Born 1995, Vancouver, Canada
Raised in Hong Kong
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
2026 MFA Photo and Media – California Institute of the Arts
2020 MA Latin American Studies – University of California, Los Angeles
2017 BA Communications – University of California, Los Angeles
Selected Exhibitions
2025 MFAs of LA (Group) - Goodmother Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2025 Abolish ICE Mercado (Group) - Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2025 Visions of Love (Solo) – Main Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2024 14 Portraits (Group) – The REEF LA, Los Angeles, CA
Professional Affiliations
LA LGBTQ+ Arts and Culture Coalition Artist Member
Awards & Fellowships
2025 Alumni Councilmember, Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice, CUNY
2025 The Bartman Fund
2024 Davis Putter Scholarship, Jessie Lloyd O’Connor Scholar
2023 Arts for Liberation Training Certificate, Greenpeace
2023 URGENT Fellowship, National Partnership for New Americans,
2022 National Equity Atlas Fellow, PolicyLink & USC Equity Research Institute
2022 Emerging Leaders Fellow, Leadership for Democracy and Social Justice, CUNY
2020 Organizing Mutual Aid Award, UCLA Institute on Inequality and Democracy
2020 Monica Salinas Research Fellowship, UCLA
Speaking Engagements
2025 California Institute of Technology Guest Lecture - “Thinking about Art and Immigration”
2023 UAW Region 6 Civil Rights Conference – “Region 6 Civil Rights Conference on Immigrant Rights”
2021 Open Borders Conference – "Abolitionist Alternatives to Legalization"
2021 Lausan Collective – “We Connect: Hongkongers and Migrant Rights Activists in Conversation”
Selected Publications
2025 LGBT Heritage Month Cultural Calendar and Cultural Guide, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
2020 Cheung, Nathan. Lives in Transit: Violence and Intimacy on the Migrant Journey. Latino Studies 18, 143–145.
2020 Cheung, Nathan. Mobility Justice: The Politics of Movement in an Age of Extremes. The AAG Review of Books 8:3, 138-139.
2019 Cheung, Nathan. On Site, In Sound: Performance Geographies in América Latina. Antipode.