Ivan Cheng *1991, Australia. Lives and works in Amsterdam

CV

    2026

    • Unlicensed Goods, ydp, London group
    • Social Unrest, Matta, Milan group
    • Ivan Cheng: Casemates, Mudam, Luxembourg solo
    • MOOD RING (temor teflon), IMMATERIAL / Casa del Lago UNAM, Mexico City performance
    • Only Above, (with Jules Reidy), Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney performance

    2025

    • Group show, Diez, Amsterdam group
    • Boffins; Valiant & Cut, Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, London performance
    • Serial Surrogates (Absolutely USB), Nicoletta Fiorucci Foundation, London solo
    • Deposition 2, Gouden Leeuw 900, GDL525, Amsterdam performance
    • Red Herring (Piet's Escape Room), Huis Bosschaert, Laren performance
    • Nowadays,  Rakete, Tanzquartier, Vienna performance
    • Nowadays, Shedhalle Zürich, Zürich performance

    2024

    • NP, Monash Museum of Art, Melbourne solo
    • Under Amour, ACMI, Melbourne performance
    • My Story Gallery , High Art & Sister, Seoul group
    • Wild Tanks: Halogen Daylight Springtime, Mind Eater Festival, UKS, Oslo performance
    • Courtplay, Hartwig Art Foundation, Amsterdam group

    2023

    • Clarities, Lafayette Anticipations, Paris + Festival d’Automne performance
    • Against Sun and Dust: Anti Historia, Villa Imperiale, Pesaro group
    • Mood Apparent (standard stare), FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Nantes performance
    • Vous n'avez pas besoin d'y croire pour que ça existe, FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Nantes group
    • Ambientals/The Craft, OCTO, Marseille + Festival de Marseille solo
    • The Divine Comedy, Galerie Capitain Zweigstelle, Naples performance
    • Unschöne Museen, gta Exhibitions, Zurich group
    • Semicolons, Ellen de Bruijne PROJECTS, Amsterdam group
    • Feudal Flaw, Frascati, Amsterdam performance

    2022

    • Mega-Phone Mono-Poly, Liquid Architecture, Melbourne group
    • Renovation (Virginities 2), Le Magasin, Grenoble performance
    • La position de l’amour, Le Magasin, Grenoble group
    • Base Note, Anonymous Gallery, New York group
    • Some of It Falls from the Belt and Lands on the Walkway Beside the Conveyor, Vleeshal, Middelburg screening
    • Suns Hollow, Perdu, Amsterdam performance
    • Milieu, Edouard Montassut, Paris solo
    • Mount Analogue, Den Norske Opera & Ballett, Olso + Ultima Festival performance
    • Bloopers / Vertigo / Litigation (motorcycle diaries), Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne performance
    • Reception (standard stare), MAXXI, Rome performance
    • Wedding Day (standard stare), Centrale Fies, Dro performance
    • Licence Free Chorus Line (motorcycle diaries), Peter-Weiss-Haus, Rostock performance
    • Fiction or Fictions, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen group

    2021

    • Can I Go Out Already?, Tilde, Amsterdam group
    • sub/dominion, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles group
    • this dialogue which happened to be present in all other dialogues, Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York group
    • Gemini Redux (beeny's prayer), Arti et Amiticae, Amsterdam performance
    • Chain 5 (standard stare), Maison Populaire, Montreuil performance
    • Copernican Coining, Lungo Stura Lazio, Turin group
    • The Zany, Lateral Roma, Rome group
    • I Wanna Be Together, Atelier WG, Amsterdam group
    • The Many Faced God-dess, Maison Populaire, Montreuil group
    • PARATAXIS; (...), OoO, Vienna solo
    • Flight Mode / Corgi’s Entree, Parc de l’Eracom, Les Urbaines, Lausanne performance
    • Absolution / Toilet Signs, Kammermeir Privat, lament.tv, Berlin performance
    • ex-curses + virginities, Mother Culture, Los Angeles solo

    2020

    • Changing Room 3 (Ouija DM), Next Waves Theatre, Volksbühne, Berlin performance
    • Carriers, Art Sonje, Seoul group
    • Virtue and the City, Maison Descartes, Amsterdam group
    • Corpse Halo (honey’s affair), STRP, Eindhoven performance
    • Virginities, OCCII, Amsterdam performance

    2019

    • Clarities/Bridges, Perdu, Amsterdam performance
    • cuff without duck / smog ou soleil, (with Gianmaria Andreetta), Espace 3353, Geneva group
    • Barometer, Nacionalinė dailės galerija, Vilnius performance
    • Gemini Exit (beeny's retirement), Oude Kerk, Amsterdam performance
    • CAST (eros tunes), (with Gianmaria Andreetta), Spazio Murat, Bari performance
    • Souvenir, Spazio Murat, Bari group
    • I Could Be Easy to Swallow, Espace 3353, Geneva group
    • Finality’s an Ashtray, Het Huis, Utrecht performance
    • Chain (standard stare), Belvedere21, Vienna performance
    • K_Night, Giardini Reali della Cavallerizza, Torino group
    • caller c, Garage Noord, Amsterdam performance
    • FW: FW: Christiaan’s Bullet, Perdu, Amsterdam performance

    2018

    • Sunset Blister, MuHKA, Antwerp performance
    • Christine’s Bullet, Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem performance
    • Standard Stare, Druskininkų Jaunimo Centras, Druskininkai + Lithuanian Composer's Residency performance performance
    • yes resonance, no reflection, Kantine, Brussels group
    • funny how forever, feels now, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam group
    • Streaming Realities Steaming, Grace, Athens group
    • On Acausal Connecting Principles, MuHKA, Antwerp group
    • Biscuit Betrayal, Real Real, Campbelltown Arts Centre, Sydney performance

    2017

    • Archive Performance (phantom cigarette), Q18/Quartier am Hafen, Cologne group
    • BAD WEATHER, Cricoteka / Unsound Festival, Krakow performance
    • Copernican Coining, Broadwaters, Sydney performance
    • Alliteration Trail, Butcher's Tears, Amsterdam performance
    • Warm Ups, Estonia festival, SMC/CAC, Vilnius performance
    • Centaur Classic, Design Biennial, Saint-Étienne performance

    2016

    • Open Avond(s), De Appel, Amsterdam group
    • Ahistoric Vacuum, EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam group
    • dogged, a dawning, De Appel, Amsterdam performance
    • garderobe, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn performance
    • back-drop, Studio MG, Amsterdam, Amsterdam performance

Education

  • 2017 Sandberg Instituut, Amsterdam

  • 2013 Sydney Conservatorium of Music, Sydney & The Royal Academy of Music, London

Awards

  • 2025 The Mondrian Prize

Residencies

  • 2025 The Mondrian Initiative, Laren

  • 2022 Triangle-Asterides, Marseille

  • 2021 Liveworks 2021-2022, Centrale Fies, Dro

  • 2021 Bethy Trio, Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany

  • 2018 Lodgers, Air Antwerpen/MuHKA, Antwerp

  • 2018 Lithuanian Composer’s Residency, DAR, Druskininkai

  • 2018 Real Real, Campbelltown Arts Centre, CAC, Sydney

  • 2016 COLLABORATIONS - American Post Modern Dance / Music / Sound, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn

Publications

  • 2024 Confidences / Production, After 8 Books / MUMA

  • 2024 Confidences / Oracle, Oct0

  • 2022 Confidences / Majority, After 8 Books

  • 2021 Confidences / Baseline, TLTR Preß, Berlin

  • 2021 Homebody, Zurich Moves, Zurich

  • 2021 Where Do We Go From Now?, Circa Art, London

  • 2019 Evangelisms (houdini was beautiful), script with french translation by Gianmaria Andreetta, Espace 3353, Geneva

Selected Press

Collections

  • Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims