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Ian Cheng first stu­died co­gni­ti­ve sci­ence in Ca­li­for­nia be­fo­re swit­ching to ar­tis­tic prac­tice in New York. The de­ve­lop­ment of li­ve si­mu­la­ti­ons—a di­gi­tal pro­cess for the pro­duc­tion of po­ten­ti­al­ly in­fi­ni­te and un­pre­dic­ta­ble ani­ma­ti­ons—is at the heart of his works.Their cour­se is cal­cu­la­ted in re­al ti­me so that image and sound are de­for­medand trans­for­med li­ve. The ani­ma­ted li­ve si­mu­la­ti­ons re­pre­sent a pos­si­bi­li­ty to re­think the re­la­ti­ons­hip bet­ween hu­ma­ni­ty and the en­vi­ron­ment, as well as to play­ful­ly ma­ke (un-) ima­ginable evo­lu­ti­ons tan­gi­b­le.

Cheng lives and works in New York. Currently he is presenting a new series of work in his solo exhibition Emissary in the Squat of Gods at Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin (2015). Recent solo exhibitions include: Real Humans, with Wu Tsang, Jordan Wolfson, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf (2015); Ian Cheng, La Triennale di Milano, Milan (2014); Baby feat. Bali, Standard (Oslo), Oslo (2013); Entropy Wrangler, Off Vendome, Düsseldorf (2013); Too Humans All Too Humans, Vanity, Los Angeles (2013); and This Papaya Tastes Perfect, Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club, Miami Beach (2011). Recent group exhibitions include: Taipei Biennial – The Great Acceleration, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei (2014); Phantom Limbs, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London (2014); chatbots, tongues, denial, and various other abstractions, Bortolami Gallery, New York (2014); Season Eight: Pierre Huyghe, The Artist’s Institute, New York (2014); 12th Lyon Biennial – Meanwhile, suddenly, and then, Le Sucriere, Lyon (2013); Freak Out, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York (2013); ProBio, Expo1, MoMA PS1, New York (2013); and A Disagreeable Object, SculptureCenter, New York (2012).