Shu Lea Cheang

Shu Lea Cheang (1954, Tainan) is an artist and film-maker who engages in genre-bending, gender-hacking art practices. She drafts sci-fi narratives in her film scenarios and artwork imagination. She was celebrated as a net art pioneer with BRANDON (1998), the first web art commissioned and collected by Guggenheim Museum, New York. Cheang represented Taiwan with a mixed media installation, 3x3x6, at the Venice Biennale 2019. She has made four feature films including FLUIDø (2017) and UKI (2023). She received the LG Guggenheim Art and Technology Award in 2024 and presented a survey exhibition at Haus der Kunst Munich in 2025. Cheang lives and works in Paris.