Artists

Carl Cheng

Press release

Nature Never Loses surveys six decades of the prescient, genre-defying practice of artist Carl Cheng (b. 1942, San Francisco; lives and works in Santa Monica), whose ever-evolving body of work engages with environmental change, the relevance of art institutions to their publics, and the role of technology in society. His inventive lexicon includes photographic sculptures, 'art tools' employed in the production of ephemeral artworks, 'nature machines' that anticipate an artificial world shaped by humans, and extra-institutional interventions intended to reach broad audiences. Carl Cheng: Nature Never Loses is organized by The Contemporary Austin in partnership with the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Bonnefanten, Maastricht; Museum Tinguely, Basel; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.