American and British, born Mexico City
1970. Currently lives and works in New York.
Public Collections
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami,
FL
Davis Museum and Cultural Center,
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College,
Hanover, NH
International Center of Photography, New
York, NY
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Museum of Contemporary Photography,
Chicago, IL
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San
Francisco, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa
Barbara, CA
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Selected Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Horizons. Yossi
Milo Gallery, New York
Horizons. Herzliya
Museum of Contemporary Art, Israel
History Images. Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006
History Images.
Yossi Milo Gallery, New York
2004
History Images.
Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York
Group Exhibitions
2008
Picturing Modernity. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Depletion: Works from the Doron Sebbag Art
Collection. Tel Aviv Museum of Art,
Tel Aviv.
Street Art, Street Life. Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY. Curated by
Lydia Yee.
2007
An Atlas of Events. Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon.
Curated by António Pinto Ribeiro, Debra Singer, and Esra
Sarigedik.
Urban Landscapes. David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University,
Providence RI. Curated by Vesela Sretenovic.
China Past/Present. Lamont Art Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy,
Exeter NH.
The Big Picture. North Carolina Museum of Art.
Feast & Flux. Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM.
Altered States: Views of Transition in
Recent Photography. Tufts
University Art Gallery, Medford, MA. Curated by Alicia
Cornwell.
On the Wall: Aperture Magazine
‘05–’06. Aperture
Gallery, New York.
2006
Landscape: Recent Acquisitions. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
New Photography: Photographs by Taryn
Simon, Sze Tsung Leong, Ruth Dusseault, and Angela West. High Museum of Art, Atlanta. Curated by
Julian Cox.
IX Bienal de La Habana: Dynamics of Urban
Culture. Centro de Arte
Contemporáneo Wifredo Lam, Havana, Cuba. Catalogue.
Cities, Architecture, Society: the 10th
International Venice Architecture Biennale. Curated by Richard Burdett. Catalogue.
Spectacular City: Photographing the
Future. Netherlands Architecture
Institute, Rotterdam and NRW Forum, Düsseldorf. Curated by
Emiliano Gandolfi. Catalogue.
2005
Beyond Delirious: Architecture in Selected
Photographs from the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection. Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami.
Curated by Christopher Phillips. Catalogue.
Convergence at E116/N40, Beijing. 798 Dayaolu Workshop, Dashanzi Art District,
Beijing. Curated by Feng Boyi.
Celebrating Twenty Years: Gifts in Honor
of the Hood Museum of Art. Hood
Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover NH. Catalogue.
The City: Contemporary Views of the Built
Environment. Lehman College
Art Gallery/CUNY, Bronx, New York. Curated by Nina Sundell and
Susan Hoeltzel.
Get It Louder. OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen; CITIC Square,
Shanghai; Xingfucun Art Center, Beijing. Catalogue.
2004
Taipei Biennial: Do You Believe in
Reality? Taipei Fine Arts Museum,
Taiwan. Curated by Barbara Vanderlinden and Amy Huei-Hua Cheng.
Catalogue.
Between Past and Future: New Photography
and Video From China. International
Center for Photography, New York. Curated by Christopher
Phillips and Wu Hung. Catalogue. Travels to Smart Museum of Art
and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Seattle Art Museum;
Haus der Kulturen Welt, Berlin; Victoria & Albert Museum,
London; Santa Barbara Museum of Art.
2002
Painting as Paradox. Artists Space, New York. Curated by Lauri
Firstenburg. Catalogue.
Awards and Fellowships
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
Fellowship, 2005
New York State Council on the Arts Grant,
2005
Eisner Prize in photography, University of
California at Berkeley, 1993
Monographs
Horizons. (New
York: Yossi Milo Gallery, 2008). Exhibition catalogue.
History Images. (Göttingen: Steidl, 2006). Includes essays by
Stephen Shore and Sze Tsung Leong.
Selected Bibliography
Articles, reviews, and essays
2008
Art News: “Horizons”
exhibition review by Barbara Pollack (June 2008), p. 132.
The New Yorker: “Goings on About Town: Sze Tsung Leong”
exhibition review (April 28, 2008), p. 12.
The New York Times: “Keeping His Eye on the Horizon (Line)” by
Philip Gefter (April 6, 2008), p. AR30. Also published in The International Herald Tribune: “Leong on the Horizon: Framing Limits and
Possibilities” (April 5-6), p. 17.
Art Review: “Global
Drift: Sze Tsung Leong” by Catherine Spencer (April
2008), p. 30.
2007
Portfolio: “Sze
Tsung Leong: History Images” by Nigel Warburton (no. 45,
June 2007), p. 4–17.
Afterimage:
“The Obliteration of History” (book review of History Images) by
Vanessa Rocco (vol. 34, no. 6, May/June 2007), p. 32.
Süddeutsche Zeitung: “Neue Heimat” (exhibition review of Spectacular City) by
Manfred Schwarz (29 January 2007), p. 11.
American Photo: “Revisionist History” (book review of History Images) by
Russell Hart, in “The 10 Best Photography Books of the
Year” (January–February 2007), p. 98–99.
2006
Photo International: “Geschichte im Abriss” (book review of History Images) by
Hans-Michael Koetzle (November–December 2006), p.
50–55.
Art Review: “Sze
Tsung Leong” (Special Focus: Art Photography) by Norman
Bryson (October 2006), p. 69.
Artforum: “History
Images” exhibition review by David Frankel (September
2006), p. 376–377.
The New Yorker: “One If By Land” Critic’s
Notebook exhibition review by Vince Aletti (August 21, 2006),
p. 16.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “Large-format works capture how time
shapes people, places” by Catherine Fox (August 6, 2006).
The New York Sun: “Framing the Wild” by William Meyers
(August 3, 2006).
The New Yorker: “Goings on About Town: Sze Tsung Leong”
exhibition review (May 15, 2006), p. 17.
The New York Times: “Art in Review: Sze Tsung Leong — History
Images” by Roberta Smith (April 28, 2006), p. E37.
Condé Nast Traveler: “Photographs of a Changing Asia”
(May 2006), p. 59.
Artforum.com: “Critics’
Picks” review by Brian Sholis (April 2006).
Art Papers: “Sze
Tsung Leong” by Lisa Kurzner (Jan–Feb 2006), p.
53–54.
2005
Douglas Dreishpoon, “Persistent
Walls,” in Gao Minglu ed., The
Wall: Reshaping Contemporary Chinese Art (Buffalo, NY, and Beijing: Albright-Knox Museum
and Millennium Art Museum, 2005), p. 31–32.
The Los Angeles Times: “China as a Gallery of Contrasts” by
Suzanne Muchnic (October 16, 2005).
The Times (London):
“Is China Beginning to Show New Cracks?” by Morgan
Falconer (Sept 10, 2005).
Flash Art: Taipei
Biennial exhibition review by Susan Kendzulak (Jan–Feb
2005), p. 50.
2004
Art Journal: “Drastic
Urbanization: The Photographs of Sze Tsung Leong” by
Christopher Phillips (Winter 2004), p. 20–21.
Art Asia Pacific: “History Images” exhibition review by
Christopher Lew (Fall 2004), p. 83–84.
Art on Paper:
“History Images” exhibition review by Stephen Robert Frankel
(November/December 2004), p. 81.
Art World (Shanghai):
“History Images” exhibition review by Yu Miao
(December 2004), p. 20–21.
Artforum.com: “Critics’
Picks” review of “History Images” exhibition
by Michael Meredith (July 2004).
The New York Times: “Art Guide” review of “History
Images” exhibition by Ken Johnson (June 25, 2004), p.
E34.
The New Yorker: “Between Past and Future” exhibition
review (July 28, 2004), p. 20.
Work published
2008
T: The New York Times Style Magazine. (Travel Spring 2008 issue), p. 134–135.
The New York Times Magazine (June 8, 2008), pp. 70–1,
73–5.
2007
Blind Spot: “Horizons,”
(no. 34), unpaginated.
Dwell: “Record
Time,” (April 2007), p. 168–173.
Topos: “Spectacular
City,” (no. 58, 2007), p. 58–59.
2006
Ventiquattro (Il Sole 24 Ore, Milano):
“La Città—Spettacolo” portfolio (2
December 2006), p. 144.
T: The New York Times Style Magazine: “The Other Great Wall” by Joseph
Kahn (Travel Fall 2006 issue), p. 124–125.
Exit: “Ruins”
(No. 24, 2006), p. 102–105.
Spectacular City: Photographing the
Future, edited by Emiliano Gandolfi
(Rotterdam: NAi Publishers, 2006), p. 61–64.
Totalstadt: Beijing Case, edited by Gregor Jansen (Köln: Walther
König, 2006), p. 124, 127, 203.
Aperture: “History
Images” artist portfolio (Summer 2006), p. 46–53.
2005
Beyond Delirious: Architecture in Selected
Photographs from the Ella Fontanals Cisneros Collection. (Miami: Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation,
2005), p. 52–55.
Celebrating Twenty Years: Gifts in Honor
of the Hood Museum of Art. (Hanover,
New Hampshire: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 2005), p.
100–101.
About Beauty, edited
by Akbar Abbas and Wu Hung (Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt,
2005), p. 150–151, 177–183.
Here: “The
Traditions of Chinese Cities,” p. 82–86.
Urban China (Beijing):
“Prologue to 2010” (April 2005), p. 2–5.
2004
Between Past and Future: New Photography
and Video From China, edited by
Christopher Phillips and Wu Hung (New York and Göttingen: International
Center for Photography and Steidl, 2004), p. 100–101.
Art Journal: “History
Images” artist portfolio (Winter 2004), p. 19–45.
34: “The
Big Tease” by Tina di Carlo (Winter 2004), p.
34–37.
Aperture: “Between
Past and Future” exhibition review by Andy Grundberg
(Winter 2004), p. 14.
Taipei Biennial: Do You Believe in
Reality?, edited by Barbara
Vanderlinden and Amy Huei-Hua Cheng (Taipei: Taipei Fine Arts
Museum, 2004), p. 118–123.
Modern Art (Taipei):
2004 Taipei Biennial portfolio (October 2004), p. 38–39.
Dwell: “Between
Past and Future” (September 2004), p. 44.
Art in America: “Sixty Ways of Looking at China” by
Richard Vine (June/July, 2004), p. 126.
2002
Painting as Paradox, edited by Lauri Firstenburg (New York: Artists
Space, 2002).
Writings published
“A Picture You Already Know,”
published in www.wordswithoutpictures.org (August 2008).
“Uncertain Distances,”
published in Horizons (New York: Yossi Milo Gallery, 2008).
“A History of Erasure,”
published in History Images (Göttingen: Steidl, 2006), p.
138–141.
“History Images,” in Aperture (Summer
2006), p. 46–49.
“The Authority of Beauty,” in Yishu (Spring 2006),
p. 13–16.
“The Authority of Beauty,” in About Beauty, edited
by Akbar Abbas and Wu Hung (Berlin: Haus der Kulturen der Welt,
2005), p. 177–181.
“The Traditions of Chinese
Cities,” 32 Beijing / New
York (Winter 2004).
“On The Ground: Beijing,” Artforum (December
2004), p. 88.
“Representing the Almost Nothing:
The Drawings of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe,” in Conventions of Architectural Drawing:
Representation and Misrepresentation, edited by James Ackerman and Wolfgang Jung
(Cambridge, MA: Harvard Design School, 2000), p. 182–199.