Vennes CHENG
Dr Vennes Cheng Sau Wai is a Hong Kong-based scholar and curator, currently teaching in the Division of Arts and Machine Creativity at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Formerly Associate Curator of Hong Kong Visual Culture at M+ Museum, her research spans modern and contemporary art in Hong Kong and China, diaspora studies, artist archives, and mnemonic contingency. Cheng was a research fellow in the joint Goethe-Institut, documenta Institut, and documenta Archiv fellowship in 2021, and was named a Para Site Hong Kong emerging art professional in 2018. Her research paper on Hong Kong’s visual resonance received honourable mention in the 2023 Early Career Researcher Prize from the International Association for Visual Culture. She has curated projects in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Germany, and Thailand. Cheng holds a PhD in Art History from The Chinese University of Hong Kong and an MA in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London. Her monograph Archive as Detour was published in 2024.