Artist / Sam Cheng
Sam Cheng (b.1989), graduated from the Fine Arts Department of CUHK with BA first-class honour, she specialises in still life and landscape paintings, in which she expresses her feelings towards daily objects.
When painting, she usually experiences a kind of meditation, which is a process of self-precipitation and healing. By combining the precise and meticulous gongbi technique (traditional delineative painting) and the depiction of modern subjects to convey her personal feelings, there is a sentimental quality in her modernised ink paintings. She uses linear lines to define the subject forms in her stories; applies ink washes to render layers of feelings and varies the shades of colours to empower the expression of emotions. Cheng creates her own visual vocabulary for expression of feelings, presenting a trinity of harmony formed by contemplative ink strokes, pastel shades and modulating lines.
Cheng has won the Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Creative Award, Culture Corner Art Academy Fine Arts Award, and the Ting Yen Yung Creative Award for her artworks. She has held numerous solo exhibitions, joint exhibitions, and art fairs in both her local area and Taiwan. Her works are mostly held in private collections.
EDUCATION
2014 Bachelor of Arts, Major in Fine Art (First Class Honor), The Chinese University of Hong Kong
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 "Tranquility of Spring", Touch Gallery, Hong Kong
2019 Tick Tock: Sam Cheng Solo Exhibition, Sansiao Gallery HK, Hong Kong
2015 Memories in Time: Ink and Colour Paintings Solo Exhibition by Cheng Tan Shan Yan Gallery, Hong Kong
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 “Botanical Evocations” Touch Gallery HK
2023 "Space", PMQ, Hong Kong
"Huai", Galerie Koo, Hong Kong
2022 Transcending the Gongbi Tradition: Contemporary Hong Kong Fine-Brush Painters,
Hong Kong Land, Exchange Square, Hong Kong
2021 Shadow Borer, Daguan Gallery, Taipei
Déjà vu, Daguan Gallery, Art Taipei 2021, Taipei
2020 Memory of Time, Yan Gallery, KC100 Art Space, Hong Kong
2019 Art Taipei 2019, Taipei
2018 Crisscrossing Through Time and Space – Contemporary Hong Kong Ink Art, Daguan Gallery, Taipei
Ink Asia 2018, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
First Open Auction, Christie’s, Hong Kong
HOMMAGE Joint Exhibition, Sansiao Gallery, Hong Kong
2017 The Passion of Discovery II, Grotto x CUHK Grads, Hong Kong
2016 Fine Art Asia, Yan Gallery, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
2015 Ink Asia, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
2+2 Joint Exhibition, EC Gallery, Hong Kong
Affordable Art Fair, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
2014 Hong Kong Women in Ink, Fine Art Asia 2014, Joint Exhibition Presented by Ink Society, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Fine Art Asia 2014, Joint Exhibition Presented by The Chinese University of Hong Kong,Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre
Fresh Trend Joint Exhibition, Hong Kong City Hall
AWARDS
2014 Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Award in CUHK BA Graduate Exhibition
Culture Corner Art Academy Fine Arts Award in CUHK Undergraduate Exhibition
2013 Ting Yen Yung Creative Award in CUHK Undergraduate Exhibition
COLLECTION
Ch'ien Mu Library, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Private collection