Education
Royal College of Artist
Royal College of Artist
Spiritual undertones are balanced alongside familiar contemporary images including sources from popular media, cyberspace, nature, graffiti, kitsch, and historical painting. Cheung has recently used video animation and sculpture in his work, but focuses mainly on painting. He chooses bold colors and often paints on dense collages made from London"s pink Financial Times listings with ink, oil, acrylic gel and spray paint.
During an interview he has said of his work: "They"re meant to be artificially luminous, a metaphor perhaps for the loss of that utopian vision of the future after the millennium bug threat, the dot com crash, the collapse of Enron, the war on terrorand all before the current recession.
Yet it"s also meant to suggest a glimmer of hope."
Cheung received an Master of Fine Arts from the Royal College of Art in 2001, and currently lives and works in London. He exhibits internationally and was in the largest and most ambitious survey of recent developments in art from the United Kingdom.
The British Art Show 6 and The John Moores Painting 24. He was commissioned for a Laing Art Solo Award (Selected by Susan May) July 2007.
2009 solo shows include "The Promised Land", Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, "Art in the Age of Anxiety" Volta New York City, New York and "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse", The New Art Gallery Walsall United Kingdom. Cheung"s first United States solo museum exhibition was at the Arizona State University Art Museum in 2010.
Cheung"s works can be found in major collections both in Europe and America including the Hirshhorn Museum, Whitworth Museum, Arizona State University Art Museum, The New Art Gallery Walsall, Knoxville Art Museum, Hiscox Collection, Progressive Arts Collection, Union Bank of Switzerland Collection and the Gottesman Collection, Elspeth & Imogen Turner Collection (United Kingdom) and Stephane Janssen Collection (United States of America). Works from both collections are loaned to major museums on a regular basis.