The College of Southern Nevada, School of Arts & Letters, and Department of Fine Arts will host a solo exhibition of large-scale mixed media paintings, installation, and work on paper by Hong Kong-born, Las Vegas-based artist, and CSN adjunct Fine Arts Faculty, Sapira Cheuk. Sapira Cheuk: Transmitting Figures opens Friday, February 27, 2026, and runs through Saturday, May 2, 2026, in the Fine Arts Gallery on the North Las Vegas Campus of the College of Southern Nevada. A special Gallery Talk and Artist Reception, with refreshments, will take place on Wednesday, April 1, 2026, at 6:00 pm.
Sapira Cheuk is an ink painter and installation artist interested in proprioception, ways of knowing through the body, and how these modes of knowledge reflect or internalize external experiences. Cheuk’s work often utilizes a blend of sumi and India ink, symbolizing the mixture of her identities.
Cheuk has exhibited in numerous shows, including at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Royal Society of Art, London, UK, the Center for Contemporary Art, Texas, Pablo Center for the Arts, the Masur Museum, and the Yellowstone Art Museum. Sapira works for the Nevada Arts Council, teaches at the College of Southern Nevada, and serves as an Art Commissioner for the City of Las Vegas Art Commission. She served as the art editor for the Museum of Americana from 2021 to 2024 and as a reviewer for the National Endowment for the Arts grants and programs for the past three years. She was inducted into the California State University, San Bernardino, Alumni Hall of Fame in 2026 for her achievements in the arts. Cheuk received her BA at the University of California, Riverside, and her MFA from California State University, San Bernardino.
Describing her artist process, Cheuk says, “I am interested in proprioception, ways of knowing through the body, and how these modes of knowledge reflect or internalize external experiences. My works seek out instances where the process of experiencing ultimately results in understanding and knowledge, which stems from physical bodily events. My interest originates from the dynamics of interpersonal memories and has since evolved into themes such as aesthetic labor and ownership; physical isolation, and virtual connections; and cellular alterations through trauma, and psychological recoveries. While these ideas tend to be wide-ranging, my aesthetic choices are firmly based on ink and paper.”
“As I was born in Hong Kong, Chinese Sumi painting aesthetics and materials heavily influenced my practice. The ink used is a specific blend of soluble and insoluble inks to create the effects characteristic of my work. The smooth gradation and abrupt fractures that exist simultaneously in each figure represent my experiences as an immigrant, negotiating two different cultures, values, and operating systems.”
The CSN Fine Arts Gallery is free, family-friendly, and open to the public. Gallery hours are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The Fine Arts Gallery is located adjacent to the Nicholas J. Horn Theatre Lobby on the North Las Vegas campus, located at 3200 E. Cheyenne Avenue, one mile East of I-15 North.
For more information, please call (702) 651-4146
http://www.csn.edu/artgallery
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