Born in Taiwan and raised in Penang, Malaysia, Cindy Cheng I-Hsin is a conceptual and visual artist working with text, performance, sculpture and installation inspired by printmaking. Her practice examines how gestural, linguistic, and spatial traces inscribe identity and cultural memory, seeing human-being as print-making and exploring the body as a site of imprinting, where lived experience accumulates as marks and repetitions.
In recent years, her work delves into classical Eastern thought and embodied perception (in particular geographical, medicinal and astrological), drawing on timeless image-characters and intuitive knowledge systems. Her research-driven methodology translates responses to specific environments and encounters, while viewing art as an expanded field of consciousness, where perception, intuition, and material encounter reveal what it means to be alive and human today.
Cheng is the recipient of the Spring 2025 residency at Triangle Arts Association in New York, granted by the Taipei Cultural Center in New York. She is also a recipient of the 2026 Grant for the Development of Young Artists by the Ministry of Culture, Taiwan, supporting the production and archiving of her decade-long performative project MADE IN TAIWAN (2018–ongoing), developed as ‘The More Taken, the More Left Behind: An Exploration of Island Topology’.
Her recent solo shows were presented by the National Taiwan University Library (2024), the National Kaohsiung University of Science and Technology Art Center (2024), and Project Seek of Hong Foundation (2023). Her work has won prizes at the 2023 Young Artist Award (Taiwan), the 2022 and 2020 Contemporary Sculpture Lih Pao Prize (Taiwan).