Born 1995, Vancouver, Canada
Raised in Hong Kong
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Education

2026 MFA Photo/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 Visions of Love (Solo) – Main Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
2024 14 Portraits (Group) – The REEF LA, Los Angeles, CA

Awards & Fellowships

2024 Davis Putter Scholarship, Jessie Lloyd O’Connor Scholar
2023 The Forge, Creative Writing for Organizers Certificate
2023 Greenpeace, Arts for Liberation Training
2023 NPNA URGENT Fellowship
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

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

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.

Professional Experience

Communications Manager – Housing Now! California
Digital Organizer – California Immigrant Policy Center
Union Organizer – UAW 2865, UAW 2103