BANK is proud to participate in the upcoming Art Basel Miami Beach, where we will feature a solo presentation of the late Ching Ho Cheng's most outstanding and distinctive work: his gouache and the psychedelic series.
This special exhibition precedes Ching Ho Cheng's upcoming retrospective at the Addison Gallery of American Art in Spring, 2026. The Addison will be presenting Cheng’s first major institutional retrospective, conceived at a moment of fervent reconsideration of this unique artist's formerly overlooked oeuvre. A monograph made in collaboration with Visual AIDS will accompany the Addison exhibition.
Born in Havana, Cuba in 1946 to a family of diplomats, Cheng moved to New York with his parents in 1951. Cheng went on to graduate from the Cooper Union in 1968, as one of the few Chinese students the institution at the time. He became a fixture of the downtown art scene of the 1970s and 80s; a revered, talented, but quirky local presence. Cheng resided at the Chelsea Hotel from 1976 until his untimely death in 1989.
His work is in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, LACMA, the Cleveland Museum of Art, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum among other prestigious institutions. Miles Davis, Princess Caroline of Monaco, Ossorio Alfonso, and other cultural dignitaries have collected his visionary work.
