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PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS

2021    Worlds Within Worlds, laminated glass windscreens for four
Streetcar Stations and seating and ceiling designs for Gold Lynx
streetcars. Commissioned by Charlotte Area Transit System,
Charlotte, NC

2020    Nature Provides mosaic, glass + brass mural at Western State
Hospital, Lakewood, WA. Commissioned by Arts Washington.

2015    Big Skies printed vinyl traffic boxes located at four downtown
street corners, Odessa, TX. Commissioned by the Odessa Council
for the Arts & Humanities.

2015    Beyond the Biosphere, two printed vinyl canopies, Slauson Bus
station, Los Angeles, CA. Commissioned by Los Angeles County
Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

2013    Celestial Playground, mosaic + brass mural, Jacksonville
International Airport, Jacksonville, FL Commissioned by
Jacksonville Aviation Authority.

2013    Nucleic Life Formation, two ceramic tile murals, Lambert-
St. Louis Airport MetroLink Station, St. Louis, MO.
Commissioned by Metro St. Louis.

2012    Rediscovery, four laminated glass windscreens, 25th Avenue
Subway Station, Brooklyn, NY. Commissioned by New York
Metropolitan Transit Authority Arts for Transit.

2009    Destination: Points Unknown, hand-painted ceramic tile mural,
Howard Street El Station, Chicago, IL. Commissioned by Chicago
Transit Authority Arts in Transit.2007    Las Flores, seven faceted glass windscreens, Cleveland Street
Subway Station, Brooklyn, NY. Commissioned by the New York
Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts for Transit.

2004    In Memory of My Father, mosaic column, Terminal A, Seattle
Tacoma International Airport, Commissioned by Port of Seattle,
Seattle, WA

2002    Looking Through the Layers of Time, oil-painted Dibond panels,
P.S. 58, The School of Heroes, Commissioned by NYC Public Art for
Public Schools, Maspeth, NY

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022     Spheres and SinoSpheres, Volker Orth Museum, Queens, NY

2019     A New Beginning, Carter Burden Covello Center,
             New York, NY

2015     Breathing Lessons, Plattsburg State Art Museum,
             Plattsburgh, NY

2013      Irrational Exuberance, Tower Fine Art Gallery, University of
  New York at Brockport, NY

2010      Evidence of Things Unseen, Turchin Center for Visual Art,
  Appalachian State University, Boone, NC

2005      Amy Cheng: Paintings, Moreau Gallery, St. Mary’s College,
  Notre Dame, IN

2001      Amy Cheng: Paintings, Art & Soul Gallery, Boulder, CO

1998      Present Perfect, Gallery 456, New York, NY

1997       I Shock Myself, Penny Liebman Contemporary Art, New York, NY

              Unified Field Theory, Marist College Art Gallery,
              Poughkeepsie, NY

              The Journey Home, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA

1992       The Barbarians Are Coming, C&A Gallery, New York, NY

1991       Amy Cheng: Paintings, The Harrison Gallery, Boca Raton, FL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS                                                     

2023     Process and Delight: The New P & D, Equity Gallery, New York, NY

              EXITentialism, ARTFront Galleries, Newark, NJ

              A Point in Time and Space, West Strand Gallery, Kingston, NY

              Friends & Family, Too, Carter Burden Gallery, New York, NY

2022     Matrixes Small Works, Kate Oh Gallery, New York, NY

2019      Making Art Work, El Barrio’s Art Space P.S. 109, New York, NY

2018      Meditations in Color: Richard Carter & Amy Cheng, 1801 California, Denver, CO

               2018 Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, (juried by Jean
   Shin), University Art Museum, State University of New York at
   Albany, NY

               Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of New York
   Foundation for the Arts Fellowships Featuring 25 Artists from
   Ulster County
, Muroff-Kotler Visual Arts Gallery, Ulster
   County Community College, Stone Ridge, NY

2017       Mandalas: Structured and Unstructured, William Havu
   Gallery, Denver, CO

2015      Color, Mary Tomás Gallery, Dallas, TX

              Geometric Repetition, Mary Tomás Gallery, Dallas, TX

2014       The Reason for Beauty, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington,
   MA

              Chroma, Hudson Beach Gallery, Van Brunt Projects, Beacon, NY

              2014 Exhibition by Artists of the Mohawk-Hudson Region, juried by
              Stephen Westfall, Albany Institute of History and Art, Albany, NY

2013      Making Their Mark: Eight Artists from the Stone Canoe,
              Lubin House Gallery, New York, NY

              Fields of Vision: Work by SUNY New Paltz Art Department Faculty,
              Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York
              at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY

2012      Every Picture Tells a Story: Amy Cheng, Xin Song, Muriel Sparks
              Amy Simon Fine Art, Wesport, CT

              Across the Divide, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin,
              TX

              The Riot of Spring, The Third Floor Gallery, New York, NY

2011      Exercises in Unnecessary Beauty, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art,
              State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY

              Views of the Orient, UBS Headquarters, Stamford, CT

              GE Asian Art Exhibition, General Electric Headquarters, Fairfield, CT

              Mohawk Hudson Regional Invitational 2011: Amy Cheng, Katie
              DeGroot and Douglas Dunning
, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY

              Across the Divide, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin at
              Whitewater, Whitewater, WI

              Orange, Elisa Contemporary Art, The Bronx, NY

2010       I Am the Cosmos, curated by Sara Henry, New Jersey State
              Museum,Trenton, NJ

              2010 Artist of the Mohawk Hudson Region (curated by Charles
              Desmarais), The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY

2009       Americaura, Centre Cultural, Brussels, Belgium

              2009 Winter Artists-in-Residence, McColl Center for Visual Art,
              Charlotte, NC

2008       Americaura, National Library of Cameroon, Yaounde, Cameroon

              On Faith: Saviors, Prophets, and Magic, Rhonda Schaller Gallery,
              New York, NY

              Midnight Full of Stars,(catalog), Visual Arts Center of New Jersey,
              Summit, NJ

              Across the Divide, Pei Ling Chang Gallery of the Savannah College
              of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

              Facing East, Facing West, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College,
              Allentown, PA (catalog)

              Summer Rotation, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT

2007      Americaura, Hampden Gallery, University of Massachusetts at

              Amherst, Amherst, MA

2006      Contemporary Chinese Visions, Amy Simon Fine Art, Westport, CT

              Waterfall, Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH

              Simultaneous Realities, Olin Fine Arts Center Gallery,
              Washington and Jefferson College, Lancaster, PA

              Across the Divide, Reed Whipple Cultural Center Gallery, Las
              Vegas, NV

2005      Brave New Worlds, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Program, L.I.C.,
              NY (catalog)

              Wax: Encaustic Techniques in Contemporary Art, The Brush
              Art Gallery, Lowell, MA

2004      Abstract, Concepto Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

              Alcyone, Pleiades Gallery, New York, NY

              Talking Hands, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

2003       Accumulative Efforts, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY

2002       Centering: Ancient and Contemporary Expressions of the Sacred,
              Sonoma Museum of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA

2001      Over and Over: Patterns and Layers, Marist College Art Gallery,
              Poughkeepsie, NY

              Dreaming: Prophesies, Speculations, and Good Guesses, Augusta
              Savage Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA

2000      Small Pleasures in Idleness, Gallery 456, New York, NY

              Open Your Art and Soul, Art & Soul Gallery, Boulder, CO

1999      Eat Art, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY

              A Prismatic Mirror, Phoenix Gallery, New York, NY, (catalog)

1998      Stony Brook Selections From Coast to Coast, [curated by Marysol
              Nieves, The Bronx Museum of the Arts], Stony Brook Union Gallery,
              State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY,

1997      Parallel Universes, [curated by Amy Cheng], Eighth Floor Gallery,
              New York, NY

1997      Art Exchange, Penny Liebman Contemporary Art, New York, NY

              The Sense of Touch: An Exhibition of Women Printmakers, Ceres
              Gallery, New York, NY

1996      Repetition Compulsion, Eighth Floor Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED CORPORATE, MUSEUM AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
New York University Langone Medical Center, New York, NY
Banyan Primera, Lake Mary, FL
Montefiore Einstein Fine Art Collection, The Bronx, NY
Chevron Corporation, San Ramon, CA
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals, Collegeville, PA
United States State Department, U.S. Embassy, Kazakhstan
Sheraton Hotels, Brussels, Belgium
Scholastic Productions, New York, NY
Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Philadelphia, PA
Lang Communications, New York, NY
King County Public Art Collection, Seattle, WA
Hewlett-Packard, San Francisco, CA
Florida-Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
Sam Houston University, Huntsville, TX
University Hospital, San Antonio, TX
University of Oregon, Eugene, FL

SELECTED GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS

2023    FST Studio Projects Fund

2017     Fulbright Lecture Fellowship, Art Department Painting Graduate
             Program, Renmin University of China, Beijing, PRC

2011     Studio Artist Space Program, PS 122 Studios, New York, NY

2008     Fulbright Senior Lecture/Research grant to Brazil, Visiting Professor,
             Graduate Painting Program, São Paulo University, S.P., Brazil

2005     Contemplative Practice Fellowship, the Center for Contemplative
             Mind in Society, Northhampton, MA

1996     New York Foundation for the Arts, Painting Fellowship

1994     Arts International, Travel grant to China

1990     New York Foundation for the Arts, Painting Fellowship

ARTIST RESIDENCIES

2019 Carter Burden Covello Center, Artist-in-Residence (Jan-March)

2011     Constance Saltonstall Foundation, Ithaca, NY

2011     Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA

2009     McColl Center for Visual Art, Charlotte, NC, Artist-in-
             Residence (winter term)

2009     Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL

2007     Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, IL

2007     Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA

2006     Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Amherst, VA

2005     Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

1999     Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar, Spain

1997     The Millay Colony, Austerlitz, NY

1992     MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

1990     Yaddo Corporation, Saratoga Springs, NY

1989     MacDowell Colony, Peterborough, NH

TEACHING

2020            Professor Emerita, Art Department, State University of New
                    York at New Paltz­­

2004-2020   Professor, Art Department, State University of New York
                    at New Paltz

1999-2004   Associate Professor, State University of New York
                    at New Paltz

1997-1999   Assistant Professor, State University of New York
                    at New Paltz

2004            Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, co-teach “The Creative
                   Process,” an interdisciplinary course, with Patricia Wallace, Professor,
                   English Dept. funded by the Carolyn Grant Foundation

1990-1997  Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Art Department, Assistant
                   Professor, Art Department

1994           Vermont College, Montpelier, VT, MFA in Visual Arts Program,
                   Artist Advisor

1989-90      Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, Visual Arts Program, Lecturer

1985-86      Hunter College, City University of New York, NY, Art Department,
                   Lecturer

PANELS & JURIES

2012     Visual Arts Editor for the Stone Canoe, Vol. 7, Syracuse University,
             Syracuse, NY

2010     Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts for Transit Program juror
             for the Metro North Tarrytown Station, Tarrytown, New York

2004     New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program
             juror for the Department of Transportation project located in the
             Sunrise section of Queens, New York

2003     Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and Maryland State Arts Council
             Painting Fellowship Jury Panel hosted by the Mid Atlantic
             Arts Foundation, Baltimore, MD

2002     The Millay Art Colony, Austerlitz, NY, juror for residency applicants

2000     Conversation hosted by The School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
             led by Carol Becker and Michael Brenson, funded by the
             Rockefeller Foundation, to discuss establishing a center for the study
             of art and artists in society.

1999     Ooh Ahh… Oh! Arts Now 1999, co-director of art conference sponsored by
             The School of Fine and Performing Arts, State of New York at New Paltz on the topic
             of art and audience

1997-99   Working Group on the Arts and Humanities, Institute for Innovation
                in Social Policy, Fordham Graduate Center, sponsored by the
                Rockefeller Foundation

EDUCATION

1982     M.F.A. Painting, Hunter College, City University of New York

1978     B.F.A. Painting, University of Texas at Austin