Amy Cheng was born in Taiwan, and raised in Brazil, Oklahoma, and Texas. She makes highly ornamented and layered mandala-like paintings in oil. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally and her work is held in a number of corporate and public collections. She has completed a number of public art commissions including a mosaic column at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, a painted ceramic mural at the Howard St. El Station in Chicago, faceted glass windscreens at the Cleveland Street Subway Station in Brooklyn, laminated glass windscreens at the 25th Avenue Subway Station in Brooklyn, two ceramic tile murals at the Lambert-St. Louis International Airport MetroLink Station, and a mosaic mural at the Jacksonville International Airport. She received a P.S. 122 Painting Center Fellowship in New York City for a 10-month residency in 2011-12, and a Senior Lecture/Research Fulbright fellowship to Brazil in 2008. She has been awarded two New York Foundation for the Arts Painting Fellowships, and an Arts International travel grant to China. She is a professor in the art department at the State University of New York at New Paltz.
Amy Cheng
Studios
Adams
Amy Cheng worked in the Adams studio.
Given to the MacDowell Association by Margaret Adams of Chicago, the half-timbered, stuccoed Adams Studio was designed by MacDowell Fellow and architect F. Tolles Chamberlin ca. 1914. Chamberlin was primarily a painter, but also provided designs for the Lodge and an early renovation of the main hall. The studio’s structural integrity was restored during a thorough renovation in…