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SOLO EXHIBITIONS 

2006        Winston Wachter Fine Art, New York
                 Ayala Museum, Makati, Philippines
2005        Triple Candie,  Facade Project, New York
                  2x13 Gallery, New York (with Ran Hwang), curated by Lilly Wei
2004        Plumblossoms Gallery, New York, NY (with Lois Conner)
2002        Winston Wächter Mayer Fine Art, New York, NY
                 Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
                 Hobart and William Smith College Gallery, New York
2001        Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1998        Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1997        Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines
                 Christine’s Gallery, Baguio City, Philippines
                 Bravin Post Lee, New York, NY, Projects Room
1996        Hanart T.Z. Gallery, Hong Kong; catalog essay by Lilly Wei & Tsong Zung Chang
1994        The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; booklet by Elaine King
1993        Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1992        David Beitzel Gallery, New York
                 Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1990        Lang & O’Hara Gallery, New York
                 Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1989        The Bronx Museum, New York
1988        Lang & O’Hara Gallery, New York 
1987        Lang & O’Hara Gallery, New York
1985        White Columns, New York
1983        Pittsburgh Plan for Art. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
                 55 Mercer Street Artists, Inc. New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006         "Dragon Veins", USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida
2005         Group show, Hammond Museum, North Adams, NY
                  "Magic Gardens" Kidspace @ MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA with Tim Rollins, 
                  KOS and Timothy    Basil Ering
2004         "Hanart 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Hong Kong Art Centre, Hong Kong
                    "The Annual", National Academy of Arts, New York, NY
                   "The Body" 473 Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Jeff Koan Baysa
2003          "The Radical Line", Bowling State University, Ohio, curated by Ethan Cohen, 
                   catalog
                   "Rally for Triple Candie", Triple Candie, New York
2002          DDM Warehouse, Shanghai, People's Republic of China
                    "Visual Dialogue" China 2000, New York, New York
                   "Longmarch Project" Maotai, People's Republic of China
                   Asilah Arts Festival, Asilah, Morocco, Mural
                   "The Players-Asian American Art" Asian American Art Center, New York, NY
                   "Faculty Exhibition" Anderson Ranch, Snowmass, CO
2001         “China Without Borders,”Sotheby’s, New York, NY
                   “Plant Life,” Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
                   “Transpoly Blue,” Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2000         “8.30.00,” Gallery 138, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, curated by William
                  Radawec
                  “Twice Born: Beauty,” The Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
                  curated   by Shelly Bancroft
                  “Abstraction in Painting,” Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle,NY, curated  
                  by W.  Huang and K. Gass
                  “The Figure: Another side of Modernism,” Newhouse Center, Snug Harbor 
                  Cultural Center, Staten Island;  curated by Lilly Wei, catalog
                 “Crossing Borders,” Bowman, Penelec & Megahan Galleries, Meadville, Pa
                 “Sensibilities,” Boothe Contemporary Art, Wakefield, Rhode Island
                 “LaCoste 1999”, Alliance Francaise, New York, N.Y.
                 “What Goes Around,” Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, N.Y.
                 “American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Show,” American Academy,
                 N.Y.
                 “OVERTHETOPFRENZY,” Kingsborough College Art Gallery, N.Y.
1999        “Working Together,” The Art Museum, University of New Hampshire,Durham,
                  N.H.,  catalog
                  “The Masters of Graphic Arts, International Biennial,” Municipal Museum of 
                  Gyor, Hungary, catalog
                 “THE STROKE,” Exit Art, New York; curated by Kerry James Marshall
                 “Personal Visions, A Survey of Contemporary Photography,” Ayala Museum,
                 Makati,  Philippines
1998         “Rose Selavy,” Jefferson Bank, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, curated by Alicia
                  P. Felton
                 “Urban Encounters,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York         
                 “Group Show,”  Debs & Co. New York, New York
                 “Faculty Show,” Anderson Ranch Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
                 “Preview,” Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City Missouri
                 “Group Show,” Jon Oulman Gallery, Minneapolis Minnesota
                 “Part of the Fabric,” Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, 
                 Rhode Island
1997         “1997 Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina
                 “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, NOT,” Parsons School of Design Gallery, 
                 New York
                 “ABOX,”Marsha Meteyka Gallery, Washington, D.C.
                 “March Six,” Ikon Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Bill Radawec
                 “Group Show,” Katherine E. Nash Gallery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis
1996         “Photographism in Painting,” Pratt Manhattan Galleries, New York catalog            
                  “Special Exhibition, Iris Prints,” Los Angeles Art Exo, 1996, curated by Bill
                  Radawec
                 “Allegory and Identity,” Visceleglia Art Center, Caldwell, New Jersey    
                 “New York,”(3 person) Kunsthaus in Hofgarten, Munich, Germany
                 “Patchwork”, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
                 “The Electric Muse,” Mazmanian Gallery, Framingham State College,
                 Massachusetts
                 “Painting ‘96,” Sharadin Art Gallery, Kuztown Univ., Kutztown, Pennsylvania
1995        “Digital Dialects, New Paradigms,” Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston,Mass.
                 “Master of Graphics Art International Biennial,” Muveszeti Museum,Gyor, 
                 Hungary, curated by E. A. King 
                 “Group Show,” Stonehouse Gallery, Litchfield, Ma.
                 “Not Not Part 1,” E.S. Vandam Gallery, New York
                 “Contradictory Conclusions,” The Gallery at Northhampton, Pa. curated by 
                Rhonda Wall
                 “Asian Reflections,” New York University, New York
                 “Works on Paper,” S. Cono, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Chris Martin   
 1994       “East/West, Cross Culture Influences in Painting,” E.S.Vandam, New York
                 “Flooding Camera,” The Workspace, at Dolgeros, Newman and Cronin; 
                 New York
                 “Couples,”  Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York
                 “The Computer in the Studio,” De Cordava Museum and the Computer Museum
                 Boston, 
                 “Transsexualism,” Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, California, curated by
                 Sabina Ott
                 “Crash,” Thread Waxing Space, New York, curated by Tom Zummer
                 “New Old Masters,” Center for the Arts, San Fransisco, California, (C) catalog
                 “Monoprint Invitational,” Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, N.Y.         
                 “Nine Months,” Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston Mass.
1993        “Malta’s Cradle: Reflections on the Abyss of Time,” Solo Press Gallery, NY, 
                  curated by     Peggy Cyphers
                “Exquisite Corpse,” Drawing Center, NY; traveled to Corcoran, Washington, D.C.,
                 Santa Monica Museum    Santa Monica CA; The Forum for Contemporary Art, St.
                 Louis Mo.; American Center, Paris, France (C.)
                “Tabu,” Four Walls, Brooklyn, New York
                 “Women’s Art Women’s Lives, Women’s Issues,” Tweed Gallery, New York
                 “Appraising the Preternatural,”Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, by Sue
                 Spaid/   MichaelAnderson
                 “Songs of Retribution,” Richard Anderson Gallery, New York
                 “Art in the Age of Information,” Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; curated by Elaine King
1992        “1992, Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina  
                 “Paper Houses,” David Beitzel Gallery, New York
                 “Group Show,”  Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York
                 “Ornament: Ho Hum All Ye Faithful,” John Post Lee Gallery, New York
                 “Allusions/Illusions,” David Beitzel Gallery, New York
                 “Group Show,” Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
                 “Abstraction/Distraction,” Richard Anderson Gallery, New York
                 “External Fantasies, Internal Realities,” Security Pacific Galleries, Los Angeles,
                 California
1990        “Group Show,” Mathew Scott Fine Art, Los Angeles, California
                 “Group Exhibition,” Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
                 “Large Drawings,” Lang and O’Hara Gallery, New York
1989        “Mystery,” New Visions Gallery, Ithaca, New York; Bard College Gallery, New 
                 York; Bevier Gallery, Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, New York
                “100 Drawings By Women,” Blum Helman Gallery, Hillwood Art Gallery, New 
                 York,   catalog
1988        “Mutations,” Anina Nosei Gallery, New York
                 “Imprimatur,” Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina & North Carolina
                  Museum of Art
                 “Double Visions,” Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York; Longwood Art Gallery, 
                  Bronx Council of the Arts, New York; curated by Fred Wilson, catalog
                 “The Inscribed Image,” Lang and O’Hara Gallery, New York; curated by Pat
                 McCoy
                 “Four Corners of Abstraction,” White Columns, New York IGI’88, New York
1987        “Drawings of the Eighties,” Carnegie Mellon University Gallery, Pittsburgh,
                 Pennsylvania
                 “Group Show,” Cone Editions, New York
1986          “Small Scale Abstractions”, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
                 “24X24,” Ruth Siegel Gallery, New York
                 “Abstraction, Abstraction”, Carnegie Mellon University Gallery, Pittsburgh & Klein
                 Gallery,   Chicago
1985         “Group Show,” Barbara Toll Gallery, New York
                 “Small Works,” Gabriel Bryers Gallery, New York
                 “Exhibit A,” Brooklyn County Courthouse, Brooklyn, New York, curated by Darra
                Keaton
                 “Abstract Issues,” Oscarson Hood Gallery, Tibor de Nagy; curated by Steven
                Henry Madoff
                 “Non-Objective World-1985,” Kamikaze, New York; curated by Stephen Westfall
                 “Update 84-84,” White Columns, New York, catalog
                 “10 Downtown,” Michael Katz Gallery, New York
                 “Nancy Davidson, Fontaine Dunn and Emily Cheng,” AIR Gallery, New York
                 “Surplus,” Exit Art, New York, catalog
                 “Emily, Anna and Ti Shan,” Asian Arts Institute, New York
                 “Forecast: Images of the Future,” Kenkeleba, New York
                 “Spiritual Climates,” Thorp Intermedia Gallery, New York
1984          “New Abstraction,” Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
                 “Abstract Drawings,” New York University, New York
1983          “Women Make History,” Edith Macy Conference Center, New York
                  “Terminal New York,” Brooklyn Army Terminal, New York
                 “Hong Kong, Tokyo, New York,” Kenkeleba, New York
                 “In Arcadia,” Lucy Strike, New York; curated by Mary Torras
1982          “Contemporary Shields,” Galerie des Refuse, New York
                 “30 New York Painters,” Hobart and William Smith College, Geneva, New York
                 “Lee Tribe, Emily Cheng and Vivian Sheihing,” SUNY Gallery, Purchase,
                 New York
1980          “New Talent,” Nardin Gallery, New York

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Priya Malhotra, "Wholeness in a Fragmented World", Asian Art News, July/Aug 2004

Impy Pilapil, "Rekindling Wonder", Philippine Star, July 3, 2004

Roberta Smith, "Jewel in the Heart", New York Times, June 25,2004

Jonathan Goodman, "Ornament as Knowledge, Ornament as Desire", Yishu Journal, December 2003

Richard Vine, "The Wild Wild East" Art in America, September, 2003

Holland Cotter, "Visual Dialogue", Reviews, New York Times, 11/01/02

Lilly Wei, "Emily Cheng" Art In America, June 2002

Edward Sozanski, The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 14, 2002

Ken Johnson, Art in Review, New York Times, 2/8/02

New Yorker, Art Galleries, 2/4/02

David Hsieh, "Exhibition of Emily Cheng", World Journal, 1/19/02

Heather Lustfeldt. “Gallery Artists of Different Styles”, Kansas City Star, 7/6/01

Roberta Fallon. “Greener Pastures,” Philadelphia Weekly, 12/27/00

D. Dominick Lombardi. “Abstracting the Meaning,” The New York Times, 9/24/00

Yeon-Shim Chung. “Emily Cheng Unity of East and West,” The Art Magazine Wolgan Misool, July 2000

Sing Tao Daily, March 3, 2000 “Kingsbough’s College Celebrates Woman’s History Month”

Christopher Millis. “Sense and Sensibilities,” arts Media, Feb. 15, 2000 Volume 4, no. 6

Channing Gray.  “Subtle Whimsy,” Providence Journal, February 3-6, 2000

Jana, Reena. “Flash Asia,” Flash Art,  May-June 1999

Spalter, Anne Morgan. "The Computer in the Visual Arts", published by Addison Wesly,  pgs. 80, 82, plate 16 1999

Aquino, Glenna. “Emily Cheng: Ways of Seeing”, Grandlife, Volume 1, Number 5, 1998

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Wei, Lilly; “Time Readings”, Asian Art News, March/April 1996

Mc Coy, Pat. “The Uses of Taxonomies in Emily Cheng’s Paintings,” New Observations,  Issue 107

Lukitsh, Joanne.“Pixel Penance,” Afterimage, January 1995

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“All Star Salute to Chinese American Cultural Pioneers,” NYC Council and Chinese  American Art Council, June 1993

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AWARDS

1996                New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship
1995                Yaddo Fellowship
1982-1983      National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

EDUCATION

1975               B.F.A. Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

1977-79         New York Studio School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture, New York,
                        New York