Dony Cheng Hung





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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
CV




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 
“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 FeaturesSouth 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



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Last Updated 24.10.31
Finding Rest on the Highway, 2024
在公路上尋找休息, 2024





Finding Rest on the Highway
2024“Finding Rest on the Highway” is Dony Cheng Hung’s solo exhibition at Gallery EXIT, presenting a series of recent paintings, animations, and installations.

Expanding on ideas from her earlier exhibitions, Cheng transforms the gallery into a conceptual landscape that moves from light into darkness. Her work strips urban structures into abstract forms—cubes, pillars, reflections—set against vast skies, plant-like sculptures, and black lakes, evoking both future and primal worlds. Through the interplay of surface, projection, and light, Cheng invites viewers to step off the straight path of modern life and enter a liminal space where rest, imagination, and the search for essence take place.

More info on Gallery Exit’s site here.
Selected painting works exhibited



Artificial Nature in the Window
2023

Acrylic and musou black on canvas
80 x 80 cmExhibited in Finding Rest on the Highway, 2024





Between the Extended Pillars
2023

Acrylic and musou black on canvas
120 x 90 cm
Exhibited in Finding Rest on the Highway, 2024






Botanical Forms Submerged in Shadow 
2023

Acrylic and musou black on canvas
80 x 70 cmExhibited in Finding Rest on the Highway, 2024






Connecting Three Artificial Plants
2023

Acrylic and musou black on canvas
130 x 140 cmExhibited in Finding Rest on the Highway, 2024






No Escape from the Sun
2023

Acrylic and musou black
90 x 100 cmExhibited in Finding Rest on the Highway, 2024






The Barrier to the Sky
2023

Acrylic and musou black on canvas
50 x 70 cmExhibited in Finding Rest on the Highway, 2024






The Spirit of Highway
2024

Acrylic on aluminium panel
60 x 50 cmExhibited in Finding Rest on the Highway, 2024






Instead of the Plants 
2023

Acrylic and musou black on canvas
90 x 120 cm
First exhibited in Seeing Inside, Seeing Outside (2023), and later in Finding Rest on the Highway (2024)






Merged Texture 
2023

Acrylic and musou black on canvas
90 x 120 cm
First exhibited in Seeing Inside, Seeing Outside (2023), and later in Finding Rest on the Highway (2024)






Shadows of the light on the Lake 
2023

Acrylic and musou black on canvas
80 x 80 cmExhibited in Finding Rest on the Highway, 2024





Thickness, 2023

Acrylic and musou black on canvas
80 x 70 cmFirst exhibited in Seeing Inside, Seeing Outside (2023), and later in Finding Rest on the Highway (2024)






Spotting the Wrong Light 
2023

Acrylic and musou black on canvas
100 x 140 cmExhibited in Finding Rest on the Highway, 2024



Videowork exhibited



The World of Straight Lines – Highway/Road 2024, 
Single-channel animation, 2’06”

Transcript of the video

If we only observe the lights: the Sun, the Moon, the Stars, the unstable light sources had us transform them into more efficient versions of city lights. To be efficient, one of the most common practice, is borrowing the idea of drawing a straight line - to connect two points at the shortest distance. Any curved lines would be a waste a time or effort.如果僅觀察我們世界中的光：太陽、月亮、星星，這些不穩定的光源， 誘發了城市的光的產生，成為更高效率的光源。追求效率的其中一個常見做法，是借用畫一條直線的概念 — 以最短距離連接兩點。任何曲線都將是浪費時間或精力。

If we only observe the shadows in our world, the shadows of animals, plants, us, we look alike because of our organic forms. Without functionality, shadows seem to capture some of purest aspects of things. From the start of us using straight lines, building walls, windows, had introduced rigid lines for shadows. Soon we live in the world of straight lines.如果僅觀察我們世界中的陰影: 動物、植物和人類，我們因共同擁有有機型態而看起來相似。陰影沒有太多功能性，似乎能夠捕捉到事物最純粹的一些方面。從我們開始使用直線，建造牆壁、窗戶開始，就為陰影引入了剛性線條。很快，我們就生活在直線的世界中。
To travel from one point to another, drawing the line in the shortest distance in the city, we have tunnels and highways. When the only meaning between connecting two points is merely connecting two points, the time spent in between became obstacles.從一個點移動到另一個點，隧道和高速公路為我們在城市裡畫出兩點中間最短距離的線。當連接兩點之間的唯一意義僅僅是連接兩點時，移動的時間便成為了障礙。
Inspired by the curved lines, the lines built for motion and changes, a “road” differ from highway: “A road is a tribute to space.  Every stretch of road has meaning in itself and invites us to stop.” To stop between a straight line is to create rhythms/ motions, it is our natural state of having a curvy shaped- shadow sip through and escape the pattern.受到曲線的啟發，一條顯示運動和變化的線：一條“道路”，它有別於高速公路：“道路是對空間的致敬。每一段路都有其獨特意義，並邀請我們停下來。” 在直線之間停下來是為了創造節奏，動感，或改變，這是我們具有曲線形狀的自然狀態，讓陰影穿過並逃離這種模式。

Installation view




Photo courtesy of Gallery EXIT


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