Cheng Ting Ting

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Cheng Ting Ting

Born| 1990

Sha Tin District, Hong Kong

Citizenship| Hong Kong
Education| BA in Visual Arts

Alma mater| Hong Kong Baptist University
Occupation| Contemporary artist
Website| chengtingting.com

Cheng Ting Ting (Chinese: 鄭婷婷; b. 1990) is a contemporary artist from Hong Kong[1]. Her oeuvre includes primarily oil paintings and drawings[2][3], but also prints[4], artists' books[5], collages and projections[6][7]. Cheng’s works are personal and often about memories from her childhood and adolescence, as well as sights and objects from her daily life[8][6][9]. She currently lives and works in Hong Kong and Norway, and is represented by Gallery EXIT

## Contents

* 1 Early life and education
* 2 Artistic practice
* 3 In the media
* 4 External Links
* 5 References

## Early life and education[edit]

Born in 1990, Cheng Ting Ting grew up in Sha Tin District of Hong Kong[2]. Cheng’s affinity for art began at an early age, and remained unabated as she continued to study visual arts in high school and university. As a third-year student, she went abroad for an exchange programme at Accademia di Belle Arti di Bologna, Italy—an experience that Cheng cited as having a significant impact on her road to self-discovery[7]. In 2013, Cheng graduated with a BA in Visual Arts from the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, winning the AVA Award at the graduation exhibition[1].

Cheng is a full-time artist with a studio in Fo Tan[7][10]. She worked briefly as a full-time assistant designer at a marketing and communications firm after graduation[7][11]. Apart from working at her studio, she also teaches art to young children ages two to four at Art in Hospital on a part-time basis[10].

## Artistic practice[edit]

Cheng draws inspiration from her daily life, and uses her personal experiences to reflect on and make connections to larger themes and questions of interest[8][7][10][12]. Her works often involve childhood and adolescent memories, and deal with feelings of isolation and detachment[2][3][8][9][13]. Painting from visual memory, Cheng employs dynamic brushstrokes and varied colour palettes to render depictions of people, objects and events onto the canvas[3][10][13]. Rather than realistic portrayals, she prefers conveying personal, surreal impressions of her subjects; as such, her works are often described as “autobiographical.”[3][9][10][13] According to the statement of her most recent solo exhibition Recipient Absent (2019), what Cheng “paints become tools to investigate her own condition and place in the world.”[9]

In an early solo exhibition Fall In Fall Out (2017), she explored the conflicting desires between individuality and social conformity[8][13], while in Enfante (2017), she examined the disconnect between her adult and younger self which she saw as separate entities. In the latter exhibition, her works also took on a child-like quality both in technique and colour, drawing upon her observations as an art educator for young children in conjunction with her own childhood memories[2][3][6][12].

Cheng chooses to paint in oil, because she enjoys its slow and abstract process, and its relative passivity compared to other art forms[2][3][12]. In an interview with CoBo Social, she explains: “...painting is passive, there is a safe distance between the art and viewer. Sometimes, with more conceptual art, you feel that the artist is trying to push you to look at the work through a certain prism.”[3] Of her painting process, Cheng describes, “I used to make rough sketches first; now, I directly create on the canvas, allowing my brush to outline the composition in step with my thoughts. My creations are formed in hindsight, and are not determined first by a theme or concept."[10] Cheng cites twentieth-century Italian painter Giorgio Morandi, who is best known for his contemplative still-life paintings[14], as an inspiration[3][10]. Her preference for painting is au contraire to fellow contemporary artists of her generation, who are experimenting with installation and multimedia arts[2][3]. Apart from painting, Cheng also regularly sketches in ink and pencil[2].

## In the media[edit]

## External Links[edit]

* Cheng Ting Ting - Blindspot Gallery
* Cheng Ting Ting - K11 Art Foundation
* Cheng Ting Ting 7 Artworks, Bio & Shows on Artsy
* Artist Cheng Ting Ting's New Paintings - Zolima CityMag

## References[edit]

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Cheng Ting Ting". Gallery EXIT 安全口. Retrieved 2020-03-07.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 Karacs, Sarah (2017-07-06). "Inside the Heads of Hong Kong's Pressure-Cooker Youth: Artist Cheng Ting Ting's New Paintings". Zolima CityMag. Retrieved 2020-03-08.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 3.6 3.7 3.8 Lee, Christie (2017-07-11). "Cheng Ting Ting — Why not Childish?". CoBo Social. Retrieved 2020-03-10.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
4. ↑ "Cheng Ting Ting". Bo Editions. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
5. ↑ "Art books". chengtingting.pictures. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 "Enfante". K11 Art Foundation. Retrieved 2020-03-07.
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 陳, 奉京 (2017-07-06). "【專訪】在「參差」中走自己的路 鄭婷婷把自己扔到不安全中". HK01. Retrieved 2020-03-08.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 "Cheng Ting Ting: Fall In Fall Out 鄭婷婷《集合之前，解散之後》". Gallery EXIT 安全口. Retrieved 2020-03-07.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 "Cheng Ting Ting: Recipient Absent 鄭婷婷: 《收件人不在》". Gallery EXIT 安全口. Retrieved 2020-03-07.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 10.2 10.3 10.4 10.5 10.6 Chow, Veronica (2019-03-25). "鄭婷婷：在混亂之中找到的舒適空間". Vogue Hong Kong. Retrieved 2020-03-08.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
11. ↑ "Artist | Cheng TingTing". mobart. Retrieved 2020-03-08.
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 12.2 Hutton, Mercedes (2017-07-11). "Artist Cheng Ting Ting explores childhood creativity in new solo show". Home Journal. Retrieved 2020-03-11.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 13.3 Nam, Ye Eun. "Fall In Fall Out Cheng Ting Ting". ArtAsiaPacific. Retrieved 2020-03-11.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
14. ↑ "A Backward Glance: Giorgio Morandi and the Old Masters". Guggenheim Bilbao. Retrieved 2020-03-10.`{{cite web}}`: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

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