Resume
Public Art Commissions
| 2017 | Laminated glass windscreens, concrete paving and crosswalk designs for Hawthorne & 8th Street and Sunnyside Stops, Charlotte, NC |
| 2016 | Ceramic and Mosaic Tile Mural - Boise Valley Regional Transit Downtown Bus Terminal |
| 2016 | Printed Vinyl-covered traffic boxes, Odessa, TX |
| 2015 | Vinyl canopies for Slauson Bus Station, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2013 | Mosaic mural for Jacksonville International Airport, Jacksonville, FL |
| 2013 | Ceramic tile mural for Lambert-St. Louis International Airport MetroLink Station, St. Louis, MO |
| 2012 | Laminated glass windscreens for 25th Avenue Subway Station, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2009 | Hand-painted ceramic tile mural for Howard Street El Station, Chicago, IL |
| 2007 | Faceted glass windscreens for Cleveland Street Subway Station, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2004 | Mosaic column for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Seattle, WA |
| 2002 | Oil-painted panels for P.S. 58, The School of Heroes, Maspeth, NY |
Selected Grants & Fellowships
| 2017 | Fulbright Lecture Fellowship, Art Department, Renmin University of China, Beijing, China |
| 2011 | Studio Artist Space Program, PS 122 Studios, New York, NY |
| 2008 | Fulbright Senior Lecture/Research grant to Brazil, Visiting Professor, Graduate Painting Program, São Paulo University, S.P., Brazil |
| 2005 | Contemplative Practice Fellowship, the Center for Contemplative Mind in Society |
| 1996 | New York Foundation for the Arts, Painting Fellowship |
| 1994 | Arts International, Travel grant to China |
| 1990 | New York Foundation for the Arts, Painting Fellowship |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2019 | Amy Cheng: New Directions, Carter Burden Covello Center, New York, NY |
| 2015 | Amy Cheng: Breathing Lessons, Burke Gallery, Plattsburgh State Art Museum, Plattsburgh, NY |
| 2014 | Amy Cheng: Irrational Exuberance, Tower Fine Art Gallery, State University of New York at Brockport, Brockport, NY |
| 2010 | Amy Cheng: Evidence of Things Unseen, Turchin Center for Visual Art, Boone, NC |
| 2005 | Amy Cheng: Paintings, Moreau Gallery at St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, IN |
| 2001 | Amy Cheng: Paintings, Art & Soul Gallery, Boulder, CO |
| 1998 | Present Perfect, Gallery 456, New York, NY |
| 1997 | I Shock Myself: Recent Work by Amy Cheng, Penny Liebman Contemporary Art, New York, NY |
| 1992 | The Barbarians Are Coming, C&A Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1991 | Amy Cheng: Paintings, The Harrison Gallery, Boca Raton, FL |
| Amy Cheng: Recent Work, Gallery at Newark Academy, Livingston, NJ | |
| The Journey Home, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA | |
| Unified Field Theory, Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2019 | Making Art Work, P.S. 109 El Barrio's ArtSpace, New York, NY |
| 2017 | Flora Fantastica!, Wave Hill, The Bronx, NY |
| Artists as Innovators, Muroff Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, SUNY Ulster, Stone Ridge, NY | |
| Meditations in Color: Richard Carter & Amy Cheng, Republic Plaza, 1801 California Lobby, Denver, CO | |
| Intimately Unfamiliar, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz | |
| 2016 | Mandalas: Constructed and Deconstructed: Richard Carter and Amy Cheng,William Havu Gallery, Denver, CO |
| 2015 | Color, Mary Tomás Gallery, Dallas, TX |
| Geometric Repetition, Mary Tomás Gallery, Dallas, TX | |
| 4th Annual Juried International Contemporary Islamic Art, LuminArté Gallery, Dallas, TX | |
| 2014 | The Reason for Beauty, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA |
| Time and Again, Central Booking, New York, NY | |
| CHROMA: Gabe Brown, Amy Cheng, Laura Moriarty, Hudson Beach Gallery, Beacon, NY | |
| 2014 Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region,, curated by Stephen Westfall, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY | |
| 2013 | Making Their Mark: Eight Artists from the Stone Canoe, Lubin House Gallery, New York, NY |
| Fields of Vision: Work by SUNY New Paltz Art Department Faculty, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY | |
| 2013 Artists of the Mohawk/Hudson Region, curated by Dan Cameron, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY | |
| 2012 | Every Picture Tells a Story: Amy Cheng, Xin Song, Muriel Sparks, Amy Simon Fine Art, Wesport, CT |
| Enter the Dragon: Amy Cheng and Mimi Chen TIng, Sotheby’s International Realty, Elisa Contemporary Art, Riverdale, NY | |
| Across the Divide, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX | |
| 2011 | Exercises in Unnecessary Beauty, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY |
| GE Asian Art Exhibition, General Electric Headquarters, Fairfield, CT | |
| Mohawk Hudson Regional Invitational 2011: Amy Cheng, Katie DeGroot and Douglas Dunning, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY | |
| Across the Divide, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, Whitewater, WI | |
| Orange, Elisa Contemporary Art, The Bronx, NY | |
| 2010 | I Am the Cosmos, curated by Sara Henry, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ |
| 2010 Artist of the Mohawk Hudson Region (curated by Charles Desmarais), The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY | |
| 2009 | Americaura, Centre Cultural, Brussels, Belgium. |
| 2009 Winter Artists-in-Residence, McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC | |
| 2008 | Americaura, National Library of Cameroon, Yaounde, Cameroon. |
| Midnight Full of Stars, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ (catalog) | |
| Facing East, Facing West, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA (catalog) | |
| On Faith: Saviors, Prophets, and Magic, Rhonda Schaller Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Across the Divide, Pei Ling Chang Gallery of the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA | |
| Summer Rotation, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT | |
| 2007 | Americaura, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, Amherst, MA |
| 2006 | Contemporary Chinese Visions, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT |
| Waterfall, Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH | |
| Simultaneous Realities, Washington and Jefferson College, Olin Fine Arts Center Gallery, Washington, PA | |
| Across the Divide, Reed Whipple Cultural Center Gallery, Las Vegas, NV | |
| 2005 | Brave New Worlds, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Program, LIC, NY (catalog) |
| Wax: Encaustic Techniques in Contemporary Art, The Brush Art Gallery, Lowell, MA | |
| 2004 | Abstract, Concepto Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| Alcyone, Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Talking Hands, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2003 | Accumulative Efforts, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2002 | Centering: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of Sacred, Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA |
| 2001 | Over and Over: Patters and Layers, Marist College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY |
| Dreaming: Prophesies, Speculations, and Good Guesses, Augusta Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA | |
| 2000 | Small Pleasures in Idleness, Gallery 456, New York, NY |
| Open Your Art and Soul, Art & Soul Gallery, Boulder, CO | |
| 1999 | Eat Art, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY |
| A Prismatic Mirror, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY, (catalog) | |
| 1998 | Stony Brook Selections From Coast to Coast, [curated by Marysol Nieves, The Bronx Museum of the Arts], Stony Brook Union Gallery, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY |
| 1997 | Parallel Universes, [curated by Amy Cheng], Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY |
| The Sense of Touch: An Exhibition of Women Printmakers, Ceres Gallery, NY, NY | |
| 1997 Art Exchange, Penny Liebman Contemporary Art, New York, NY | |
| 1996 | Repetition Compulsion, [curated by Amy Cheng], Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY |
| Spririt, Dream and Form, Reggio Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 1994 | Summer, Cooper-Seeman Gallery, New York, NY |
| Art in Embassies Program, Oslo, Norway | |
| 1992 | Beauty, Now You See It, Colorstone Gallery, New York, NY |
| Pressowrk: The Art of Women Printmakers, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; traveling to: Atlanta College of Art, Woodruff Arts Center. Atlanta, GA; Elvehjem Museum of Art, Univ. of Wisconsin, Madison, WI | |
| 1991 | Close Scrutiny, Art in General, New York, NY |
| The First Decade, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, NY, (catalog) | |
| International Art Exhibition 1991, International Art Fair, Kanazawa College of Art, Kanazawa, Japan, (catalogue) | |
| 1990 | Radiant Fruit: Iconic Still Life, Trabia Gallery, New York, NY |
| On Wood, Richard Iri Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 1989 | Past Tense: Contemporary American Landscapists Look Backward, Wilson Art Center, Rochester, NY, (reviewed) |
| 1987 | Singular Visions, Art in General, New York, NY, (reviewed) |
| 11 Painters, Parker/Smalley Gallery, New York, NY |
Selected Corporate and Public Collections
| The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY | |
| Banayn Street/Gap Primera, Lake Mary, FL | |
| Chevron Corporation | |
| Cincinnati Children's Hospital, Cincinnati, OH | |
| Hewlett-Packard, San Francisco, CA | |
| King County Public Art Collection, State of Washington | |
| Lang Communications, New York, NY | |
| New York University Langone Medical Center | |
| Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Philadelphia, PA | |
| Sam Houston University, Huntsville, TX | |
| Scholastic Productions, New York, NY | |
| Sheraton Hotels, Brussels, Belgium | |
| United States State Department, U.S. Embassy, Kazakhstan | |
| University Hospital, San Antonio, TX | |
| Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Collegeville, PA | |
| Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT |
Artist Residencies
| 2011 | Constance Saltonstall Foundation, Ithaca, NY |
| 2011 | Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA |
| 2009 | McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC, Artist-in-Residence (winter term) |
| 2009 | Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL |
| 2009 | Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA |
| 2007 | Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL |
| 2007 | Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA |
| 2006 | Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL |
| 2006 | Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA |
| 2005 | Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT |
| 1999 | Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain |
| 1997 | The Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY |
| 1992 | MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH |
| 1990 | Yaddo Corporation, Saratoga Springs, NY |
| 1989 | MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH |
Teaching
| 1997 to present | State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY, Art Department, Professor |
| 2004 (Spr.) | Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, co-teach interdisciplinary course titled “The Creative Process” with Patricia Wallace, Vassar English Dept. professor, under the auspices of the Carolyn Grant Fdn |
| 1990-97 | Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Art Department, Assistant Professor - Studio Art |
| 1994 | Vermont College, Montpelier, VT, MFA in Visual Arts Program, Artist Advisor |
| 1989-90 | Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Visual Arts Program, Lecturer |
| 1985-86 | Hunter College, City University of New York, NY, Art Department, Lecturer |
Panels & Juries
| 2012 | Visual Arts Editor for the Stone Canoe, Vol. 7, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY |
| 2011 | Panelist juror, Fulbright Painting Applicants, Institute for International Education |
| 2010 | Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts for Transit Program juror for the Metro North Tarrytown Station, Tarrytown, New York |
| 2010 | Panelist juror, Fulbright Painting Applicants, Institute for International Education |
| 2004 | New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program juror for Department of Transportation project located in the Sunrise section of Queens, New York |
| 2003 | Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Maryland State Arts Council Painting Fellowship jury. Panel hosted by the Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Baltimore, MD |
| 2002 | The Millay Art Colony, Austerlitz, NY, juror for residency applicants |
| 2000 | Conversation hosted by The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, led by Carol Becker and Michael Brenson, funded by The Rockefeller Foundation, to discuss the establishing of a center for the study of art and artists in society. |
| 1999 | Ooh Ahh... Oh!, Arts Now 1999, co-director of art conference sponsored by the The School of Fine and Performing Arts, State University of New York at New Paltz on the topic of art and audience |
| 1997-99 | Working Group on the Arts and Humanities, Institute for Innovation in Social Policy, Fordham Graduate Center, sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation |
Education
| 1982 | M.F.A. Painting, Hunter College, City University of New York |
| 1978 | B.F.A. Painting, University of Texas at Austin |