Group Exhibitions
- 2025
Okayama Art Summit ~ The Parks of Aomame ~ curated by Philippe Parreno ~ Okayama
(Opening 2025-09-26)
- 2024
Fondation Beyeler ~ Dance With Daemons ~ Basel
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- 2024
MMCA ~ What An Artificial World ~ CheongJu
- 2023
Mori Art Museum ~ Our Ecology ~ curated by Reiko Tsubaki ~ Tokyo
- 2023
Kanal Centre Pompidou ~ Connecting ~ curated by Bas Hendrikx & Barbara Cueto ~ Brussels
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- 2023
Centre Pompidou-Metz ~ Worldbuilding ~ curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist ~ Metz
- 2023
HEK ~ Collective Worldbuilding ~ curated by Sabine Himmelsbach & Boris Magrini ~ Basel
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- 2023
Schinkel Pavillon ~ Human Is ~ curated by Nina Pohl & Franziska Sophie Wildförster ~ Berlin
- 2022
Julia Stoschek Foundation ~ Worldbuilding: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age ~ curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist ~ Dusseldorf
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- 2022
Aspen Art Museum ~ Mountain / Time ~ curated by Chrissie Illes ~ Aspen
- 2022
MOCA ~ Old and New Dreams: Recent Acquisitions in a Collection ~ Los Angeles
- 2021
M Plus ~ Individuals, Networks, Expressions ~ Hong Kong
- 2020
de Young Museum ~ Uncanny Valley ~ curated by Claudia Schmuckli ~ San Francisco
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- 2020
Serpentine Galleries ~ Do It (Around the World) ~ curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist ~ online
- 2019
Moderna Museet ~ Mud Muses ~ curated by Lars Bang Larsen ~ Stockholm
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- 2019
Okayama Art Summit ~ IF THE SNAKE もし 蛇が ~ curated by Pierre Huyghe ~ Okayama
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- 2019
Venice Biennale 2019 ~ May you live in interesting times ~ curated by Ralph Rugoff ~ Venice
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- 2019
Museum of Modern Art ~ New Order: Art and Technology in the 21st Century ~ curated by Michelle Kuo ~ New York
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- 2019
Sharjah Biennial 2019 ~ Leaving The Echo Chamber ~ curated by Zoe Butt, Omar Kholeif, Claire Tancons ~ Sharjah
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- 2019
Metro Pictures ~ Life To Come ~ curated by Asad Raza ~ New York
- 2018
Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève ~ Biennial of Moving Image ~ curated by Andrea Lissoni & Andrea Bellini ~ Geneva
- 2018
Schirn Kunsthalle ~ Wilderness ~ curated by Esther Schlicht ~ Frankfurt
- 2018
Maxxi ~ Low Forms ~ curated by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi ~ Rome
- 2018
The Ghost Foundation ~ Ghost:2561 ~ curated by Korakrit Arunanondchai & Akapol Sudasna ~ Bangkok
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- 2018
Whitney Museum of American Art ~ Programmed: 1965–2018 ~ New York
- 2018
MCA Chicago ~ I Was Raised on the Internet ~ Chicago
- 2018
Fondation Louis Vuitton ~ In Tune with the World ~ Paris
- 2017
Fondation Louis Vuitton ~ Etre moderne: Le MoMA à Paris ~ curated by Glenn Lowry, Suzanne Pagé ~ Paris
- 2017
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art ~ Being There ~ curated by Mathias Ussing Seeberg ~ Humlebæk
- 2017
Kestner Gesellschaft ~ in relation to a Spectator ~ curated by Studio for Propositional Cinema ~ Hannover
- 2017
Yokohama Museum of Art ~ Yokohama Triennale ~ curated by Akiko Miki ~ Yokohama
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- 2017
Julia Stoschek Collection ~ Generation Loss ~ curated by Ed Atkins ~ Dusseldorf
- 2017
Tate Modern ~ Ten Days, Six Nights ~ curated by Andrea Lissoni and Catherine Wood ~ London
- 2016
Whitney Museum ~ Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 ~ curated by Chrissie Iles ~ New York
- 2016
Jewish Museum ~ Take Me (I'm Yours) ~ curated by Jens Hoffmann, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Kelly Taxter ~ New York
- 2016
Yuz Museum ~ OVERPOP ~ curated by Jeffrey Deitch ~ Shanghai
- 2016
Liverpool Biennial ~ Liverpool Biennial 2016 ~ Liverpool
- 2016
Julia Stoschek Collection Dusseldorf ~ WELT AM DRAHT ~ Dusseldorf
- 2016
Hirschhorn Museum ~ Suspended Animation ~ curated by Gianni Jetzer ~ Washington D.C.
- 2016
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland ~ Stranger ~ curated by Rose Bouthillier ~ Cleveland
- 2015
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (ARC) ~ Co-Workers: Network As Artist ~ curated by Angeline Scherf, Toke Lykkeberg, Jessica Castex ~ Paris
- 2015
Betonsalon ~ Co-Workers: Beyond Disaster ~ curated by Mélanie Bouteloup and Garance Malivel ~ Paris
- 2015
Albright-Knox Art Gallery ~ Screen Play: Life in an Animated World ~ curated by Joe Lin-Hill, Cathleen Chaffee, Laura Brill ~ Buffalo
- 2015
Max Hetzler Gallery ~ Open Source ~ curated by Lisa Schiff, Leslie Fritz and Eugenio Re Rebaudengo ~ Berlin
- 2015
Kunsthalle Dusseldorf ~ Real Humans ~ curated by Elodie Evers and Irina Raskin ~ Dusseldorf
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- 2014
Taipei Biennial 2014 ~ The Great Acceleration ~ curated by Nicolas Bourriaud ~ Taipei
- 2014
Blum & Poe ~ Technokinesis ~ curated by Jenny Jaskey and Andrea Neustein ~ New York
- 2014
Pilar Corrias ~ Phantom Limbs ~ London
- 2014
Bortolami ~ Chatbots, tongues, denial & various other abstractions ~ curated by Jacob King ~ New York
- 2014
The Artist's Institute ~ Pierre Huyghe ~ curated by Jenny Jaskey ~ New York
- 2013
Cura Basement ~ The Time Machine (The Survivors) ~ curated by CURA with an idea from Ilaria Marotta ~ Rome
- 2013
12th Biennale de Lyon ~ Meanwhile...Suddenly And Then ~ curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran ~ Lyon
- 2013
Greene Naftali Gallery ~ Freak Out! ~ New York
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- 2013
MoMA PS1 ~ ProBio ~ curated by Josh Kline ~ New York
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- 2013
Volker Bradtke ~ A HAMMER BLOW TO THE HEAD CAN INJURE THE SOUL ~ curated by Adam Harrison ~ Dusseldorf
- 2012
iTunes ~ how to download a boyfriend ~ curated by Badlands Unlimited ~ Online
- 2012
Primary Work Surface ~ A Programming Language ~ curated by Kari Rittenbach ~ London
- 2012
SculptureCenter ~ A Disagreeable Object ~ curated by Ruba Katrib ~ New York
- 2011
Mitchell-Innes & Nash ~ DECEMBER ~ curated by Howie Chen ~ New York
Selected Docs
- 2023
Plinth, When AI Grows Up, by Gary Zhexi Zhang
- 2022
The Stoa, The Art of Worlding: Creating the World You Wish to Inhabit w/ Ian Cheng, by Peter Limberg
- 2022
Spike Art Magazine, Empathy is an Open Circuit: An Interview with Ian Cheng, by Ido Nahari
- 2022
Frieze, How Do You Care for Artificially Sentient Art?, by Ben Fino-Raden
- 2022
Maquette, A Coefficient of Luck, by Alex Zafiris
- 2022
Right Click Save, Can AI unlock the Unconscious?, by Ann Marie Alanes
- 2022
Artnet, Artist Ian Cheng Channeled Anxieties About A.I. and Fatherhood Into a High-Tech Yet Deeply Personal New Film, by Taylor Dafoe
- 2022
Studio International, What’s the worst possible dad I could be?, by Emily Spicer
- 2022
The Quietus, Re-Worlding: Ian Cheng’s AI Art Hopes To Flip Your Life Script, by Amah-Rose Abrams
- 2022
032c, A Great Anomic Era: Ian Cheng, by Henry Levinson
- 2022
Wallpaper, Artist Ian Cheng explores the technological and aesthetic potential of AI, by Will Jennings
- 2022
Elephant Art, How the Ideas of Eric Berne Shaped My AI Creations, by Ravi Ghosh
- 2021
Apollo Magazine, Apollo 40 Under 40 Podcast, by Gabrielle Schwarz
- 2021
Frieze, Ian Cheng on Technology’s Optimized Futures, by Travis Diehl
- 2021
ArtNews, Ian Cheng’s Life After BOB, by Angelica Frey
- 2021
Art and Object, Life After B.O.B: Ian Cheng’s Wild 21st Century Take on Free Will, by Howard Halle
- 2021
Art and Obsolescence, Episode 006: Ian Cheng, by Ben Fino-Raden
- 2021
New York Times, Very Personal Computing: In Artist's New Work AI Meets Fatherhood, by Frank Rose
- 2020
De Young Museum, Minimum Viable Sentience, by Ian Cheng
- 2020
TIME, There's No Story That Stays Stable for Too Long
- 2019
Ribbonfarm, Worlding Raga: 6 - World To Live, by Ian Cheng
- 2019
Artforum, Ian Cheng BOB at Gladstone Gallery, by Dawn Chan
- 2019
Ribbonfarm, Worlding Raga: 4 - Who Worlds?, by Ian Cheng
- 2019
New Yorker, Goings On About Town: Ian Cheng, by Andrea K Scott
- 2019
In Other Words, Art Agency Partners Podcast #54: Ian Cheng, by Charlotte Burns
- 2019
MoMA Magazine, New to MoMA: Ian Cheng’s Emissaries, by Stuart Comer
- 2019
Ribbonfarm, Worlding Raga: 2 - What is a World?, by Ian Cheng
- 2019
4 Columns, "BOB is not there for you", by Reinaldo Laddaga
- 2019
Brooklyn Rail, In Conversation: Ian Cheng, by Osman Can Yerebakan
- 2019
Artnews, There’s Something Maniacal About Basic Desires, by Annie Armstrong
- 2018
Living Content, Living Content 18: Ian Cheng, by Adriana Bildaru
- 2018
Metis Suns, EMISSARY'S GUIDE TO WORLDING: expanded ebook edition, Edited by Veronica So and Nicholas Sung
- 2018
Serpentine Galleries with Koenig Books, EMISSARIES GUIDE TO WORLDING
- 2017
Serpentine Galleries: GUEST, GHOST, HOST Marathon, Ian Cheng & Richard Evans in Conversation
- 2017
Louisiana Channel, Ian Cheng: A Portal to Infinity, by Kasper Bech Dyg
- 2017
Wall Street Journal , Ian Cheng’s Videogames Take On a Life of Their Own, by Kelly Crow
- 2017
Office, The Worldmaker and His Killjoy, by Veronica So
- 2017
Even Magazine , An Interview with Ian Cheng , by Jason Farago
- 2017
Glass Bead , Simulated Subjects: In conversation with Ian Cheng and Hito Steyerl, by Glass Bead
- 2017
New Yorker, Watch the Absorbing and Tedious Simulations of Ian Cheng, by Andrea K. Scott
- 2017
New Yorker, Ian Cheng's Alternate Realities at. MOMA PS1, by Andrea K. Scott
- 2017
4 Columns, Welcome to the Sentient Atoll, by Ed Halter
- 2017
SI Visions, Ian Cheng on the Society of Mind, by Swiss Institute
- 2016
Garage, Creatures of Narrative, by Haley Mellin
- 2016
Artspace, Artificial Ecology: Ian Cheng on the Strange Art of Simulating Life, by Dylan Kerr
- 2016
Even, Interview: Ian Cheng, by Jason Farago
- 2016
Rhizome, Trust Issues: Ian Cheng’s App Resists Digital Smoothness, by Nora N. Khan
- 2016
Spike Art Quarterly, Portrait Ian Cheng, by Gianni Jetzer
- 2016
Artnews, The Cyborg Anthropologist: Ian Cheng on his Sentient Artworks, by Alex Greenberger
- 2016
Artforum, Hermetic Engineering, by Ben Vickers
- 2016
Cura Magazine, Ian Cheng in Conversation, by Elvia Wilk
- 2016
Migros Museum with JPR Ringer, Forking at Perfection, By Ian Cheng, Raphael Gygax and Franziska Bigger
- 2015
Frieze, Review: Ian Cheng at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, by Arielle Bier
- 2015
Artforum, Critics’ Picks: Emissary on the Squats of God, by Agnieszka Gratza
- 2015
Kunsthalle Dusseldorf with Spector Books, Live Simulations
- 2014
The Machine Stops, Halmos, Infinite Game of Thrones, by Ian Cheng
- 2013
Bomb Magazine, Ian Cheng, by Dylan Kerr
- 2013
Frieze, Future Fictions, by Ian Cheng
Events
- 2023
Neuro Gym, Ethereum Foundation: Summer of Protocols, online
- 2021
Worlding, Unfinished Live, New York
- 2021
Worlding, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
- 2018
Worlding, M+ Matters, Hong Kong
- 2018
Design Media Arts Lecture Series, University of California LA, Los Angeles
- 2018
new art, flag art, good art, portal art, Berkeley Center for New Media, Berkeley
- 2017
GUEST, GHOST, HOST: MACHINE! Marathon, Serpentine Galleries, London
- 2017
Ian Cheng, MoMA Modern Mondays, New York
Education
- 2009 MFA Visual Arts, Columbia University, New York NY
- 2006 BA Cognitive Science, BA Art Practice, UC Berkeley, Berkeley CA
- Born 1984, Los Angeles
- Lives and works in New York