Ching Ho Cheng: Luminous Life and Legacy

Please join BANK NYC for a panel discussion on the life and artistic legacy of cultural luminary, Ching Ho Cheng. This panel talk coincides with Cheng’s solo exhibition, Tracing Infinity, at BANK’s NYC pilot space from May 2 - June 14, 2025.

Their panelists, Sybao Cheng-Wilson, Director of the Estate of Ching Ho Cheng, Gordon Wilkins, Robert M. Walker Curator of American Art at the Addison Gallery of American Art, and Kyle Croft, Executive Director of Visual AIDS, will contextualize Cheng’s work within the rich New York art scene of the 1970s and 1980s and offer critical perspectives on his practice as a prolific Asian American and LGBTQ artist.

This panel discussion precedes Cheng’s inclusion in Sixties Surreal at the Whitney Museum of American Art in Fall 2025 and his upcoming traveling retrospective, Ching Ho Cheng: The Light Will Continue, which will originate at the Addison Gallery of American Art in early 2027. This will be Cheng’s first major institutional retrospective, which fervently reconsiders this Asian American artist’s often overlooked life and body of work. It will also be accompanied by a monograph published in collaboration with Visual AIDS.