Shu Lea Cheang
Taiwan born artist, filmmaker and net art pioneer
Biography
Shu Lea Cheang was born in 1954 in Tainan, Taiwan. She is an artist and filmmaker who makes genre bending work, often using sci-fi narratives and building interfaces for public participation, and is a net art pioneer. BRANDON (1998 to 1999) was the first net art commissioned and collected by the Guggenheim. She represented Taiwan at the 2019 Venice Biennale with 3x3x6, received the 2024 LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Award, and her films include FRESH KILL (1994), I.K.U. (2000), FLUID (2017) and UKI (2023). Garlic=Rich Air was an interactive online work set in 2030, where garlic functions as a social currency traded on a platform called G-Mart and can be exchanged for real organic garlic.
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