Conrad Cheung

Conrad Cheung is an artist, writer, and educator working across installation, performance, video, civic practice, and critical writing. Their practice examines how architecture, platforms, and administrative systems format collective life — organizing bodies, capturing attention, converting shared space into governable objects, and quietly deciding whose futures, human and nonhuman, can be imagined. They develop alternative, participatory infrastructures — architectures, protocols, events, and furniture — that make room for strange collaborations, multispecies cohabitations, and forms of care that existing systems are not built to accommodate.

Cheung often works through collaborative frames, including the Institute for Improvisational Infrastructures (a counter-architectural firm with a rotating cast of collaborators) and nonhumanities (with Anna Hogg and Katie Baer Schetlick). Current projects include One Million Counterextinctions, a multi-year civic art project in partnership with the Alachua County Office of Resiliency that collaborates with communities to design emergency infrastructure for nonhuman species in a climate-shifted 2045. Recent and ongoing writing includes “Libidinal Loop, Rotten Image: A Theory of Brainrot” (Asia Art Archive, 2025) and Making Unseizable, a book-length manuscript on designing commons that persist under hostile governance.

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.