Conrad Cheung

Conrad Cheung is an artist, writer, and educator working across installation, performance, video, civic practice, and critical writing. Drawing on histories of experimental architecture, alternative theater, and institutional critique, their practice examines how space operates as a tool of governance — organizing bodies, formatting attention, distributing access — and produces alternative infrastructures that make room for multispecies cohabitation, collective improvisation, and forms of care that existing systems are not built to accommodate.

Cheung often works through collaborative frames, including the Institute for Improvisational Infrastructures and nonhumanities (with Anna Hogg and Katie Baer Schetlick). Current projects include One Million Counterextinctions, a multi-stage civic art project in partnership with the Alachua County Office of Resiliency that collaborates with communities to design emergency infrastructure for nonhuman species facing climate crisis. Their writing includes essays in cultural criticism, most recently “Libidinal Loop, Rotten Image: A Theory of Brainrot” on digital culture and collective exhaustion.

Cheung is Assistant Professor of 3D + Extended Media at the University of Florida. Previously, they taught at the University of Virginia, where they served as Head of Sculpture from 2022 to 2024. 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. 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, and their writing has appeared with Asia Art Archive and the Public Media Institute.