'Colonial White', 2017 mixed media sculpture by Zhiwan Cheung
Colonial White, 2017. Mixed media sculpture.
Detail of 'Colonial White', 2017 mixed media sculpture by Zhiwan Cheung
Detail from Colonial White, 2017. Mixed media sculpture.
Detail of 'Colonial White', 2017 mixed media sculpture by Zhiwan Cheung
Detail from Colonial White, 2017. Mixed media sculpture.
Colonial White Paint, Steel, Silicon, Acrylic
62 x 12 x 12 in (157 x 30 x 30 cm)
2017

Other Works

  1. 'Fade To Fragments', 2024, 3D Printed in Polyethylene Terephthalate, looping video by Zhiwan CheungFade To Fragments
  2. 'Inescapable Togetherness', 2024, 3D Printed in Polyethylene Terephthalate, PVC by Zhiwan CheungInescapable Togetherness
  3. 'Conversations Beneath the Soil', 2024, 3D Printed in Polyethylene Terephthalate, PVC by Zhiwan CheungConversations Beneath the Soil
  4. A high-angle digital screenshot from Unreal Engine showing a full 3D scene, including a Gaussian splat rendering of a school building surrounded by virtual terrain. The view captures the spatial relationship between elements, evoking a digitally mediated reconstruction of personal and architectural memory.18th Wenyuan Street
  5. 'Kinship', 2024, Lenticular Print by Zhiwan CheungKinship
  6. 'Return To Our Liquid State', 2024, Single-channel Video by Zhiwan CheungReturn To Our Liquid State
  7. 'Dong Xuan', 2024, Single-channel Video by Zhiwan CheungDong Xuan
  8. 'So long as the sunset does not reveal its scarlet nature', 2024, Lenticular Print by Zhiwan CheungSo long as the sunset does not reveal its scarlet nature
  9. 'upon their innocent cheeks and lips', 2024, Lenticular Print by Zhiwan Cheungupon their innocent cheeks and lips
  10. 'The cadmium yellow daffodils', 2024, Lenticular Print by Zhiwan CheungThe cadmium yellow daffodils
  11. In-game still from 'A Matter Of Orientation', 2023, VR installation by Zhiwan CheungA Matter of Orientation
  12. 'Doppelgänger', 2021, photographic lightbox by Zhiwan CheungDoppelgänger
  13. 'The Solar Eclipse of a Lifetime', 2021, photographic lightbox by Zhiwan CheungThe Solar Eclipse of a Lifetime
  14. 'The Promised Land', 2021, photographic lightbox by Zhiwan CheungThe Promised Land
  15. Installation view of 'Heaven's Children', 2021, photographic lightbox by Zhiwan Cheung, shown in Xuyuhuanbian, Zhuhai in 2021Heaven’s Children
  16. Installation view from 'What Kind of Ancestors Will We Become?', 2021. Video Installation by Zhiwan Cheung.What Kind of Ancestors Will We Become?
  17. Martha
  18. Video still from 'Survivors of a Lying Species', 2019, Single-channel Video by Zhiwan CheungSurvivors of a Lying Species
  19. Video still from 'Everything Is A Decaying Lump of Now,' 2019, Single-channel Video by Zhiwan CheungEverything Is A Decaying Lump of Now
  20. Video still from 'Goose and Crocodile', 2019, six-channel video installation by Zhiwan CheungGoose and Crocodile
  21. Video still from 'Disoriental Flavors (after Edward Said)', 2019, Single-channel Video by Zhiwan CheungDisoriental Flavors (after Edward Said)
  22. Video still from 'The Immortal Gold Rabbit', 2018, Single-channel Video by Zhiwan CheungThe Immortal Gold Rabbit
  23. Welcome To Jungle Florida
  24. Video still from 'Colorbound', 2017, Two-channel Video Installation by Zhiwan CheungColorbound
  25. Detail of 'Birdcage', 2017 mixed media sculpture by Zhiwan CheungBirdcage
  26. Detail of 'Colonial White', 2017 mixed media sculpture by Zhiwan CheungColonial White
  27. Detail of 'China White', 2017 mixed media sculpture by Zhiwan CheungChina White
  28. Installation view of 'Hanging Fruit' (2016), site-specific work at the Andy Warhol Museum’s Exposure series, PittsburghHanging Fruit
  29. Installation view from 'The Impossibility of Home', 2019, two-channel video installation by Zhiwan Cheung, shown at the Miller Gallery, Pittsburgh in 2016The Impossibility of Home
  30. Reading the Rainbow
  31. Installation view of 'Good Vibrations', 2015, a motel room intervention using surface transducers to make every object vibrateGood Vibrations
  32. 'Intergalactic Immigration Office', 2015, a collaborative site-specific installation by Zhiwan Cheung, Daniel Pillis, Zach Rispoli, and Leah Wulfman that dispensing mock galactic citizenship at Shenley PlazaIntergalactic Immigration Office
  33. 'Vibrating Pink Egg', 2015, sculptural installation made of Styrofoam, joint compound, surface transducers, wire tubing, and pink eggshell paint by Zhiwan CheungVibrating Pink Egg
  34. 'Skinny Dipping', 2015, sculptural installation made of Styrofoam, joint compound, wheels, “Sun Ray” Behr eggshell paint by Zhiwan CheungSkinny Dipping
  35. 'White Lie', 2015, sculptural installation made of Styrofoam, joint compound, surface transducers, wire tubing, and custom Sherwin-Williams eggshell paint by Zhiwan CheungWhite Lie
  36. Video still from 'Who's Afraid of Chinatown Orange?', 2014, single-channel video by Zhiwan CheungWho’s Afraid of Chinatown Orange?
  37. Parental Guidance
  38. 'Movable Wave', 2014, a sculptural piece made of wood, rope, Styrofoam, joint compound, and wheels by Zhiwan CheungMovable Wave
  39. 'Portal', 2014, sculpture constructed from steel, burlap, plaster, joint compound, and mounted on a dolly by Zhiwan CheungPortal
  40. 'Augmented Door', 2014, site-specific sculpture featuring a car door and steel integrated into a natural landscape, with equal emphasis on the installation and its photographic documentation by Zhiwan CheungAugmented Door
  41. 'Impermanent Infinity', 2014,, a performative land work created by walking through tall grass in Nebraska until a path emerged by Zhiwan CheungImpermanent Infinity
  42. 'Expanded Field', 2014, minimalist sculpture made of steel by Zhiwan CheungExpanded Field
  43. Video still from 'People Take Warning: Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs', 2014, single channel video by Zhiwan Cheung and Kyle PeetsPeople Take Warning: Murder Ballads & Disaster Songs
  44. 'Day of the Painter', 2014, group exhibition curated to explore how non-painters interpret painting today, shown during Pittsburgh’s Unblurred: First Friday initiative, curated by Zhiwan CheungDay of the Painter
  45. Video still from 'Oedipal Art Wrestling', 2014, Three-channel video installation by Zhiwan Cheung.Oedipal Art Wrestling

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