PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS
2024 [in progress] Palmystery, terrazzo lobby floor for Broward
County Property Assessment Office, Fort Lauderale, FL. Commissioned
by Broward County Cultural Division, Public Art $ Design
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
2024 Summer Spotlight, Equity Gallery, New York, NY
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
2024 Perspectives: Six Artists, The Gallery at Spencertown Academy, Spencertown, NY
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, CAFlorida-Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL
WAM Singapore
Sam Houston University, Huntsville, TX
University Hospital, San Antonio, TX
University of Oregon, Eugene, OR
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