Conrad Cheung

Conrad Cheung is Assistant Professor of 3D + Extended Media in the School of Art + Art History and Affiliate Faculty in Sustainability Studies at the University of Florida.

An artist, writer, and educator, Cheung works across art, design, architecture, and civic process, building counter-systems — civic assemblies, emergency architectures, spatial protocols, parafictional organizations — where existing institutions prove insufficient. Current work includes One Million Counterextinctions, a multi-stage civic project with the Alachua County Office of Resiliency that equips non-expert publics to design multispecies infrastructure for a climate-shifted 2045. Cheung’s collaborative platforms include the Institute for Improvisational Infrastructures (III), a counter-architectural firm, and nonhumanities, an artist collective with Anna Hogg and Katie Baer Schetlick.

Their recent essays have appeared in Social Text, Broadcast (Pioneer Works), and Asia Art Archive, where Cheung is co-editor, with Paul Fermin, of a forthcoming series on AI and aesthetics. Cheung is also completing a book manuscript, Making Unseizable, which develops a design ethics for commoning under conditions of administrative capture.

Previously Head of Sculpture at the University of Virginia, they hold an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as the 2021 Eldon Danhausen Fellow in Sculpture and a BFA in Ceramics and BA in Philosophy from Alfred University.