Julietta Cheung
Julietta Cheung is an artist with a text-based and language-inspired practice. Her work draws from her experience as a second language user and her background in design. Through textual appropriations, typographic experimentations, reading performances, and sculptural works, Cheung unmakes and remakes the terms and objects of contemporary American culture to examine their collective fabulations. Her work has been published, performed, and exhibited in various venues across the United States. These include Kenning Editions, tripwire: a journal of poetics, Creative Capital's On Our Radar!, the Poetry Foundation, the Chicago Cultural Center, the Chicago Artists Coalition, and many other independent venues across the U.S. This fall, Cheung will unveil a new work in the streets of Chicago, courtesy of the Roman Susan Art Foundation in partnership with the Chicago Architecture Biennial. Prior to her current role as an assistant professor in Contemporary Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Cheung taught text-based art at Florida State University. She earned her MFA in Studio Art from SAIC as a recipient of the Art Institute of Chicago Trustees Merit Scholarship.
La obra de Julietta Cheung parte desde su experiencia como hablante de una segunda lengua y su trabajo previo con el diseño. A través de apropiaciones textuales, experimentación tipográfica, performances de lectura y trabajos con escultura, Cheung deshace y rehace los objetos y términos de la cultura americana contemporánea para examinar sus fabulaciones colectivas. Su obra ha sido publicada, realizada y exhibida en diversos foros en los Estados Unidos. Estos incluyen Kenning Editions, tripwire: a journal of poetics, Creative Capital's On Our Radar!, Poetry Foundation, el Centro Cultural de Chicago (Chicago Cultural Center), el Chicago Artists Coalition, entre otros. Este otoño, Cheung revelará una nueva pieza en las calles de Chicago, cortesía de la Fundación de Arte Roman Susan (Roman Susan Art Foundation) en colaboración con la Bienal de Arquitectura de Chicago (Chicago Architecture Biennial). Antes de su rol actual como profesora asistente en Prácticas Contemporáneas en la Escuela de Arte del Instituto de Chicago, Cheung enseñaba arte basado en texto en la Universidad del Estado de Florida. Recibió su MFA en Studio Art por parte del SAIC como beneficiaria de la beca al mérito del Instituto de Arte de Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago Trustees Merit Scholarship).
