Cheang Shu Lea

Born in Taiwan in 1954, Cheang Shu Lea has lived and worked in the United States, Japan, Holland, the United Kingdom and France. Her practice combines artistic concerns with hot-button social issues, defined by her nomadic and information-era existence. She has been a member of the alternative media collective Paper Tiger Television since 1982 and produced public-access programs for the group addressing racism in the media. As an artist, she has worked in a variety of mediums—film, video, installation, web spaces—her output as varied as cyberspace itself.

As a net art pioneer, her BRANDON (1998-1999) was the first web art commissioned and collected by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Cheang represented Taiwan at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019.

Cheang Shu-Lea. Photo by TFAM. Courtesy the artist and Chi-Wen Gallery