BOB
January 31 — March 23, 2019
New York: 21st Street
Gladstone is pleased to announce an exhibition by Ian Cheng, the artist's debut with the gallery, and the United States premiere of BOB (Bag of Beliefs). The first in a new series of artificial lifeforms, BOB takes the form of a chimeric branching serpent.
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About
© Ian Cheng
Ian Chen (b. 1984, Los Angeles) lives and works in New York. Previous solo exhibitions include: Worlding, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (2022); Life After BOB, Light Art Space, Berlin, Germany (2022); Life After BOB, The Shed, New York, US (2021); Life After BOB: The Chalice Study, Luma Westbau, Zürich, Switzerland (2021); Life After BOB: The Chalice Study, Luma Arles, Arles, France (2021); Emissary Trilogy, Fundación Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Madrid (2020); Emissary Forks at Perfection, Espace Louis Vuitton Venezia, Venice (2018);* Ian Cheng Emissaries*, Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin (2018); Ian Cheng, Serpentine Gallery, London (2018);* Emissaries*, MoMA PS1, New York (2017); Forking at Perfection, Migros Museum, Zurich (2016); Emissary in the Squat of Gods, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2015). Previous group exhibitions include: Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy (2023); Beijing Biennial, Bejing (2022); Julia Stoschek Collection, Düssel-dorf, Germany (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2022); Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK (2022); Kadist x G Museum, Nanjing, China (2021); M+, Hong Kong (2021); Luma, Arles (2020); De Young, Fine Art Museum of San Francisco (2020); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2019); Venice Biennale (2019); MoMA, New York (2019); MAXXI, Rome (2018).
