BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Chrissy Cheung is a Vancouver-based artist and curator. Her paintings and drawings compel the viewer to follow the lines and modes of connection through which she animates her works.
Though abstract in form, her pieces employ figurative material in complex, nuanced, and detailed ways. Her works draw on imagery from the real, the imaginary, the subconscious, and more, and transform such material in powerfully allusive ways. Vitally, Cheung’s work represents and embodies motion, both her own movement in their rendering and, subsequently and enticingly, that of the engaged viewer’s eyes. In this way, she captures the essence of temporal, physical artistic forms of contemporary dance and music, which are significant sources of inspiration.
Chrissy grew up in Toronto and became interested in art at the age of seven. She studied at Concordia University, Montreal, completing her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2000. In 2005, she fulfilled an artist residency at the Banff Centre. She has contributed to the Salon des Arts at the 2008 Osheaga Festival. Her solo exhibitions include Structured Abstractions at the 2 of 2 Gallery, Toronto, Stairway @ Galerie LSB, Dessins contemporains at Maison de la Culture Plateau Mont-Royal in Montréal.
Recently Chrissy has been featured in reviews in Creators Vancouver, the Richmond Sentinel, Edmonton Journal, and Scout Magazine. In previous years, she has been reviewed in Akimbo and Now Magazine, and was featured on CityTV, Calgary.
Cheung completed the Freebird mural in Vancouver’s Chinatown (2019, now defunct) and, more recently, her work is featured at the Signature Richmond BC Mazda dealership and at Gyro Mazda dealership in East York, Toronto. These projects exemplify Chrissy’s increased focus on finding public-art contexts for her work.
Her large-scale paintings have been rented by Beverly Hills Productions, Los Angeles, for background art in the Fox television show, BH90210. Chrissy works in pre-production as a scenic painter in the entertainment tv & film industry.
Recent exhibitions include Interconnections in a New World exhibiting at Capulet Art Gallery in conjunction with the 2021 explorAsian Festival, Richmond, BC. She also exhibited at the Market Art and Design Fair in Bridgehampton, New York, and the Reveal Art Fair in Saratoga Springs, New York, through ModArt Gallery, Miami, in July 2019. Her work is part of Ville de Montréal Collection, as well as private collections in Canada, USA, Denmark, and China.
Chrissy is the curator for the Painter8 Arts Society since 2017. In this work, she combines her knowledge as an artist who has shown in more than 50 exhibitions nationally and internationally with a vision for new contexts where art can be effectively realized.
Insipiration from other artists and places:
Josh Zubot
Craig Talbot
Dawna Mark
Grace Yow
Tanya Tagaq
Kai Chan
Valérie Blass
Johann Wolfgang Goethe
Paterson Ewen
Anselm Kiefer
Johannes Vermeer
Agora de la Danse
Centre Georges Pompidou
Manchu Picchu
Musée d’arts contemporain, Montréal
I really can’t paint without great music. Here are my music suggestions: (in no particular order)
Cat Power
The National
Thee oh sees
Of Montreal
Morcheeba
Wolf Parade
K. Flay
St. Vincent
Laurie Anderson
Billy Bragg
Amy Winehouse
Rihanna
Led Zeppelin
Of Montreal
Robert Plant + Alison Krauss
Andrea Bocellli
Beach House
Nicholas Van Orton
Brian Eno
Arcade Fire
Ron Sexsmith
Rodriguez
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