Carl Cheng b. 1942 in San Francisco, CA

Artforum , Vol. 63, No. 4, December 2024. Carl Cheng, "Nature Never Loses,": Best of 2024 - Natilee Harren on Carl Cheng

Since the 1960s, Carl Cheng has sometimes worked under the alias “John Doe Co.,” a sly response to his accountant’s suggestion that his art practice become a business. This coy refusal is perhaps one of several reasons why his ingenious work has yet to receive the art historical recognition it deserves.

Incorporated as John Doe Co. in the late 1960s so as to better deduct unconventional artistic materials without raising the suspicion of the IRS, Carl...

In a wide-ranging conversation with museum curator Alex Klein, the artist reflects on the impermanence of art and his ongoing “Nature Never Loses” exhibit at the Contemporary Austin.

Nature Never Loses surveys six decades of the prescient, genre-defying work of artist Carl Cheng (b. 1942, San Francisco; lives and works in Santa Monica).

The Austin Chronicle. Visual Art Review: Carl Cheng’s “Nature Never Loses”. The Contemporary's exhibit showcases the artist's fearlessness in the face of extinction

Aerospace grade aluminum, avocado seeds, surfeit cerulean plexiglass, chemistry pipettes, stumps from abandoned Christmas trees, defunct miniature TVs, Wonder Bread, and organic specimens scavenged from...

Artist 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...

What happens when populations that depend on international supply chains for basic needs are systemically cut off from food production? And when power grids fail,...

Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (Carla) | Carl Cheng at REDCAT Fabruary 1, 2023 | Holyoak, Vanessa. The post-minimalist artist/inventor Carl Cheng has, over his...

Carl 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...

Philip 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...

LOS ANGELES — There is an uncanny feeling entering Philip Martin gallery, where Human Nature, a solo exhibition featuring sculptural and wall-based work by prolific...

An integrated artwork sited at the Santa Monica Main Library at Santa Monica Boulevard and Sixth Street, “Underwater Canopy” by Carl Cheng is inspired by...

In 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...

Do you have everything you need? An alabaster carrying case, sides reinforced with grommets, tempts with an offer of such plenitude. This chipper frustum is...

In 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...

Join Carl Cheng in the studio and learn more about his historical works, and what he's working on next.

October 24, 2020 - February 21, 2021 Migros Museum of Contemporary Art Limmatstrasse 270, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland Press Release 'Following up on 'Potential Worlds 1:...

Congratulations to Carl Cheng for the acquisition of his work by the Migros Museum of Contemporary Art! His sculpture Erosion Machine No. 2 (1969) will...

Carl Cheng has recieved a grant from LACMA's Art + Technology Lab to continue his research on the 'natural phenomenon' of tar: 'The endeavor is...

Philip 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...

Friday, June 28, 2019 from 7-8pm at Hancock Park, LACMA. Carl Cheng, 2017 Art + Technology Lab grant recipient, and Dr. Emily Lindsey, Assistant Curator...

Art Basel in Basel runs from 13 to 16 June 2019, featuring 290 leading galleries from 34 countries, 19 of which join the fair for...

Artists 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,...

August 15, 2018 - November 10, 2019 Specters of Disruption is the result of an inquiry into the shared encyclopedic collections of the de Young...

Congratulations 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...

July 15, 2018 - April 1, 2019 Art of the Americas Building, Level 2 The quest for perfect 3D representation drives innovation, stimulates creative expression,...

March 28 - May 31, 2018 Including artists Ashley Bickerton, Dora Budor, Nina Canell, Oscar Chan Yik Long, Chen Zhou, Carl F. Cheng, Dumb Type,...

In 1967, the year he graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles, Carl Cheng registered the trade name John Doe Co. and, soon after,...

When Andy Warhol called his studio the Factory in 1962, he put an end to the romantic idea that artists labored alone in garrets where...

Press Release: Beginning 26 June, Hauser & Wirth will present ‘The Photographic Object, 1970’, an ambitious historical exhibition exploring the legacy of Peter Bunnell’s landmark...

July 4, 2013 - September 29, 2013 Andre Haluska, Bea Nettles, Carl Cheng, Charles Roitz, Dale Quarterman, Darryl Curran, Ellen Brooks, Jack Dale, James Pennuto,...

From '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...

I can thank the late James Doolin for introducing me to Carl Cheng. Along with Carl, he also introduced me to Michael McMillen . The...

Rarely 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...

Four 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...

Capp 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...

Carl Cheng is best known for his installations, like “Black Lake” at ARCO last summer: a pool with a black bottom, a white grid over...

A visit to Santa Monica Pier is as much a matter of sound as it is of the sights – from the bright carousel organ...

The 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....

Installation pieces by Carl Cheng and Michael McMillan on view at Cal Tech present a provocative contrast of sensibilities. Cheng’s works – several executed in...

Within 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...