Sophie Hing-Yee CHEUNG is an artist, writer, poet, and disability rights activist. She received Bachelor of Arts (Fine Art) of RMIT University, a programme co-presented with Hong Kong Art School, majoring in Painting. She obtained a Diploma in Fine Art at Hong Kong Art School (2007) and a Certificate in Visual Arts at The Art School, Hong Kong Arts Centre (2004). Currently, she is finishing the MA Applied Anthropology and Community Arts in Goldsmiths, University of London. Cheung is a life-long advocate for disability rights, having worked as community developer in an NGO in mainland China, and a contributor to the implementation of United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). In 2015, Cheung published a book ‘Disabilities CV: The Stories of the Persons with Psycho-social Disability in Hong Kong’《殘疾資歷:香港精神障礙者文集》that examines and re-conceptualizes the multi-faceted meanings of disability and the disability experience in an attempt to effect a paradigm shift towards social inclusion, challenging the dichotomous relation between “barriers” and “resources”. As an artist, Sophie is intrigued by the theme of freestanding – to treat objects as subjects. Her practice is informed by the concept of the subjectile a paradoxical fusion of both subject and object. Cheung presents mundane tools such as erasers, pens, or newspapers as metamorphic objects that possess subjective integrity. Therefore, she seeks to articulate problematic aspects of subjective status by adopting a creative process that presents subjective integrity as if it is contiguous with objects as the exploration of painting or drawing materiality, as well as her instruments to bring out in-betweenness of construction and deconstruction. On the other hand, Sophie is an award-winning artist - obtaining significant art awards in Hong Kong including The First- Runner up of Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize 2018, presented by Justice Centre Hong Kong and supported by European Union Office of Hong Kong & Macau. Currently, she is represented by a significant art gallery Ora-Ora in Hong Kong.

Art Awards

2018
The First- Runner up of Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize 2018, presented by Justice Centre Hong Kong and supported by European Union Office of Hong Kong & Macau

2017
The Leap Initiative Hong Kong Emerging Artist Award and the 2017 Art Next Hong Kong Artists Award (Bronze) of the Art Next Expo 新藝潮 2017, Hong Kong

Solo Art Exhibition

2018
Soften Stones 柔軟的石頭, PRÉCÉDÉE, Hong Kong
Selected Art Group Exhibition

2020

Stains of Time, Group Exhibition by Night Fung, Sophie Cheung and Michelle Lie, Gallery HZ, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong, 29 oct - 21 Nov 2020
HKFOREWARD20, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong
2019
Moot Point 不定點, Art & Culture Outreach (ACO) 藝鵠, Hong Kong

Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize x Eaton HK (six winners’ group exhibition), Tomorrow Maybe, Hong Kong

Dec 2018 – Jan 2019
Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize 2018 Shortlisted Art Exhibition, The Hive Spring, Hong Kong

2017
Museum of Lost Public Notices Poster Exhibition, George Paton Gallery, Melbourne University, Melbourne