“The light will continue. It is eternal. A light bulb will die but there will always be light. A match will die but there are stars and new stars to be born.” — Ching Ho Cheng
This exhibition will give long-overdue recognition to the Cuban-born, Chinese American artist Ching Ho Cheng (1946–1989), whose boundary-defying and conceptually driven practice offers profound insight into the very nature of being. The Light Will Continue, the artist’s first posthumous institutional exhibition and retrospective, will, for the first time since Cheng’s untimely passing in 1989 from causes related to HIV/AIDS, present the full scope and breathtaking originality of his oeuvre, laying bare the artist’s relentless sense of experimentation, meticulous craftsmanship, and prolonged engagement with the metaphysical.
The exhibition will be accompanied by a scholarly catalogue co-published by the Addison and Visual AIDS.
Major support for Ching Ho Cheng: The Light Will Continue is provided by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and by a grant from the Henry Luce Foundation.
