Single Channel Video
7 minutes 37 seconds
2014
“Parental Guidance” is a re-enactment of my parents as they discuss the meaning of art as they see it. A disconnect between their conversations and the limited movement of the mouths only further emphasizes the communication breakdown from an artistic and cultural standpoint.

Other Works

  1. 'Neverending Sunset', 2025, 3D printed sculpture in Polyethylene Terephthalate, looping video by Zhiwan CheungNeverending Sunset
  2. 'The Cadmium Yellow Daffodils', 2024, Lenticular Print by Zhiwan CheungThe promised land lacked the will to gather them into one piece
  3. 'Fade To Fragments', 2024, 3D Printed in Polyethylene Terephthalate, looping video by Zhiwan CheungFade To Fragments
  4. 'Inescapable Togetherness', 2024, 3D Printed in Polyethylene Terephthalate, PVC by Zhiwan CheungInescapable Togetherness
  5. 'Conversations Beneath the Soil', 2024, 3D Printed in Polyethylene Terephthalate, PVC by Zhiwan CheungConversations Beneath the Soil
  6. 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
  7. 'Kinship', 2024, Lenticular Print by Zhiwan CheungKinship
  8. 'Return To Our Liquid State', 2024, Single-channel Video by Zhiwan CheungReturn To Our Liquid State
  9. 'Dong Xuan', 2024, Single-channel Video by Zhiwan CheungDong Xuan
  10. '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
  11. 'upon their innocent cheeks and lips', 2024, Lenticular Print by Zhiwan Cheungupon their innocent cheeks and lips
  12. 'The cadmium yellow daffodils', 2024, Lenticular Print by Zhiwan CheungThe cadmium yellow daffodils
  13. In-game still from 'A Matter Of Orientation', 2023, VR installation by Zhiwan CheungA Matter of Orientation
  14. 'Doppelgänger', 2021, photographic lightbox by Zhiwan CheungDoppelgänger
  15. 'The Solar Eclipse of a Lifetime', 2021, photographic lightbox by Zhiwan CheungThe Solar Eclipse of a Lifetime
  16. 'The Promised Land', 2021, photographic lightbox by Zhiwan CheungThe Promised Land
  17. Installation view of 'Heaven's Children', 2021, photographic lightbox by Zhiwan Cheung, shown in Xuyuhuanbian, Zhuhai in 2021Heaven’s Children
  18. Installation view from 'What Kind of Ancestors Will We Become?', 2021. Video Installation by Zhiwan Cheung.What Kind of Ancestors Will We Become?
  19. Martha
  20. Video still from 'Survivors of a Lying Species', 2019, Single-channel Video by Zhiwan CheungSurvivors of a Lying Species
  21. Video still from 'Everything Is A Decaying Lump of Now,' 2019, Single-channel Video by Zhiwan CheungEverything Is A Decaying Lump of Now
  22. Video still from 'Goose and Crocodile', 2019, six-channel video installation by Zhiwan CheungGoose and Crocodile
  23. Video still from 'Disoriental Flavors (after Edward Said)', 2019, Single-channel Video by Zhiwan CheungDisoriental Flavors (after Edward Said)
  24. Video still from 'The Immortal Gold Rabbit', 2018, Single-channel Video by Zhiwan CheungThe Immortal Gold Rabbit
  25. Welcome To Jungle Florida
  26. Video still from 'Colorbound', 2017, Two-channel Video Installation by Zhiwan CheungColorbound
  27. Detail of 'Birdcage', 2017 mixed media sculpture by Zhiwan CheungBirdcage
  28. Detail of 'Colonial White', 2017 mixed media sculpture by Zhiwan CheungColonial White
  29. Detail of 'China White', 2017 mixed media sculpture by Zhiwan CheungParental Janus
  30. Installation view of 'Hanging Fruit' (2016), site-specific work at the Andy Warhol Museum’s Exposure series, PittsburghHanging Fruit
  31. 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
  32. Reading the Rainbow
  33. Installation view of 'Good Vibrations', 2015, a motel room intervention using surface transducers to make every object vibrateGood Vibrations
  34. '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
  35. 'Vibrating Pink Egg', 2015, sculptural installation made of Styrofoam, joint compound, surface transducers, wire tubing, and pink eggshell paint by Zhiwan CheungVibrating Pink Egg
  36. 'Skinny Dipping', 2015, sculptural installation made of Styrofoam, joint compound, wheels, “Sun Ray” Behr eggshell paint by Zhiwan CheungSkinny Dipping
  37. 'White Lie', 2015, sculptural installation made of Styrofoam, joint compound, surface transducers, wire tubing, and custom Sherwin-Williams eggshell paint by Zhiwan CheungWhite Lie
  38. Video still from 'Who's Afraid of Chinatown Orange?', 2014, single-channel video by Zhiwan CheungWho’s Afraid of Chinatown Orange?
  39. Parental Guidance
  40. 'Movable Wave', 2014, a sculptural piece made of wood, rope, Styrofoam, joint compound, and wheels by Zhiwan CheungMovable Wave
  41. 'Portal', 2014, sculpture constructed from steel, burlap, plaster, joint compound, and mounted on a dolly by Zhiwan CheungPortal
  42. '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
  43. 'Impermanent Infinity', 2014,, a performative land work created by walking through tall grass in Nebraska until a path emerged by Zhiwan CheungImpermanent Infinity
  44. 'Expanded Field', 2014, minimalist sculpture made of steel by Zhiwan CheungExpanded Field
  45. 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
  46. '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
  47. Video still from 'Oedipal Art Wrestling', 2014, Three-channel video installation by Zhiwan Cheung.Oedipal Art Wrestling
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