Shu Lea Cheang

Shu Lea Cheang is an artist and filmmaker. Her genre-bending, gender-fluid practice challenges existing structures and the limits imposed on individuals by society, the environment, politics, and the economy. Her project BRANDON (1998–1999) established her as a pioneer of net art: it is the first online artwork commissioned and collected by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York. Cheang’s feature-length films FRESH KILL (1994), IKU (2000), and FLUIDø (2017) collectively helped define a new genre of queer sci-fi cinema. In 2019, Cheang represented Taiwan at the 58th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, with her work 3x3x6. Since 2009, Cheang's practice has been set in a post-internet-collapse fictional BioNet world, exploring themes of viral love, bio-hacking, and queer and anti-colonial imaginations.