Conrad Cheung      is an artist, writer, and educator working across installation, performance, civic practice, video, and more. Drawing on histories of institutional critique, experimental architecture, and alternative theater, their practice builds counter-systems — spatial, ecological, and procedural — that remake how bodies, publics, and institutions meet. They read space as a tool of governance: it determines who gathers, what gets understood, and whose futures — human and not — are thinkable. Through research-based and participatory interventions, their projects make space for what existing orders cannot accommodate: emergent, illegible, and multispecies forms of flourishing, refusal, and assembly.

Cheung is Assistant Professor of 3D + Extended Media in the School of Art + Art History at the University of Florida. Previously, they taught at the University of Virginia, where they served as Head of Sculpture from 2022 to 2024, and at Colorado College. They hold an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as the 2021 Eldon Danhausen Fellow in Sculpture, as well as a BFA in Ceramics and a BA in Philosophy from Alfred University. Cheung has exhibited in the US, Canada, France, and China, at venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Mana Contemporary, the New York State Museum, and the Monira Foundation.

Current projects include public work with civic and ecological organizations in Florida, including Alachua County's Office of Resiliency; long-form essays in cultural criticism on the ethics of metaphor and emerging affective structures shaped by digital life and ambient crisis (e.g., “brainrot”); and cross-disciplinary collaborations under several parafictional and collective identities, including the counter-architectural firm The Institute for Improvisational Infrastructures, the artist collective nonhumanities (with Anna Hogg and Katie Baer Schetlick), and various performed personae in public spaces.

You can find Cheung’s CV here, and you can reach them at conradcheung@ufl.edu.