Ian Cheng

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American | 1984

Ian Cheng is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1984. His work is currently being shown at Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Fondation Beyeler, Basel have featured Ian Cheng's work in the past.Ian Cheng has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for e-flux in January 2025.

Current Exhibitions

Programmed Universes

Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art

Lyon | France

Mar 07,2025 - Jul 13,2025

Past Exhibitions

A Product of Time: 25 Years of TWO x TWO for AIDS and Art

The Warehouse

Dallas | Texas | USA

Sep 07,2024 - Nov 30,2024

Growing Sideways: Performing Childhood

Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University

Harlem | New York | USA

Jun 21,2024 - Sep 15,2024

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Articles

e-flux 24/01/2025

The Okayama Art Summit is an international contemporary art exhibition that focuses on conceptual art, held in Okayama City every three years.

Observer 17/01/2025

Conversations with artists have, for her, led to important moments of learning and self-rediscovery, and she believes art can help us all become more tolerant and open.

FAD Magazine 06/01/2025

There are lots of great museum exhibitions opening in 2025 鈥� We鈥檝e decided to focus on London and choose some of the most interesting exhibitions coming in 2025.

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Coverage

鈥� ..Cheng is best known for his digital simulation works that draw on his background in cognitive science and his research into artificial intelligence (AI)... 鈥�
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Carnegie Museum of Art

鈥� ..Algorithmic modeling, game design, and principles of improv inform Cheng鈥檚 work and serve as technologies to render sacred human dignities and habits as raw material for mutation... 鈥�
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Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

鈥� ..Cheng sees his simulations as a kind of neurological gym in which art becomes a means to deliberately exercise the feelings of confusion, anxiety, and cognitive dissonance that accompany moments of change... 鈥�
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Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

鈥� ..Volcano to crater lake: what was once a geological disaster zone has grown into a fertile darwinian playground... 鈥�
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Pilar Corrias Gallery

鈥� ..Using an engine for developing video games, Emissary is made up of open-ended animations with no fixed outcome or narrative鈥攁 format Cheng calls live simulation... 鈥�
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MoMA PS1