Amy Cheng, born in Taiwan, raised in Brazil, Oklahoma, and Texas, is a widely exhibited painter who maintains a parallel career in public art. She received a BFA in Painting from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MFA in Painting from Hunter College, City University of New York.

 

Her paintings and works on paper are held in a number of corporate and public collections, including the Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY, Sheraton Hotels, Brussels, Belgium, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Philadelphia, PA, New York University Langone Medical Center, and Hewlett-Packard, San Francisco.

 

She has completed a dozen permanent commissions fabricated in mosaic, glass, ceramic, terrazzo and more. These include projects at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, WA, the Howard Street El Station, Chicago, IL, the 25^th Avenue Subway Station, Brooklyn, NY, and Western State Hospital, Tacoma, WA. She has received two New York Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellowships, a Senior Research/Lecture Fulbright to USP, São Paulo, Brazil, and a Fulbright Teaching Fellowship at Renmin University, Beijing, China.

 

She is a Professor Emerita of the Art Department at the State University of New York at New Paltz.