Biography

Conrad Cheung is an artist, writer, and educator working across installation, architecture, performance, video, and more. Drawing on histories of institutional critique, experimental architecture, and alternative theater, their practice engages the politics of place, public life, and knowledge systems. Through research-based and participatory interventions, they construct counter-systems — spatial, social, and procedural — that make space for emergent, illegible, and multispecies forms of public flourishing, refusal, and assembly.

Cheung is Assistant Professor of 3D + Extended Media at the University of Florida. Previously, they taught at University of Virginia, where they served as Head of Sculpture from 2022–2024, and at Colorado College. Cheung holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as the 2021 Eldon Danhausen Fellow in Sculpture, as well as a BFA in Ceramics and a BA in Philosophy from Alfred University. They have exhibited in the US, Canada, France, and China, at venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Mana Contemporary, the New York State Museum, and the Monira Foundation.

Current projects include public work with cultural and ecological organizations in Florida; long-form essays in cultural criticism on the ethics of metaphor and emerging affective structures shaped by digital life and ambient crisis (e.g., “brainrot”); and cross-disciplinary collaborations under the aliases The Institute for Improvisational Infrastructures and nonhumanities.