Artist Shu Lea Cheang wins 2024 LG Guggenheim Award
Taiwanese American artist Shu Lea Cheang has won the 2024 LG Guggenheim Award for spearheading internet art and conducting diverse artistic experiments with new technologies, LG Group said Tuesday.
A pioneer of internet art, she is best known for her achievements in the early days of the internet back in the 1990s. She has since expanded his expertise into more tech-converged art fields by utilizing virtual reality and coding. The artist has focused on exhibiting her art mostly in the United States and Europe after receiving a master’s degree in cinema studies from New York University in 1979.
She also worked as a film director, and comprehensively covered digital and installation art during her career of more than three decades. The artist is staying in Paris for the time being.
“The LG Guggenheim Award revives an honorable tradition of the electronic industry’s support for art and technology,” Shu Lea Cheang said.
“To be recognized by an assembly of diverse jury members grants me tremendous confidence in continuing and expanding my art practice. I thank all my collaborators on every one of my projects,” she said.
LG Group also spoke highly of her pioneering and experimental spirit in modern art.
“LG is delighted to join the Guggenheim in honoring Shu Lea Cheang with the second LG Guggenheim Award,” Seol Park, head of brand management at LG, said.
Looking through her oeuvre, one can observe many of the themes that recently entered today’s technological discourses, such as data, decentralized networks, and gamification, have long been central to her artistic inquiry, according to Park.
Her representative eight art pieces are in the collections of globally renowned museums, such as New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Whitney Museum of American Art.
LG Group has teamed up with the Guggenheim Museum to award contemporary artists who have served as particularly good models in the overlapping fields of art and technology.
The company and the museum will continue to select only one artist per year for the award until 2027, in a display of respect to passionate artists here and abroad who have dedicated their lives to modern art.