{"data":{"id":"8980","type":"artist","attributes":{"id":8980,"topgoose_id":6257,"tms_id":8980,"display_name":"Shu Lea Cheang","sort_name":"Cheang Shu Lea","display_date":"1954–","begin_date":"1954","end_date":"0","biography":"\u003cp class=\"large\"\u003eShu Lea Cheang (b. 1954; Tainan, Taiwan) is an artist and filmmaker who engages in genre-bending, gender-hacking art practices. She frequently uses sci-fi narratives in her film scenarios and artworks and builds interfaces that invite public participation. A net art pioneer, her work \u003ca href=\"https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/15337\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBRANDON\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/a\u003e (1998–99) was the first piece of net art commissioned and collected by the Guggenheim Museum, New York. Cheang represented Taiwan at the 2019 Venice Biennale with her mixed-media installation \u003cem\u003e3x3x6\u003c/em\u003e. Crafting her own genre of sci-fi “New Queer Cinema,” she has made four feature films: \u003cem\u003eFRESH KILL\u003c/em\u003e (1994),\u003cem\u003e\u0026nbsp;I.K.U.\u003c/em\u003e (2000), \u003cem\u003eFLUIDø\u003c/em\u003e (2017), and \u003cem\u003eUKI\u003c/em\u003e (2023). In 2024 Cheang received the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Award. In 2025, her survey exhibition \u003cem\u003eKI$$ KI$$\u003c/em\u003e was shown at Haus der Kunst, Munich; and her theatre performance \u003cem\u003eHagay Dreaming\u003c/em\u003e was presented at Tate Modern, London.\u003c/p\u003e","on_view":true,"artport":true,"biennial":true,"collection":true,"ulan_id":"500123007","wikidata_id":"Q3482619","created_at":"2023-11-17T18:10:31.577-05:00","updated_at":"2026-04-18T01:32:56.006-04:00","links":{"artworks":"/api/artists/8980/artworks","exhibitions":"/api/artists/8980/exhibitions"}}}}