Ian Cheng

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American | 1984

Ian Cheng is an American Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1984. 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 Art Viewer in October 2025.

Current Exhibitions

News From The Near Future. 30 Years Of Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo

Turin | Italy

28 Oct, 2025 - 08 Mar, 2026

Past Exhibitions

Growing Sideways: Performing Childhood

Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University

Harlem | New York | USA

21 Jun, 2024 - 15 Sep, 2024

Ian Cheng: Life After BOB

The Shed

Chelsea | New York | USA

10 Sep, 2021 - 19 Dec, 2021

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Articles

鈥淣ews from the Near Future鈥� at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo and Museo Nazionale dell鈥橝utomobile, Turin

MOUSSE Magazine 31 Oct, 2025

A major group show celebrating thirty years of commitment to promoting contemporary art, curated by Bernardo Follini and Eugenio Re Rebaudengo.

I Am Only What You Made Me at Galeria Skala, Pozna艅

Art Viewer 07 Oct, 2025

Ian Cheng born 1984, Los Angeles is an artist based in New York known for 鈥渓ive simulations鈥� and AI-driven narrative worlds that evolve in real time, drawing from video game design and cognitive science.

Okayama Art Summit 2025: The Parks of Aomame

e-flux 24 Jan, 2025

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

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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