Born in Taiwan and raised in Penang, Malaysia, Cindy Cheng I-Hsin works with text, performance, sculpture, and installation. Informed by the logic of printmaking, she examines how gestural, linguistic, and spatial traces inscribe identity and cultural memory. Her practice explores the body as a site of imprinting, where lived experience accumulates as marks and repetitions. Since 2020, her work engages Eastern thought and embodied perception, drawing on the timeless image-characters and intuitive knowledge systems. Through research-driven yet sensorial works, she proposes 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, Ministry of Culture, Taiwan. 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). Cheng holds a BA in Foreign Languages and Literatures from the National Taiwan University and an MFA in Visual Arts from the Taipei National University of the Arts.