| 1953 | Born in New York |
| Currently | Lives and works in New York |
| 2022 | Qualia Gallery, Palo Alto, California |
| 2020 | Abu Dhabi Art Fair 2 person |
| 2019 | Johanniterkirche, Feldkirch, Austria |
| 2017 | FromBelowToAbove, Pablo, Manila, Philippines Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York |
| 2015 | RoundSky, Shenzhen Art Museum, Shenzhen, China RoundSky, Paintings by Emily Cheng, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 2014 | Emily Cheng, Ille Arts, Amagansett, New York From Heaven to Earth, Da Wang Culture Highland, Shenzhen, China |
| 2013 | Emily Cheng, Zane Bennett Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
| 2011 | Charting Sacred Territories: Holy Morphosis, Museum of Contemporary Art, (Taipei MOCA), Taipei, Taiwan Meanders and Morphosis: Charting the Nature of Interior Spaces, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 2010 | Emily Cheng: Circle of Time, Espace Louis Vuitton, Kowloon, Hong Kong |
| 2008 | Across the Providence, Satori Gallery, New York, New York |
| 2007 | Emily Cheng Drawings, Timezone 8, Beijing and Shanghai, China |
| 2006 | CloudMistTree, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, New York LotusCloudTreeMist, Ayala Museum, Makati, Philippines |
| 2005 | Triple Candie, Facade Project, New York, New York Refresh!, 2 x 13 Gallery, New York, New York; curated by Lilly Wei |
| 2004 | Jewel in the Heart, Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York, New York; with Lois Conner |
| 2002 | Almost Mapped and Charted, Winston Wächter Fine Art, New York, New York Almost Mapped and Charted, Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 2001 | Emily Cheng, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri |
| 1998 | Emily Cheng New Paintings, Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1997 | Emily SyCip Cheng, Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines John Post Lee Gallery, New York, New York, Projects Room |
| 1996 | Configured: Paintings by Emily Cheng, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 1994 | Enigmatic Puzzles: A Melding of East and West, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; curated by Elaine King |
| 1993 | Emily Cheng, New Paintings, Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1992 | Emily Cheng, David Beitzel Gallery, New York, New York Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1990 | Emily Cheng, Lang & O’Hara Gallery, New York, New York Emily Cheng, Schmidt-Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 1989 | Recent Work by Emily Cheng, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, New York |
| 1988 | Emily Cheng, Lang & O’Hara Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1987 | Emily Cheng, Recent Work, Lang & O’Hara Gallery, New York, New York |
| 1985 | Emily Cheng, White Columns, New York, New York |
| 1983 | Pittsburgh Plan for Art, Pittsburgh, PA 55 Mercer Street Artists, Inc., New York, NY |
| 2020 | Physis, Hubei Triennial, Hubei Museum of Art, China, curated by Fu Xiaodong |
| 2019 | B.A.T. State II, SoLA Gallery, Los Angles, CA |
| 2019 | The Garden of Winter Light, Hanart Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 2017 | A Roaming Vision, Hanart Gallery, Art Basel, Hong Kong |
| 2016 | Self-Cultivation-The Personal Technology of Living, Ying Art Center, Shanghai, China |
| 2014 | Lange Nacht in den Gerichtshöfen, Gerichtshöfen, Berlin, Germany; curated by Sabin Flach Feral Objects, New York, New York; curated by Peggy Cyphers and Lucio Pozzi B.A.T., Off Ramp Gallery, Pasadena, California Inspired by Dunhuang: Re-creation in Contemporary Chinese Art, China Institute, New York |
| 2013 | Group show, Galería Juan Silió, Santander, Spain; curated by Kevin Power Group show, Bangkok University Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand |
| 2011 | Color and Line, Thompson Giroux Gallery, Chatham, New York Architectural Museography: Selected prints from El Nopal Press, Morono Kiang Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
| 2009 | Animamix, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China; curated by Victoria Lu and Pan Qing |
| 2008 | Farewell to Post Colonialism, Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China; curated by Johnson Chang, Sarat Maharaj, and Gao Shiming Mei Guo, Contrasts Gallery, Shanghai and Beijing, China; curated by Lilly Wei |
| 2007 | Year of the Pig, Elga Wimmer PCC, New York, New York |
| 2006 | Dragon Veins, USF Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida |
| 2005 | Group show, Hammond Museum, North Salem, New York Magic Gardens, Kidspace at MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts |
| 2004 | Hanart 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong The Annual, American Academy, New York, New York |
| 2003 | The Radical Line, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio; curated by Ethan Cohen |
| 2002 | Group show, DDM Warehouse, Shanghai, China Visual Dialogue, China 2000 Fine Art, New York, New Yorkk Long March Project, Maotai, China 2002 Asilah Summer Arts Festival, Asilah, Morocco, (large-scale outdoor mural) |
| 2001 | China without Borders, Sotheby’s, New York, New York |
| 2000 | Twice Born: Beauty, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; curated by Shelly Bancroft Abstraction in Painting, Castle Gallery, the College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, New York; curated by Lilly Wei What Goes Around, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Show, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York |
| 1999 | The Masters of Graphic Arts, International Biennial, Museum of Gyor, Gyor, Hungary |
| 1998 | Urban Encounters, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York |
| 1997 | 1997 Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina March Six, Ikon Gallery, Los Angele |
| 1996 | Special Exhibition: Iris Prints, LA Art Expo, Los Angeles, California Allegory and Identity, Visceglia Art Center, Caldwell, New Jersey New York, (3 person) Kunsthaus in Hofgarten, Munich, German |
| 1995 | Digital Dialects, New Paradigms, Creiger-Dane Gallery, Boston, Massachusett |
| 1994 | Couples, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, New York The Computer in the Studio, Computer Museum, Boston, Massachusetts New Old Masters, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California |
| 1993 | Exquisite Corpse, the Drawing Center, New York; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Appraising the Preternatural, Patricia Shea Gallery, Santa Monica, California |
| 1992 | Malta’s Cradle: Reflections on the Abyss of Time, Solo Press Gallery, New York Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina |
| 1990 | Group show, Mathew Scott Fine Art, Los Angeles, California |
| 1988 | Mutations, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, New York Imprimatur, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville, South Carolina; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina Double Visions, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York; Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx Council on the Arts, New York, New York; curated by Fred Wilson |
| 1986 | Small Scale Abstractions, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, New York Abstraction, Abstraction, Klein Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; curated by Elaine King |
| 1985 | Abstract Issues, Oscarson Hood Gallery, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, Sherry French Gallery, New York; curated by Steven Henry Madoff |
| 1984 | New Abstraction, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York, New York; curated by John Post Lee |