CYRUS TANG | EXHIBITION at BUNDOORA HOMESTEAD
ECLIPSED PRESENCE
📅 30 Nov 2024 - 22 Feb 2025
📍Bundoora Homestead Arts Centre
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Eclipsed Presence has evolved from a residency that the artist recently undertook in Morocco. During her time there, she was inspired by the Amazigh people and their unwavering commitment to handmade crafts. They continue to spin, dye wool and knit sweaters by hand, not merely as a nostalgic gesture, but as a living tradition that embodies their cultural identity and resilience. Their approach challenges us to reconsider the worth of the handmade in a world increasingly dominated by the digital and the disposable.
This new video installation explores these themes, bridging the gap between what has been lost and what can be reclaimed, illuminating the enduring relevance of traditional crafts in a contemporary context.
CYRUS TANG & JOHN YOUNG feature in exhibition at Chau Chak Wing Museum
NOW OPEN
Cyrus Tang and John Young are featured in the exhibition 'The trace is not a presence ...' at the Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney.
Through the hands of five Australian artists from different Chinese diasporic communities, The trace is not a presence … highlights both the active process of making, and the experience of transcending the past towards a present that is not immediately identifiable and complete.
THE TRACE IS NOT PRESENCE...
📅 Open from 24 August 2024
📍China Gallery, Chau Chak Wing Museum, Sydney
IMAGE
CYRUS TANG
‘The Final Cast Off (Alice Lim Kee and Daisy Kwok)’, 2016-2017
2 channel video projection on Chinese paper scroll
JOHN YOUNG
‘Times Slow Passing #1’, 2023,
Etching and photolithography
44cm × 38cm (sheet)
CYRUS TANG is a finalist in the National Works on Paper (NWOP) award
Cyrus Tang is a finalist in the 2024 National Works on Paper award, with the tactile work 'Embrace - mother', part of her Embrace series. 2024 NWOP exhibition will be held at the Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery from 31 August – 24 November 2024, with the winner announced on Saturday 31 August.
Congratulations Cyrus!
CYRUS TANG Awarded Nawat Fes Residency in Morocco
From March to May this year, Cyrus Tang will be undertaking the Nawat Fes Residency in Morocco. The program seeks to cultivate understanding across cultures through the exchange of ideas, and allows artists from around the world.
Cyrus notes, "I am honoured to be one of eight awardees from among 133 applicants from 41 countries. Nawat Fes is the fully funded residency program of the American Language Center Fes / Arabic Language Institute in Fez, a member of the American Cultural Association (ACA). I would also like to thank City of Melbourne Quick Response Arts Grants, who also contributed funding to this residency."
CYRUS TANG & JOHN YOUNG Feature in 'Assembly' at ANU
Opening tonight! 🥂 CYRUS TANG and JOHN YOUNG are part of a must-see group exhibition called 'Assembly' at The Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) at ANU from 5:30–7:15pm.
Curated by Dr Olivier Krischer, 'Assembly' brings together eight Hong Kong-born artists from different generations of the diaspora. Amid the current wave of migration, this exhibition explores the act of ‘making sense’ of layers and fragments, of memories and stories, told or untold. 'Assembly' embraces the resonance and dissonance between the diverse creative practices of these artists, questioning readymade notions of diasporic identity.
IMAGE: Cyrus Tang, In memory’s eye, we travel…, 2016, 3 channel HD video, 8.38 min loop
CYRUS TANG's solo exhibition opens at Hawthorn's Town Hall Gallery
Twenty years of Cyrus Tang's practice is being celebrated in The Memory Palace, an exhibition at Hawthorn's Town Hall Gallery from July 26 to 21 October 2023.
Tang is fascinated by the paradox of reconstructing ephemeral mental images and sensations in permanent materials. The result is hauntingly beautiful works that often memorialise collective experiences.
CYRUS TANG named as a finalist in the Omnia Art Prize
IMAGE: CYRUS TANG, Tree Study – 5 (print only), 2022, pigment print, edition of 5, 100 x 67.5 cm
CYRUS TANG's stunning work, 'Tree Study 5', was selected as a finalist in the Omnia Art Prize.
Sunday and Monday, 21-22 May are the last two days to see the Omnia. Since its beginnings in 1971, the event has grown in significance and popularity to become one of Australia’s premier art awards and exhibitions.
CYRUS TANG Artist Talk NGV Melbourne Now
ARTIST'S TALK
For the opening weekend of Melbourne Now, CYRUS TANG will be in conversation with Susan van Wyk, Senior Curator of Photography, at the National Gallery of Victoria. Join Tang as she discusses her recent body of work 'Tree Studies'.
FREE TALK. All welcome: Sun 26 Mar, 11.45am – 12.15 pm, Exhibition Space, Level 2. See the @ngvmelbourne website for more details.
OPENING: NATURE KNOT
OPENING TONIGHT
NATURE KNOT: what does it mean to be tied, bound, connected, tangled with nature?
An exhibition of work tethered to the natural world. Humans create knots to secure and to hold onto things tightly. But the natural world hates constraints and resists our desire to ensnare.
Featuring ARC ONE Gallery’s Cyrus Tang, Honey Long & Prue Stent, joined by Marina Rolfe, the 2022 recipient of the ARC ONE Artist Opportunity
All welcome. OPEN from 6PM, Wednesday, 8 February.
CYRUS TANG selected for Melbourne Now 2023
ARC ONE is delighted to announce that Cyrus Tang has been selected by the National Gallery of Victoria for 'Melbourne Now' 2023. Congratulations Cyrus!
Celebrating new and ambitious local art and design, 'Melbourne Now' will cross a range of contemporary disciplines including fashion and jewellery, painting, sculpture, architecture, ceramics, video, performance, printmaking and publishing.
The inaugural 2013 exhibition was an unprecedented survey of some of the most exciting local contemporary practitioners. Ten years on, Melbourne Now 2023 will again highlight the latest art, architecture, design, and cultural practice shaping Melbourne.
Bold in scale, Melbourne Now will be displayed throughout all levels of The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, including permanent collection galleries, showcasing new works and commissions by emerging, mid-career and senior practitioners as well as local collectives.
'Melbourne Now' will run from 24 March - 20 August 2023 at The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia, Fed Square
Opening of the BOWNESS PRIZE Exhibition
JANET LAURENCE, HONEY LONG & PRUE STENT, CYRUS TANG and LYDIA WEGNER feature in this years Bowness Prize exhibition.
Over the last 17 years, the William and Winifred Bowness Photography Prize has emerged as an important annual survey of contemporary photographic practice in Australia and one of the most prestigious prizes in the country.
Available to view at The Monash Gallery of Art until November 13.
Installation images courtesy of Monash Gallery of Art, photographed by Andrew Curtis.
Congratulations to ARC ONE Bowness Photography Prize Finalists!
CONGRATULATIONS are in order!
Janet Laurence, Cyrus Tang, Lydia Wegner, Honey Long and Prue Stent have all been shortlisted for the prestigious 2022 Bowness Photography Prize.
The Bowness exhibition opens 29 September. However, if you can't wait that long, please visit ARC ONE where these fantastic artists are currently on display in our Viewing Room.
CYRUS TANG at MGA fundraiser
IMAGE: CYRUS TANG, Escalator: from the series Remember me when the sun goes down, 2020, Pigment inkjet print, 93.5 x 139.0 cm
We are thrilled that CYRUS TANG’S work ‘Escalator’ is up for auction at MGA’s annual fundraiser.
All funds raised will help shape the future of photography in Australia.
Auction to be held by @smith_singer at 7pm on May 31, 2022
Address: 500 Chapel St, South Yarra, Vic, 3141
Find out more information about the auction HERE
CYRUS TANG in The National Works on Paper Prize
CYRUS TANG Almost Home - 2, 2022, pigment print on cotton rag, mounted on dibond, 80 x 80 cm
Congratulations to CYRUS TANG. From 982 applicants, her photographic work Almost Home has been shortlisted for the 2022 National Works on Paper Prize to be held this August at Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery.
Almost Home was selected by a judging panel including Clothilde Bullen (Head of Indigenous Programs and Initiatives and Curator of Indigenous Art, AGWA), Max Delany (Artistic Director and CEO, ACCA) and Jenna Lee (artist, NWOP finalist 2020)
CYRUS TANG in the Sovereign Asian Art Prize
IMAGE: CYRUS TANG, 'Carriage', 2021, Pigment print on dibond, 100 x 67.5cm.
CYRUS TANG has been shortlisted in The Sovereign Asian Art Prize, with her work 'Carriage'.
The prize aims to increase international exposure of artists in Asia-Pacific, will also raising funds to bring the therapeutic benefits of art to disadvantaged children in Hong Kong.
'Carriage' will be on display at Art Central in Hong Kong
from 26 - 29 May 2022. You can view the artworks online and vote for your favourite on The Sovereign Art Foundation’s website, link in their bio @sovereignasianartprize.
CYRUS TANG in the Wyndham Art Prize
CYRUS TANG, 'Burning Ritual', 2021, Pigment print on cotton rag, 90 x 90cm.
Selected out of 560 artwork entries, CYRUS TANG has been named as a finalist in the 2022 Wyndham Art Prize with her work 'Burning Ritual'.
Featuring 84 shortlisted works the exhibition will run from 2 June - 7 August 2022 at Wyndham Art Gallery, with winners announced at the opening event 6:30 - 8:30pm June 2, 2022.
CYRUS TANG at Linden New Art for PHOTO 2022
IMAGE: Cyrus Tang, 'Tree Study 2’ [detail], 2020-21, pigment print on cotton rag, Edition 5+2AP, 80 x 80cm.
CYRUS TANG's exhibition,'Time Fell Asleep in the Evening Rain’, opened on Friday 11 March at Linden New Art as part of PHOTO 2022.
Presenting a new series of photographic works and light boxes, Tang continues her exploration of time and memory in the context of the pandemic in this exhibition.
‘Time Fell Asleep in the Evening Rain’ continues until 5 June.
CYRUS TANG IN CONVERSATION WITH ART COLLECTOR
Watch CYRUS TANG in conversation with Charlotte Middleton at Art Collector speak about ‘Power Cables’, one of Tang’s works from her upcoming exhibition 'Remember me when the sun goes down' at ARC ONE Gallery.
In the video interview, Tang discusses the fleeting and ephemeral qualities in her work, and the importance of our collective experience for remembering history.
Cyrus Tang, ‘Power Cables’, 2020. Archival pigment print, edition of 5 + 2 A/P, 67.5 x 67.5cm and 90 x 90cm.
CYRUS TANG SOLO SHOW AT INCINERATOR GALLERY
CYRUS TANG’s new solo show Sky Orchestra is now open at Incinerator Gallery.
Sky Orchestra is a project exploring Confucian values of filial piety through the lens of Chinese history and pop culture, and how it relates to the artist’s experience within a Western context. Through Sky Orchestra, Tang delves into the history and legacy of a poem by a well-known Chinese poet Su Shi of the Song Dynasty, whose words evoke the joys and sorrows of human existence from a Buddhist worldview.
Additionally, this project explores the power of music, which was believed to have great moral powers in ancient China. For Sky Orchestra, Tang revisits childhood memories and Confucian thought, with the resultant exhibition conveying themes of loss and renewal.
The exhibition will continue until 1 August.
CYRUS TANG'S WORK SUBJECT OF ARTICLE ON COBO SOCIAL
Diego Ramirez has penned an insightful reflection on CYRUS TANG’s artwork ‘Power Cables’, a finalist exhibition of the @sovereignasianartprize. Published on @cobosocial, Ramirez writes:
“[Cyrus Tang’s] migratory experience inspires much of her practice, where memory is a ruin that she reconstructs in labour intensive processes. Her body of work ‘Remember me when the sun goes down’ (2020) looks at the empty streets of Vermont and the city of Melbourne area during lockdown as an elegy for the future, documenting the social wreckage of COVID-19.
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![Cyrus Tang, Remember me when the sun goes down: Power Cables [detail], 2020, archival pigment print, 90 x 90 cm.](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/54012345e4b0f72d40b6c44e/1622422950417-IDKU23DB10X6H8CJ9KBX/Remembering-me-when-the-sun-goes-down-_Power-Cables_Detail.jpg)
Cyrus Tang, Remember me when the sun goes down: Power Cables [detail], 2020, archival pigment print, 90 x 90 cm.
These are the optical traces that collectively form the impression of a blurry memory, a strategy that characterises Tang’ oeuvre, where mental images seem to find form on paper.
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By photographing locations for extended periods of time, then compositing all images into a single frame…the mundane becomes fantastical.”
Read the full article here >