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