Ching Ho Cheng

Ching Ho Cheng (December 26, 1946 – May 25, 1989) was an American visual artist of Chinese descent whose work occupies a distinct place within the cultural and aesthetic landscape of postwar New York. Active from the late 1960s through the 1980s, Cheng developed a materially innovative and conceptually introspective practice that intersected with the downtown avant-garde, psychedelic art, and emergent Asian American artistic expression. His oeuvre—spanning gouache paintings, intricate works on paper, and the luminous “torn paper” and “painted light” series—has garnered increasing scholarly interest for its synthesis of technical precision, metaphysical inquiry, and cross-cultural sensibilities.