Project 2024: Landscape 1

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

Landscape in the World of Straight Lines
Version 1

Landscape in the World of Straight Lines, 1
2024

This videowork was first exhibited as a video installation in Nature: a Perception, curated by Humble Researchers (June 2024).

It was later shown in The Archivist Augurs, The Larper Dreams at Square Street Gallery, Hong Kong (July 2024), accompanied by two related paintings (can be found here).

Following this exhibition, the work was featured in ArtAsiaPacific’s “New Currents: Dony Cheng Hung” by Alex Yiu, which included stills and critical commentary.

The piece was also selected for InnerGlow 2025, where it was further developed into a second version as an outdoor video projection at Tai Kwun.

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.

Special thanks to Kyle Chau, 六木 ROKU MOKU, Aenon Loo for their technical support.

The Archivist Augurs, The Larper Dreams

“The title of the exhibition borrows from Tay’s 2024 video work Emulator, which will also be included in the exhibition. By working with Hong Kong philosopher Yuk Hui’s essay “For a Planetary Thinking” (2020), the exhibition brings together a group of artists engaged with a skeptical framework as they question the prescriptive paradigms with which we approach technology and its relationship to the material world.

Since the industrial revolution, and the ensuing globalization, our relationship with technology follows a particular logos; a machine completes a task it was produced to complete. Drawing upon what German philosopher Martin Heidegger called Gestell or “enframing,” Hui argues that this logos closes off the possibility of technology, and thus fits within the model of accelerationist development that has been decided and laid out for us. He suggests instead that the challenge to such models can be found in artmaking, wherein the enframing of the same technology used to facilitate the flow of capital breaks its relationship with instrumentalisation, opening it up to risk and alterity. This exhibition thinks through this approach to technology through the works of four artists.“