Shu Lea Cheang was born in Taiwan.
Once a new York based installation artist/filmmaker/media activist, now a cyberhomesteader managing a digital existence. Selected works: [1990] <<Making News/Making History>>, ICA (Boston, USA);<<Color Schemes>>, Whiteny Museum of American Art (New York, USA);[1991] <<The Airways Project>>,Capp Street Project (San Francisco, USA); [1993] <<To Enter>>, The Final Frontier Exhibiton, The new Museum of Contemporary Art(New York, USA); <<Those Fluttering Objects of Desire>>, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art(New York, USA); [1994] <<Fresh Kill>>, feature film, premiered at Berlin International film Festival; [1995] <<Fresh Kill>>, Whitney Biennial; [1996] <<Elephant Cage Butterfly Locker>>, Atopic Site Exhibition (Tokyo, Japan); [1997-98] development with the Guggenheim Museum, SoHo (New York. USA), among others. Her science-fiction digital movie "I.K.U." is showing in Shibuya, Tokyo, from May 3, 2001.

Exhibitions
2001 SciFi Digi Porn, Julia Friedman Gallery (solo exhibition) Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, SpainBaby Play, InterCommunication Center (ICC), Tokyo (solo exhibition)IKU Stripped, Women Art Network, TokyoI.K.U. (screening) Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH2000Taipei Fine Art Museum Biennale

2000FLUID, The Project, New YorkCARRYON, Media Arts & Research Studies (MARS), Institute for MediaCommunication, Bonn, GermanyI.K.U., 90:00, a Japenese Sci-Fi Porn Digi Movie, an Uplink Production, Tokyo, Premiere, Sundance Film FestivalI.K.U. (screening), ICA, London

1999-98 Brandon, Guggenheim Museum, SOHO, co-production with Banff Center for the Arts, Canada, DeWaag, Society for Old and New Media, Amsterdam

1997 Buy One Get One, ICC Biennale, Tokyo, Japan (award, catalogue)

1996 Elephant Cage Butterfly Locker, Atopic Site exhibition, Tokyo

1995 Fresh kill, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New YorkBowling Alley, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

1994 Fresh Kill, feature film, premiered at Berlin International Film Festival

1993 To Enter, The Final Frontier Exhibition, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New YorkThose Fluttering Objects of Desire, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1992 Those Fluttering Objects of Desire, Exit Art, New York1991 The Airwaves Project, CAPP Street Project, San Francisco, California

1990 Making News/Making History, ICA, Boston, ICP, New York

1981-1990A producing member of media collectives, Paper Tiger TV & Deep Dish TV

2000 Chua, Lawrence, "An Odd Circuit," Art Asia Pacific, Fall edition.

1997 Kroker, Arthur and Marilouise. "Web Delerium, The Okinawa Project."Digital Delerium. New York: St. Martin's Press.

1996 Furlong, Cindy. "Gender Bending, Works of Shu Lea Cheang." CollegePress.

1995 Asai, Takashi. "Fingers and Kisses." Dice, Japan. Nakamoto, Akio. "Shu Lea Cheang." Wired Japan

1994 Chua, Lawrence and Hagedorn, Jessica. "A Dialogue on Fresh Kill." Bomb, New York.

1993 "Whitney Biennal." Art Forum, April.

1992 Highs, Kathy and Cheang, Shu Lea, eds/ "Shot/Reverse Shot, A Cross Circuit Videologue." Felix, New York.

1991 Howell, John, ed. "Breakthroughs, Avant Garde Artists in Europe and America,

1950-1990." Wexner Center for the Arts, New York: Rizzoli.