Conrad Cheung      is an artist, writer, and educator working across installation, performance, architecture, video, VR, and more. Drawing on histories of institutional critique, experimental architecture, and alternative theater, their practice engages the politics of place, public life, and knowledge systems. It traces, in particular, the operations of the built environment — how it governs bodies, encodes ideological norms, and materializes claims to sovereignty and difference, structuring the terms of livability across people, states, and species.

In response, Cheung constructs alternative infrastructures — spatial, social, and procedural — that unsettle dominant logics of use, access, and control, and ask what else might be possible within or beyond those terms. Their work is grounded in a commitment to expanding the conditions under which publics — human and nonhuman, emergent and illegible — can assemble, contest, and endure. Mobilizing strategies of participation, parafiction, and site-specificity, it stages speculative commons and partial collectivities across scales of the built and the felt — not to seek solutions, but to prototype sites of mutual unmaking and cohabitation.

Cheung is Assistant Professor of 3D + Extended Media in the School of Art + Art History at the University of Florida. Previously, they taught at the University of Virginia, where they served as Head of Sculpture from 2022 to 2024, and at Colorado College. They hold an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago as the 2021 Eldon Danhausen Fellow in Sculpture, as well as a BFA in Ceramics and a BA in Philosophy from Alfred University. Cheung has exhibited in the US, Canada, France, and China, at venues including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Mana Contemporary, the New York State Museum, and the Monira Foundation.

Current projects include public work with cultural and ecological organizations in Florida; long-form essays in cultural criticism on the ethics of metaphor and emerging affective structures shaped by digital life and ambient crisis (e.g., “brainrot”); and cross-disciplinary collaborations under several parafictional and collective identities, including the counter-architectural firm The Institute for Improvisational Infrastructures, the artist collective nonhumanities (with Anna Hogg and Katie Baer Schetlick), and various performed personae in public spaces.

You can find Cheung’s CV here, and you can reach them at conradcheung@ufl.edu.