Dony Cheng

Dony Cheng Hung

Inspired by the manmade nature and sense of alienation the artist experienced in Hong Kong, Cheng's multidisciplinary practice recurringly reveals the complex of light, shapes, and spaces.

Cheng Hung (Dony Cheng) lives and works in Hong Kong. She is a recipient of the 19th Hong Kong Arts Development Award for Young Artist (Visual Arts) (2025) and a studio grant at HART Haus.

Selected Media Features
Selected projects

Education

Master of Fine Arts, the Chinese University of Hong Kong (2 years)
2023

Degree of Bachelor of Arts, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Major in Fine Arts
2017

Solo Exhibitions

“Finding Rest on the Highway”, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong
2024

“Late Night Minibus Ride”, ACO space, Hong Kong
2021

"The Night Observer”, Yen Ben Contemporary, Taiwan

2021

"The Sunset Lasts Forever", a.m.space, Hong Kong
2020

"Maybe Someday It Will be True", Solo Exhibition, a.m. space, Hong Kong
2018

Selected Group Exhibitions

“The Archivist Augurs, the Larper Dreams”, Square Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2024

“Nature: a Perception”, HART Haus, Hong Kong
2024

“Fluid Maze”, Woaw Gallery, Hong Kong
2024

“Seeing Inside, Seeing Outside”, MFA Graduation Exhibition, Art Museum, CUHK, Hong Kong
2023

“Where Great Minds Shine”, Arts Pavilion, West Kowloon Cultural District, Hong Kong
2023

“Confluence of Voices”, Pao Galleries, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
2023

“Lost in Translation”, Galerie du Monde, Hong Kong
2023

“Elaboration of the reflected lights”, Duo solo exhibition, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong
2022

“Emo Gym”, JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
2022

“High Res Worlds” – Gok Dou Live, Asia Society, Art Central, Hong Kong
2021

“Shining Moment”, Tang Art Foundation, Hong Kong
2021

“Door”, the Shop House, Hong Kong
2021

“Tomorrow is never a new day”, Negative Space, Foo Tak Building, Hong Kong
2020

“Matter”, Seoul Auction Hong Kong, H Queen’s, Hong Kong
2019

“Fresh Trend 2017”, Art Graduates Joint Exhibition, chi K11 art space, Hong Kong
2017

“Lightness/ Distance/ Intervention/ Cycling/ Mapping”, Hui Gallery, CUHK, Hong Kong
2017

“Nothing’s Gonna Change My Love for You”, BA Graduation Exhibition, Art Museum, CUHK, Hong Kong
2017

Awards and Grants

HKADC Award for Young Artist (Visual Arts)
2025

Studio Grant, HART Haus, Hong Kong
2024

WMA Graduate Awards (Lens-based media),MFA Grad Show, CUHK
2023

Emerging Artist Scheme - Exhibition Funding from HKADC
2020

Fresh Trend Art Award, Fresh Trend
2017

Grotto Fine Art’s Creative Award, CUHK
2017

Art Rescidencies

“Door”, the Shop House, Hong Kong
2021

Tresure Hill Artist Village, Taipei
2018

Selected Press and Media Features

South China Morning Post, What the Hong Kong Arts Development Awards Need to Learn from Art Basel
2025

ArtAsiaPacific, “New Currents: Dony Cheng Hung” by Alex Yiu — Featuring stills and commentary on The Landscape of the World of Straight Lines
2024

Artomity, Folio, Summer Issue — Hong Kong
2024

Ming Pao, 三十而立：在光暗黑白中找尋自己 — 專訪畫家鄭虹（Dony）
2022

Ming Pao, 鄭虹在平凡的東西找到靈感放慢節奏享受創作過程
2021

City Magazine, Issue 534 (April 2021): “The Night Watcher Seeks the Exit of Light” — Text by Samwai Lai
2021

Sample Magazine, Art Project Feature — Hong Kong
2020

Public and Collaborative Art Projects

InnerGlow Searchlight, Video Projection, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
2025

Open the Box: Home Sweet Home, onsite collaborative art project with lead artists, JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
2024

55 Squared, Unfurling the Scroll of Time and Space, commissioned wall art project, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong
2020

Selected Art Fairs

Art Basel, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong
2025

Supper Club, HART Haus, Hong Kong
2025

Westbund, Gallery Exit, Shanghai
2024

Art Basel, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong
2024

Supper Club, the Shophouse, Hong Kong
2024

Asia Now, the Shophouse, the Monnaie de Paris, Paris
2023

Art Basel, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong
2023

Taipei Dangdai, Gallery Exit, Taipei
2023

Art Basel, Gallery Exit, Hong Kong
2022

SELECTED PROJECTS

Selected painting works 2025

Electric Stillness, 2025
Acrylic on canvas, 90 × 120 cm

Exhibited at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025

Photo by Irene Chui, courtesy of Tai Kwun

Landscape in the World of Straight Lines, 2
2025

InnerGlow Searchlight Programme, Tai Kwun, D Hall Side Wall
Realised with technical support from The Electric Canvas and yucolab

Landscape in the World of Straight Lines is a site-specific projection work exploring the language of geometry in the built environment. Inspired by the contrasts between architecture and the natural horizon, the piece considers how straight lines shape our perception of space and movement. Installed on the exterior wall of D Hall, the work casts temporal lights that merge imagined landscapes with the contours of the city, inviting passersby to pause and look upward.

Landscape in the World of Straight Lines, 1
2024

Video installation, projection, acrylic panels, acrylic, charcoal and soft pastel on canvas

Nature: a Perception, curated by Humble Researchers
Supported by HKADC, venue sponsored by HART Haus

Drawing from aesthetics of techno-nature, literature, geology and ecology, this work envisions a fossilised future overtaken by ‘straight lines’—a world stripped of all organic forms. This seemingly dispassionate imaginary hints at our ecological neglect. Through projection, structural fragments and diagrammatic marks, Cheng constructs a suspended landscape between the artificial and the sublime.

Selected painting works 2024

Hidden Cubes in the Air, 2024
Charcoal, soft pastel, pencil, acrylic on canvas, 80 x 100 cm

Exhibited in The Archivist Augurs, The Larper Dreams at Square Street Gallery

Photo courtesy of Gallery EXIT

Finding Rest on the Highway
2024

Installation view of solo exhibition at Gallery Exit, Hong Kong.

Photo courtesy of Gallery EXIT

Seeing Inside, See Outside
2023

MFA Graduation Exhibition, CUHK, Hong Kong

Final showcase of a two-year MFA programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong

Courtesy Tai Kwun Contemporary. Photo: Kwan Sheung Chi.

Emo Gym
2022

Group Exhibition curated by Erin Li, JC Contemporary, Tai Kwun, Hong Kong

Reflective Lake (left) , 2021
Acrylic, musou black, charcoal and soft pastel on canvas, 146 x 124 cm
Commissioned by JC Contemporary

Road (right), 2021
Charcoal, soft pastel and pencil on canvas, 65 x70 cm

Photo courtesy of Gallery EXIT

Elaboration of the Lights
2022

Installation view of duo solo exhibition in Gallery Exit, Hong Kong

Photo courtesy of Benny To

Late Night Minibus Ride
2021

Solo Exhibition at ACO Space, Foo Tak Building, Hong Kong
Supported by HKADC and venue sponsored by ACO

Image courtesy of Tai Kwun, from video documentation

Unfurling the Scroll of Space and Time
2020

"55 Squared" Project at Tai Kwun, invited artist. a seasonal initiative to activate the outdoor space in Tai Kwun and to engage creatively with the visitors.

The Sunset Lasts Forever
2020

Solo Exhibition, a.m. space, Hong Kong

“Sunset as a place” (2020)
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