, Inc.
First Arabian Investment Corp.
Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 Millet-Sorsa, Amanda,
The Appearance: Art of the Asian Diaspora in Latin America and the Carribbean.
2023 Yau, John, The Transformative, Unclassifiable Art of Ching Ho Cheng. Art Basel
Sunpride Foundation, Ching Ho Cheng, The Subtlety of Expression.
2022 Earnest, Jarrett, Public 65—Devotion: Today's Future is Tomorrow's Archive.
Book Published by Public, June issue.
Shepherd W&K Galleries, Ching Ho Cheng, The Minute with the Infinite,
Evocations of the Artist catalogue.
2021 David Zwirner, Ching Ho Cheng, More Life catalogue
Tanner Tafelsk, More Life: Ching Ho Cheng ArtAsiaPacific, November issue online.
2020 Cheng-Wilson, Sybao, Light at the End of the Tunnel,
Asian American/Asian Research Institute CUNY Volume 8, May issue online
2017 Leong, Russell, Ching Ho Cheng, Oxidation. CUNY/FORUM, Winter/Fall issue
2008 Goodman, Jonathan, Ching Ho Cheng, YISHU, January 2008, pp. 18-24.
2004 Baim, Richard, (BCB Art Gallery review), The Independent, July 30, p. 32.
1990 Freeman, Phyllis, Ching Ho Cheng, New Art, Harry N. Abrams Publishers
1989 Schiff, Gert, Ching Ho Cheng, Contemporanea, July/August, p. 112 (ill.)
1988 Geldzahler, Henry, Studio Visit: Ching Ho Cheng, Contemporanea, Nov/ Dec issue
Campbell, Lawrence, Review, Art in America, Sept, pp. 191, 193 (ill.)
Mueller, Cookie, Art & About, Details Magazine, January, p. 86.
1987 Stavitsky, Gail, Ching Ho Cheng, Arts Magazine, January, p. 113 (ill.)
Puvogel, Renate, (Bruno Facchetti Gallery review), Das Kunstwerk, March issue.
1986 Glaubinger, Jane, Paper Now, Bent, Folded & Manipulated, catalog,
Cleveland Museum of Art, pp. 26-27 (ill.)
Print Collector's Newsletter Vol. XVIII, No. 5, Nov/Dec, News of the Print World:
People & Places, p. 174 (ill.)
Schiff, Gert, Torn Together, Art Forum, Jan, pp. 82-85 (ill.)
1983 Millard, Gregory, Schuilplatsen Van Licht: Schilderijen Van Ching Ho
Cheng, De Ronde Tafel, Vol. 2, pp. 35-37 (ill.)
1982 Raynor, Vivien, Exhibition at Shepherd Gallery, The New York Times, July 9, p. 21 C
1980 Bershstein, David Andres, Chinese Themes of Permanence: An Update
Christian Science Monitor, January 29, p. 16.
1978 Van Garrel, Betty, Exhibition at Kunsthandel K 276, NRC Handelsblad, March 31, p. 2 C.
1977 Kohn, Jaacov, A Conversation: Ching Ho Cheng, The Soho Weekly News,
Pomfret, Margaret, Exhibition at Gloria Cortella Gallery, Arts Magazine, April.
1976 Kelk, Fanny, Exhibition at Kunsthandel K 276, Het Parool, February 27, p. 27.
Rattray, David, Ching Ho Cheng: Visualizing the Invisible, Bres Vol. 61 pp. 66-75.
1974 Gassiot-Talabot, Gerard Schreiner, Exhibition at Basel Art Fair, Opus International