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Cheng Cheng, born in 1996, China, is a multidisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles, working in sculptures, photography, printmaking, and theater productions. Cheng's fascination with the industrial process and the concept of modernity is reflected through the choice of material and subject. By reenacting the industrial process and the formalist approach to the structure, it produces a sense of control in the work. And within that structure, the glitch is present and highlighted as a poetic gesture.
Cheng received a BFA degree in Fine Art from Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, and receive a MFA degree in Art and Technology at California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. Cheng's work has been exhibited in The Box, Hutto-Patterson Exhibition Hall, Art Center College of Design student galleries, ArtCenter DTLA, Keystone Gallery, and Gallery ALSO.
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EDUCATION
2019 B.F.A., Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2022 M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
SOLO EXHIBITION
2022
“Commemorate of the Pickle Jar”, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2019
"A Global Survey Through Autonomous Drawing” , Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
“W4”, Gallery ALSO, Los Angeles, CA
2019
“Offgrid”, Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA
2018
"A Living Treasure: Thirty Years of Anthony Zepeda and the Art Center Printmaking Studio", Hutto-Patterson Exhibition Hall, Pasadena, CA
"Unseen Space", Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
2017
"Guilty Pleasure", Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
"Clear Gaze", Fine Art Society, Pasadena, CA
THEATER PRODUCTION
2018
"Nice Day for the Races", an Opera by Michael Webster and Breath Control Orchestra, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS
Alice Epstein O'Connor Scholarship
Art Center College of Design Fine Art Department Scholarship
Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography Innovation Award
San Marino League Fine Art Scholarship
RELATED EXPERIENCE
Digital Project and Prototype Specialist at Gemini G.E.L.
Printer at Gemini G.E.L.
Art Center College of Design Fine Art Department Media Lab TA.
Art Center College of Design Model Shop Instructor
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Exhibition and Event
Bondage is a video work that captures the artist playing a popular video game, Just Dance while wearing his custom-designed drawing machine. Departed from A Global Survey Through Autonomous Drawing, the machine traces the wearer's movement and heartbeat in three dimensions and creates a piece of evidence in a form of abstract drawing. Just like the machine Just Dance utilizes cameras and laser to recognize the player's body, it creates a map based on predetermined criteria. While dancing to a censored version of Britney Spears's famous mantra Work B**ch, the safety harness that connects the artist to the machine turns erotic or possessive. The harness becomes an object of constraints and desire.
With the intention to document space and noting the body's presence, A Global Survey Through Autonomous Drawing is an on-going project that uses wearable drawing machines to record the movement and heartbeat of the wearer in the form of line drawing. By traveling to a specific site and taking a film photograph, each place is “mapped” as one abstract drawing and one picturesque view. During the processes, unintended errors and glitches are acknowledged and embraced, challenging the stake of individuality and agency in the age of digital automation.
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Pasadena to Sepulveda to Atwater Village (2018)
16” x 16” (drawing), 11” x 13” (photo)
ink on paper, silver gelatin print
16” x 16” (drawing), 11” x 13” (photo)
ink on paper, silver gelatin print
Two Days Trip Between Pasadena and San Francisco (2018)
16” x 16” (drawing), 11” x 13” (photo)
ink on paper, silver gelatin print
16” x 16” (drawing), 11” x 13” (photo)
ink on paper, silver gelatin print
Drawing Machine One (2018)
16” x 19” x 19”
metal, wood, harwares, ink pen
16” x 19” x 19”
metal, wood, harwares, ink pen
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Flight from Connecticut to California (2018)
12” x 12” (drawing), 11” x 13” (print)
framed ink on paper, gelatin silver print
12” x 12” (drawing), 11” x 13” (print)
framed ink on paper, gelatin silver print
Sycamore Canyon Trail (2018)
12” x 12” (drawing), 11” x 13” (print)
framed ink on paper, gelatin silver print
12” x 12” (drawing), 11” x 13” (print)
framed ink on paper, gelatin silver print
Panamint Sand Dunes (2019)
12” x 12” (drawing), 11” x 13” (print)
framed ink on paper, gelatin silver print
12” x 12” (drawing), 11” x 13” (print)
framed ink on paper, gelatin silver print
Drawing Machine Two (2018)
9.5” x 14.5” x 14.5”
aluminum frame, wood, harwares, backpack strap, ink pen
9.5” x 14.5” x 14.5”
aluminum frame, wood, harwares, backpack strap, ink pen
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