Covey Gong

For our third presentation, The Room of Spirit and Time will display a new installation by Covey Gong. Gong's work is often concerned with the circulation and staging of cultural signifiers within the context of material culture. Expanding upon recent projects exploring the mis-en-scene of Puccini's opera Turandot, at TRST he continues to critically investigate how monumental architecture and seemingly benign design motifs function within the affective dramaturgy of touristic consumption and cultural chauvinism.

Covey Gong (b. 1994, Hunan, China) lives and works in New York. He completed his Bachelor of Fine Arts at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois. Gong's solo and two-person shows include: Bel Ami, Los Angeles (2024, with Monique Mouton); SculptureCenter, New York (2024); Derosia, New York (2023); Lubov, New York (2022, with Eli Ping); And Now, Dallas (2019); Bodega (Derosia), New York (2019); Salt Projects, Beijing (2018-19). Recent group exhibitions include: The Hollow and the Receptive, ADZ, Lisbon (2024); Double Threshold, Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown (2024); To Breathe, To Walk, Murmurs, Los Angeles (2024); Leaking Heaven, Laurel Gitlen, New York (2023); Under the Volcano II, Lomex, New York (2022); When the World Becomes Flesh, Baader Meinhof, Omaha (2022).