SOLO EXHIBITIONS: 2015 “The Hidden Virtues” Sotheby’s New York 2013 “An Eternal Spring” Sotheby’s Hong Kong 2008 “China Blues” The Pottery Workshop Hong Kong 2002 “Glazing China” Grotto Gallery, Hong Kong
1999 “Made in China Blues” The Pottery Workshop, Hong Kong
1995 “Heroine” The Pottery Workshop, Hong Kong
1993 “Seeds of a New Civilization” The Pottery Workshop, Hong Kong
1992 “Made in Hong Kong” Modernology Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1991 “Essence of Goofy Figures” The Pottery Workshop, Hong KongSPECIAL DISPLAYS / RESTAURANTS / HOTELS PROJECTS Wall Display for the Chinese Restaurant Raffles Hotel, Shenzhen China Lobby Centre Piece The Middle House, Shanghai 3D Printing design ceramic cups for Xuberance Milan Salone Satellite Hotel interiors, Yunnan China Yi Tata
Spa Wall display, Four Seasons Hotel, Seoul
Chinese Restaurant Shangri La Hotel, Tianjin
Winter Wonderland-Artistree, Lane Crawford Pacific P lace HK
Winter Wonderland – Gnomes Lane Crawford Pacific Place HK
Spring Blossom Store Display Van Cleef & Arpels, Paris & Japan
Chinese Restaurant Garden Hotel, Yixing China
Fashion Visionaries Lane Crawford Beijing
Bar, lounge and common area display The Peninsula Hotel, Shanghai
Chinese Restaurant Waldorf-Astoria Beijing
Ceramic Dinnerware Ran Sushi, Beijing
Centre piece Nadaman, Beijing
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2018 Faenza Ceramic Biennale Invitational Exhibition, Italy
2017 Permanent piece at the New Joseph Hotung Gallery at the British Museum
Yi Design at Beijing Design Week, 751 D Park, PR China
2016 “IAC Members’ Exhibition” Design Museum, Barcelona
“Jingdezhen: The Next Generation” part of London Craft Week, China Design Centre
Yi Design at Beijing Design Week, PR China
2015 “Immersion: Becoming You” Kate Shin Gallery, Waterfall Mansion, NYC
Grotto Gallery, Art Basel, Hong Kong
Cynthia Reeves, Art Central, Hong Kong
2013 “New Blue and White” Boston Museum of Fine Arts, USA
2012 “China’s White Gold” Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK
“New Site-East Asian Contemporary Ceramics Exhibition” Yingge Ceramics Museum
“Chinese Design Today” Themes and Variations Gallery, London, UK
“Push Play” NCECA Invitational, Bellevue Art Museum Seattle
“New ‘China’ Porcelain Art from Jingdezhen” The China Institute, New York City, USA
Exhibition at the Westerwald Keramik Museum, Hohr-Grenhausen, Germany
2010 “Förderpreis Keramik 2010 der Nassauischen Sparkass”Keramickmuseum Westerwald
2009 “Breaking the Mold: Contemporary Chinese and Japanese Ceramic Sculpture” Dennos Museum, Michigan USA
“The 10th International Shoebox Sculpture Exhibition” Hawaii, USA
2008 “Colourware” Flow Gallery, London and The Hub, Sleaford
2007Galerie Leda Fletcher, Caruouge, Switzerland
“May Exhibition” Galerie Arums, Paris France
2006 "XIX International Bienniale of Contemporary Ceramic" Ceramic Museum, Vallauris, France
"East West Collaboration 2006" University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA
2005 "The Happening" Dowda Soy Sauce Factory, Hong Kong
2003 “Yin/Yang” Flagstaff House Museum of Teaware
“More Than Just Food” Hong Kong Heritage Museum
2002 “Contemporary Chinese Ceramics Today” Ariana Museum, Switzerland
"Asia Pacific Contemporary Exhibition” Taipei County Yingke Ceramics Museum
2000 “Political Clay” The Clay Studio, Philadelphia, USA
“Global Culture Centre 5th International Group Show” Osaka World Trade Center
1999 “New Impressions of Contemporary Hong Kong Ceramics” Museu De Arte De Macau
“14th Asian International Art Exhibition” Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan1997 “Where Creativity Meets-A Celebration In Art”
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
“Art, An Anti-Destiny, A Window upon The World”
2nd Int’l Group Show, La Grande Arche, Paris, France
“The Faculty Show in Commemoration of the 40th Anniversary of the Department of Fine Arts” Chinese University, Hong Kong
1993 “Tea Ware By Hong Kong Potters” Flagstaff House Museum of Tea Ware, Hong Kong
“Younger Hong Kong Artists: Painters and Potters” The Rotunda, HK Exchange Square
1990 Modernology Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1988 SOMAR Gallery Group Exhibit, San Francisco, USA
1986 “Twigs” group show, C. Corcoran Gallery, Muskegon, USAJUROR:
2009 European Ceramic Competition 2009, Keramick Museum Westerwald, Germany 1998 Hong Kong Teaware Competition, Flagstaff Teaware Museum
JOB EXPERIENCE:
2019 Founder Caroline Cheng Art and Design Limited
2014 Founder The Pottery Workshop Dali
2013 Founder Yi Design
Yi Design is researching sustainable development in ceramic design. 2008 Founder & Organizer The Pottery Workshop Creative Market, Jingdezhen
Special Researcher China Research Academy for Fine Arts, Beijing
Producer Documentary “Pottery of the Ethnic Minorities of Southwest China”
2007 Founder The Pottery Workshop Beijing
Founder Open Air Ceramic Market for the Jingdezhen Ceramic Fair
2004-Present Founder The Pottery Workshop, Jingdezhen
2002 Founder The Pottery Workshop, Shanghai
2009- 2013 Adjunct Professor Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts
1988-present Independent Artist
1997-present Director The Pottery Workshop, Hong KongThe Pottery Workshop 乐天陶社 is the largest ceramic center in Hong Kong, Shanghai and in Jingdezhen. It consists of classrooms with over 130 students attending pottery classes each week, ceramic galleries that exhibitlocal and international artists' work and offering artists in residency, Friday evening lectures.
1998-2001 Artist in Residence
New Asia Secondary School & Kwan Fong Kai Chi School
1995-1998 Lecturer for CeramicsThe Chinese University of Hong Kong
1996-1999 Working group memberHong Kong Museum of Contemporary Art
1991-2001 Ceramics TeacherGallery Manager, The Pottery Workshop, HK
1989-1990 Art Instructor San Jose Museum of Art, California, USA
1988-1989 Administrative AssistantPacific Grove Art Center, California, USA
1987-1988 Research Assistant for the2nd Anthology of Performance Art, Art Com, San Francisco, USASELECT PUBLISHED:
2019 “Caroline Yi Cheng: Redefining the Age-Old Art of Ceramics” Macau Lifestyle Magazine
2011 Chinese Contemporary Art News, August issue
Elle Magazine, August issue
2009 “Pottery of the Ethnic Minorities of Southwest China” Documentary
“Fudan University Lecture on Creativity”
http://www.tudou.com/programs/view/cnYTbch-aWc/
2008 “Reinventing Subversion” Ceramic Art and Perception
BBC Radio 4 Interview
“Caroline Cheng – China Blues” Paroles Jan/Feb 2008
“The Artful Traveller: Caroline Cheng: SOFA’S STAR” Everett Potter’s Travel Report
2007 “Yao Ming helps make the Olympics Special” Shanghai Daily 5thJuly 2007
“Hong Kongers Proal Galleries for Paintings, Pie and Pinot Noir” Bloomberg.com
2006 “Les ceramists de Hong Kong a la Biennale de Vallauris” Paroles issue 204
2004 “La Hong Kong Pottery Workshop sur la route de Jingdezhen” Paroles
2000 Asiaweek, December 1, 2000, pp. 56-57
Ceramic Review, Issue 29, Taiwan
1995 Hong Kong Ceramics 1985-1995SELECT CURATORIAL:
2019 “All That’s Gold Does Glitter – A Glamorous Ceramic Exhibition” Sands China, Macau
“One Bag One Road-Miniature Ceramic Exhibition” Jingdezhen, China
2017 “Young Craftsman of China” London Craft Week
“Jingdezhen Ceramics” Westerwald Keramik Museum, Germany
“Design Market” at the Beijing Design Week, PR China
2016 “Jingdezhen: The Next Generation” London Craft Week
2005 “Ceramic Fashion Show” The PWS Experimental Factory Jingdezhen
“THE HAPPENING-A Multimedia Experience”, Dowda Food Industries Factory site Hong Kong
2004 “A Taste of China-Contemporary Ceramics in China” The Pottery Workshop, Shanghai
2003 “To Dream the Impossible-Contemporary Ceramic Pillow Exhibition” The Pottery Workshop, Hong Kong
“Shanghai Art Revival Sanatorium SARS”, PWS Shanghai
2000 “Looking Back/Forward-5 Young Ceramic Artists from China”
Hong Kong Fringe Club Mont Blanc Gallery/Pottery Workshop Gallery
1997/1998 “Unity in Diversity” Travelling Exhibition of Hong Kong Ceramic Art
Manitoba Crafts Council, Winnipeg, Canada
The Pottery Workshop, Hong Kong
Guangdong Museum of Art, ChinaSELECT LECTURES/DEMONSTRATIONS:
2019 “Dragons, Cats and Chickens – Pottery of Yunnan” NCECA, Minneapolis, USA
2017 “The Path of An Artist” Hong Kong Design Institute, Hong Kong
2016 “Jingdezhen Ceramics: The Next Generation” The British Museum
2012 “Ceramics Today” Hubei Academy of Fine Arts, Wuhan China
2008 Tokyo National University of Arts and Music, Japan
2007 “Contemporary Chinese Ceramics” Vevey School of Art, Switzerland
2002 “After Celadon: Contemporary Chinese Ceramics” Chair of Panel
NCECA Conference, Kansas City, USA
2001 ”Struggle for Nothing: Humor and Censorship” slide talk
Harvard UniversityCeramics Studio, Cambridge, Mass, USA
1997 HONG KONG CERAMIC ART - slide talk University of Manitoba &
Nova Scotia College of Art and Craft, CanadaPUBLIC COLLECTION:
British Museum, London UK Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge UK
National Museum, Beijing Ceramic Museum, Vallauris France
Hong Kong Museum of Art Museu De Arte De Macau
Kresge Art Center, Michigan State University Guangdong Museum of Art, China
China Academy of Fine Arts, Hangzhou Shiwan Pottery Treasure Museum
Foshan Nan Feng Ancient Kiln Museum, China Hong Kong Heritage MuseumGuangdong Academy of Fine Arts University Museum Cheltenham Art Gallery & Museum
Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Germany Boston Museum of Fine Arts
AWARDS:
2017 Mino International Ceramic Competition Bronze Award
Beijing Design Week, Cultural Inheritance and Innovation Award
2014 NCECA Outstanding Achievement Award
2014 Shanghai Outstanding Female Designer Award
GROUP AFFILIATIONS:
Member Hong Kong Arts Development Council
Member International Academy of Ceramics
Vice Chairman Shanghai China Ceramic Artists’ Association
Deputy Secretariat Chinese Ancient Ceramics Research Society
Member China Ceramic Industry Association
Member National Council on the Education for Ceramic Arts, USA
