Cheney Thompson (1975) is a painter who lives and works in New York. His projects often span several years and investigate both the medium of painting and the larger systems of circulation that paintings inhabit. Thompson mines the histories of modernism in his work, critiquing how images have been produced, displayed, and circulated in today’s art market.

Solo Exhibitions

The Brno House of Arts, Brno, Czechia, with Sam Lewitt (2017)
Cheyney Thompson The Completed Reference: Pedestals and Drunken Walks, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany, 2012
Cheyney Thompson: metric, pedestal, landlord, cabengo, recit, curated by João Ribas, MIT Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Massachusetts 2012

Group Exhibitions:

Invisible Adversaries: Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 2016
Money, Good and Evil. A Visual History of Economics, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany, 2016
A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions, SFMOMA, San Francisco, 2016
Materials and Money and Crisis, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria, 2013
the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2008

Thompson’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Centre Pompidou, Paris, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, SFMoMA, San Francisco, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.