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Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses
The Contemporary Austin Fall 2024Alex Klein [Head Curator and Director of Curatorial Affairs at The Contemporary Austin] is working closely with artist Carl Cheng to organize Nature Never Loses,...Read more -
Carl Cheng’s “Nature Never Loses” | Visual Art Review
The Austin Chronicle September 13, 2024The Austin Chronicle. Visual Art Review: Carl Cheng’s “Nature Never Loses”. The Contemporary's exhibit showcases the artist's fearlessness in the face of extinctionRead more -
Carl Cheng | A Ceaseless Encounter With Nature, An Enduring Vision
Flaunt Magazine September 1, 2024Who decides the everlasting artistic canon? Is it only traditional works shown in traditional venues, or can it recognize the innovative outsiders? It’s a question...Read more -
Carl Cheng: 'I'm not a guy that wants to be a celebrity'
Financial Times August 27, 2024Artist Carl Cheng: ‘I’m not a guy that wants to be a celebrity’ His first retrospective, at the age of 82, showcases work which satirises...Read more -
Carl Cheng: From the Ground Up: Nurturing Diversity in Hostile Environments
Armory Center for the Arts Aug 9, 2024 - Feb 23, 2025What happens when populations that depend on international supply chains for basic needs are systemically cut off from food production? And when power grids fail,...Read more -
Carla: Carl Cheng at REDCAT
Carla February 1, 2023Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla) | Carl Cheng at REDCAT Fabruary 1, 2023 | Holyoak, Vanessa. The post-minimalist artist/inventor Carl Cheng has, over his...Read more -
Carl Cheng at REDCAT
REDCAT October 22, 2022Carl Cheng Material Behavior REDCAT OCT 22-FEB 26, 2023 Throughout his nearly six-decade career, Carl Cheng’s artistic practice has been a means of exploring the...Read more -
Artforum: MUST SEE, Carl Cheng, "Human Nature"
Artforum May 11, 2022Philip Martin Gallery is pleased to present, “Human Nature,” an exhibition of works (1970 to present) by Los Angeles-based artist Carl Cheng (b. 1942). Th...Read more -
The Experimental Laboratory of Artist-Inventor Carl Cheng
Hyperallergic April 26, 2022LOS ANGELES — There is an uncanny feeling entering Philip Martin gallery, where Human Nature, a solo exhibition featuring sculptural and wall-based work by prolific...Read more -
Carl Cheng: Underwater Canopy
Public Art Archive August 27, 2021An integrated artwork sited at the Santa Monica Main Library at Santa Monica Boulevard and Sixth Street, “Underwater Canopy” by Carl Cheng is inspired by...Read more -
Research and Development: Carl Cheng
Masters, HG. ArtAsiaPacific July 5, 2021In 1969, the John Doe Co. of Santa Monica, California, released the first in its line of “nature products”: Erosion Machine, a yellow, hi-tech-looking, microwave-size...Read more -
Art, Technology, Crisis: The Work of Carl Cheng
Damman, Catherine. Panorama Journal of the Association of Historians of American Art June 15, 2021Do you have everything you need? An alabaster carrying case, sides reinforced with grommets, tempts with an offer of such plenitude. This chipper frustum is...Read more -
8-bridges to debut online exhibition celebrating Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
Bravo, Tony. Datebook, San Francisco Chronicle April 26, 2021In honor of Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, Bay Area art website 8-bridges will debut a new online exhibition dedicated to artists of the Asian...Read more -
In Conversation with Carl Cheng
July 15, 2020Join Carl Cheng in the studio and learn more about his historical works, and what he's working on next.Read more -
Carl Cheng featured in "Potential Worlds 2: Eco-Fictions" at Migros Museum of Contemporary Art
Zürich, Switzerland June 13, 2020October 24, 2020 - February 21, 2021 Migros Museum of Contemporary Art Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland Press Release 'Following up on 'Potential Worlds 1:...Read more -
The Migros Museum of Contemporary Art acquires work by Carl Cheng
Zürich, Switzerland February 4, 2020Congratulations to Carl Cheng for the acquisition of his work by the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art! His sculpture Erosion Machine No. 2 (1969) will...Read more -
Carl Cheng receives Art + Technology Lab Grant from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
LACMALos Angeles, CA February 4, 2020Carl Cheng has recieved a grant from LACMA's Art + Technology Lab to continue his research on the 'natural phenomenon' of tar: 'The endeavor is...Read more -
Carl Cheng: John Doe Company invites you to an exhibition of products 1966-1981
Art BaselBasel, Switzerland June 13, 2019Philip Martin Gallery is delighted to present a solo exhibition of works by Los Angeles-based artist Carl Cheng (b. 1942). Carl Cheng takes a material...Read more -
Art + Tech: Walking Tour of La Brea Tar Pits and Carl Cheng's Tar Pool Project
Los Angeles County Museum of ArtLos Angeles, CA June 11, 2019Friday, June 28, 2019 from 7-8pm at Hancock Park, LACMA. Carl Cheng, 2017 Art + Technology Lab grant recipient, and Dr. Emily Lindsey, Assistant Curator...Read more -
Preview highlights from Asia at Art Basel in Basel 2019
Ardia, C.A. Xuân Mai. Art Spectacle Asia June 10, 2019Art Basel in Basel runs from 13 to 16 June 2019, featuring 290 leading galleries from 34 countries, 19 of which join the fair for...Read more -
From Germaine Richier to Kris Lemsalu: innovative sculptors making their mark at Art Basel in Basel
Art Basel May 4, 2019Artists often address the flaws and strengths of humanity head-on. These six sculptors tackle it through sculptural techniques and strategies that overlap in surprising ways,...Read more -
Carl Cheng: Specters of Disruption at M. H. de Young Memorial Museum
M. H. de Young Memorial MuseumSan Francisco, CA August 15, 2018August 15, 2018 - November 10, 2019 Specters of Disruption is the result of an inquiry into the shared encyclopedic collections of the de Young...Read more -
The de Young Museum acquires work by Carl Cheng
M.H. de Young Memorial MuseumSan Francisco, CA August 15, 2018Congratulations to Carl Cheng for the acquisition of his work by the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum! His sculpture 'Erosion Machine No. 3' (1969) will...Read more -
Carl Cheng in 3D: Double Vision at Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Los Angeles County Museum of ArtLos Angeles, CA July 15, 2018July 15, 2018 - April 1, 2019 Art of the Americas Building, Level 2 The quest for perfect 3D representation drives innovation, stimulates creative expression,...Read more -
Carl Cheng in "Emerald City" at K11 Art Foundation
K11 Art FoundationHong Kong, China March 28, 2018March 28 - May 31, 2018 Including artists Ashley Bickerton, Dora Budor, Nina Canell, Oscar Chan Yik Long, Chen Zhou, Carl F. Cheng, Dumb Type,...Read more -
Carl Cheng
Griffin, Jonathan. Frieze August 1, 2016In 1967, the year he graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, Carl Cheng registered the trade name John Doe Co. and, soon after,...Read more -
L.A. artist Carl Cheng's darkly amusing supply kits for the apocalypse
Pagel, David. Los Angeles Times July 5, 2016When Andy Warhol called his studio the Factory in 1962, he put an end to the romantic idea that artists labored alone in garrets where...Read more -
The Photographic Object, 1970 at Hauser & Wirth, New York
June 26 – July 25, 2014Hauser & Wirth, New York June 26, 2014Press Release: Beginning 26 June, Hauser & Wirth will present ‘The Photographic Object, 1970’, an ambitious historical exhibition exploring the legacy of Peter Bunnell’s landmark...Read more -
The Photographic Object 1970 at Le Consortium Museum
Le Consortium MuseumDijon, France July 4, 2013July 4, 2013 - September 29, 2013 Andre Haluska, Bea Nettles, Carl Cheng, Charles Roitz, Dale Quarterman, Darryl Curran, Ellen Brooks, Jack Dale, James Pennuto,...Read more -
Interview with Carl Cheng
Statzer, Mary. The Photographic Object May 10, 2012From 'The Photographic Object, 1970' Oakland: University of California Press, 2016, p. 134-140. MS: Thank you for agreeing to talk with me about Photography into...Read more -
A Conversation with Carl Cheng: The John Doe Company
Whittaker, Richard. works & conversations May 2, 2002I can thank the late James Doolin for introducing me to Carl Cheng. Along with Carl, he also introduced me to Michael McMillen . The...Read more -
Carl Cheng
Johnstone, Mark. July 1, 2000Rarely are the essential qualities of Cheng’s work incisively, even adequately, addressed in the writings about it. The most obvious qualities are those which are...Read more -
Installations Give the Senses a Workout
Wilson, William. Los Angeles Times November 18, 1998Four projects at the Santa Monica Museum of Art prove that late-20th century aesthetics really are a modern update of the sensational Baroque. Since gallery-size...Read more -
Carl Cheng at Capp Street Project
Morris, Gay. Art in America June 1, 1990Capp Street Project is one of the Bay Area’s most adventuresome spaces for site-related art installations. Last summer, for example, Ann Hamilton spread honey over...Read more -
Pick of the Week
Norklun, Kathi. LA Weekly March 4, 1983Carl Cheng is best known for his installations, like “Black Lake” at ARCO last summer: a pool with a black bottom, a white grid over...Read more -
Artist brings vision to Santa Monica Pier
Scott, Joanie. Evening Outlook September 1, 1978A visit to Santa Monica Pier is as much a matter of sound as it is of the sights – from the bright carousel organ...Read more -
Gargantuan intrusion and electronic mah-jongg
Wortz, Melinda. Art News February 1, 1976The Newport Harbor Art Museum’s exhibition of four sound installations included one piece each by Michael McMillan, the John Doe Co., Michael Brewster and Dr....Read more -
The Impact of Context
Wortz, Melinda. Artweek May 31, 1975Installation pieces by Carl Cheng and Michael McMillan on view at Cal Tech present a provocative contrast of sensibilities. Cheng’s works – several executed in...Read more -
Review: Carl Cheng
A. Danieli, Fidel. Artforum March 1, 1968Within terms of recent widespread interest in box constructions, Cheng’s objects could be reasonably accepted as sculpture. To support this claim he includes vacuum-formed volumes...Read more