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Coming soon

A new iteration of an older work will be presented in AACT's (Asian Arts & Culture Trust) online project, titled The Bitten Peach: Decolonizing Queer Asians. ​Stay tuned for update.

2023

 Study of Equivalent Relations (A Split Peach), Iteration 1 is featured in PhotoED Magazine's Digtial Edition: The Food Issue. See this free magazine via ISSUU link

CONTACT

 ericchengyang[at]gmail.com
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Instagram: @monkeywearstie
​Behance: behance.net/monkeywearstie

daohanfu.tumblr.com - solo fashion history project

BIO

Eric Chengyang (b. Guangzhou, China/PRC) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto. They works in the hybrid of traditional, digital, and ephemeral mediums including painting, photography, time-based media, design, and installation. By integrating visual storytelling with experimental, hybrid art forms, Eric explores themes of symbiotic duality and paradox. In particularly, their recent works center on the intersections and proximity between the East and the West, while challenge the conventional notion of “the East versus the West”, or East-West dichotomy.

​Besides a solo practice, Eric is also a part of a collaborative duo called the Dawat Yan Project, founded with artist Mariam Magsi.

EXHIBITIONS

Solo & Duo Exhibition

- As Individual -
2019 Dao: Duan-Xiu (Passage: the Broken-Sleeve) 道·斷袖, Trinity Square Video (TSV) Vitrine, Toronto (link)

2018 Purdah | Shui, a duo-show with Mariam Magsi, Glory Hole Gallery (Glad Day Bookshop), Toronto​

- As Dawat Yan Project -
2022 Dawat Yan Banquet , online digital project supported by AGO X RBC Artist-In-Residence program
​Selected Group Exhibition
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2019   Nuit Rose Arcade: Room for Shifting Expressions, curated by Critical Distance in partnership with Nuit Rose, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto (link)

2019   Salon 44, Gallery 44, Toronto

2018   Feelings, curated by Art Police Collective at VSVSVS Studio, Toronto, ON

2018   The W(Hole) Picture, a Nuit Blanche independent project/group exhibition, Canadian Lesbian Gay Archives & Glory Hole Gallery (Glad Day Bookshop), Toronto, ON

2018   Salon 44, Gallery 44, Toronto

2017   Salon 44, Gallery 44, Toronto

Student Shows - pre 2014

2014   Wall to Wall 35th Anniversary Edition, Gallery 44, Toronto
2014   Tri-City Stopgap presents Pop-Up Art Exhibition, 151 Weber St. S., Kitchener-Waterloo, ON
2013   Touched By Fire art show & sale, Artscape Wychwood Barns, organized by MDAO, Toronto, ON
2012   Youth Video On The Cube, Kitchener City Hall, organized by the City of Kitchener, ON
2011   Gathering group exhibition, Artery Gallery, Kitchener, ON
​2008   Arts Alive 2008 group exhibition, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, BC

Art RESIDENCY & Mentorship

2022   Dawat Yan Project at the AGO X RBC Emerging Artist-In-Residence Program, a digital art residency supported by the Art Gallery of Ontario

ARTIST TALK

2022   AGO X RBC Artists in Residence in Conversation: Dawat Yan Banquet, hosted by Art Gallery of Ontario
  • As the Dawat Yan Project with Niloufar Salimi, Karina Iskandarsjah, Abdullah Qureshi, and Ange Loft
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​2018    Purdah | Shui, a duo-show with Mariam Magsi, moderated by Emily Peltier, Glory Hole Gallery/Glad Day Bookshop, Toronto

Publication

2023   PhotoED Spring/Summer Digital Extra: The Food Issue - online edition (link)

AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS

2017   Finalist, 37th Annual Spring Photography Contest,  Photographer’s Forum magazine, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

2014   Finalist (college group), 34th College and High School Photography Contest, Photographer’s Forum magazine, Santa Barbara, USA

2012   Winner, Youth Video Competition 2012, organized by the City of Kitchener, ON

2012   Winner, “Capture the Campus” Photo Contest, organized by Alumni Affairs, University of Waterloo

2012   Digital Imaging Award, from Department of Fine Arts, University of Waterloo

​2009   Merit Scholarship, University of Waterloo

EDUCATION

2014   BA: Fine Art with Economics Minor, University of Waterloo, ON

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCES

2023-present   Gallery 44 | Centre for Contemporary Photography - Education Committee member

2019-2020   The Glory Hole Gallery: miniature gallery at The 519, Toronto - Collective & curatorial team member

2012-2013     Art in Context Internship at the Canadian Clay and Glass Gallery, Waterloo - Art instructor / Tour guide

2013-present     Freelane Photographer: event coverage, exhibition documentation, and photojournalism

​​​2012-present     Freelance Designer: graphic design, illustration, and video production