Stephanie Cheung and Kingsley Ng are frequent collaborators in interdisciplinary art projects. Their practice situates art in the everyday. Spending time with their cat Whisky is a very high priority.
Stephanie Cheung works primarily as a curator specialising in interdisciplinary, site/context-specific, process-based and participatory projects in communities and public space. She approaches curating as a practice of care and responds to social and environmental challenges with lively syntheses of art and the everyday. With a PhD on participatory art, agency and worldmaking (University of the Arts London), she sees her practice as critical cultural production.
In her capacity as Lead Curator of Hong Kong-based non-profit Make A Difference Institute, she has steered Tin Shui Collaborative (2014), which celebrated the resilience of disenfranchised communities in a challenged local market; Hi! Hill—Art in-Situ (2018), addressing the notion of “home” through co-creation with residents of a 600-year-old village; Peoples’ Art Connective, a multi-tier undertaking on cultural inclusion; Minna no Tsukemono (2024-26), a community-grounded project ruminating on time and preservation, etc. Under her stewardship, the Institute has twice received the Hong Kong Arts Development Council Arts Promotion Award.
Her independent curatorial portfolio includes After the Deluge (2017), an immersive installation reflecting on urban development and sunken histories in a monumental underground stormwater tank; Secret Garden (2018), which turned a heritage mansion into a set for a part-real, part-fiction narrative; The Practice of Everyday Life (2020), a walk-the-talk exhibition about sustainable living; Aria (2020), a pandemic-responsive promenade performance through a night-time greenhouse in the heart of the city; Before a Passage (2021), an orchestration of art, music, dance and literature at the poignant site of an idled pier; On the Plain of Plenty (2024), an “Arts in the City” programme savouring connections between people and the land through artistic renderings of food.
Stephanie also writes critical and creative texts. Her scholarly writings were published in journals such as CAA Reviews, Asian Art News, World Art and academic anthologies. Her text installations were presented in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, the UK, America and Canada. An avid art educator, she currently teaches discipline-crossing courses at the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University and Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts. She received an Asian Cultural Council Fellowship in 2015.
Kingsley Ng is an interdisciplinary artist and designer with a focus on conceptual, site-specific and participatory projects. He believes art helps us mediate our environments. Like the grazing of the wind against grass, these mediations are about experience as well as emotions. They reveal the invisible and give shape to the intangible. Kingsley’s practice is driven not by a self-indulgent romance of art, but a belief that art can be socially relevant. Art provides a language to render social issues alive and meditate ideas and impressions that can engage across a larger public.
After his BFA in new media art at Ryerson University, Canada, Kingsley received postgraduate training at Le Fresnoy–National Studio of Contemporary Arts in France under the tutelage of renowned artists including Alain Fleischer, Andrea Cera, Atau Tanaka and Gary Hill and graduated with the highest honours (les felicitation du jury à l’unanimité). He continued his studies with an MSc Sustainable Design degree from the University of Edinburgh in the UK.
Kingsley’s works have been featured in notable institutions and international exhibitions, such as the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Museum of Contemporary Arts in Rome, Guangzhou Triennial in China, Land Art Biennial in Mongolia, Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial in Japan, Lille Europe Pavilion in Shanghai Expo, InterAccess Electronic Media Arts Centre in Canada, the Hong Kong Museum of Art, Art Basel Hong Kong, among others.
Kingsley has received numerous grants and awards, including the Hong Kong Arts Development Council Best Artist Award in Media Arts 2014, Asia Cultural Council Fellowship 2013, Hong Kong Contemporary Art Biennial Awards 2009, Hong Kong Young Design Talent Award 2008, the Hong Kong Independent Short Film and Video Gold Medal Award 2007, the Canada Council for the Arts–Travel Grants to Media Artists 2006, and the InterAccess Visual Arts Award 2003. He was an artist-in-residence at Cité internationale des arts in Paris in 2010. He is currently Associate Professor at the Hong Kong Baptist University Academy of Visual Arts.
