Ms Grace Cheng

Cultural Practices and Sustainability (Hong Kong)

📅 8 November 2025 (Saturday)

🕛 1000 - 1100

Currently working as the Director of Art in Hospital and Community Art Network, vice-chairperson of ADAHK, Ms Grace Cheng is also the guest curator of Hong Kong Palace Museum. She believes art could bring infinite possibilities, therefore she has been curating and presenting exhibitions and art projects that embrace a wide range of mediums across many fields and disciplines.

Ms Cheng curates projects with the interests of community engagement: Big Happy Heart – Community Art Project (2007) was a project that assembled 1,500 paintings, which were created by patients, rehabilitants, students, artists, and people from all walks of life, into a giant artwork to convey the message: art heals. Charming Experience (2009) was a groundbreaking project that showcased artworks in which the audience could experience art through different senses. Made in Wetland (2010) guided the audience to appreciate the beauty of nature through various art workshops which were in coherence with the environment of Hong Kong Wetland Park. No Boundaries: Reinterpreting Palace Museum Culture (2022) and Dwelling in Tranquillity – Reinventing Traditional Gardens (2024), offers a Hong Kong perspective and nurtures Hong Kong artists contributing to the study and appreciation of Hong Kong and Chinese art & Culture.

She also organised the 11th International Expressive Arts Therapy Association Conference (2015), which drew professionals from different countries to discuss the implementation of art and therapy in improving the quality of life.

Organisation Description

Good health and well-being of individuals are essential to sustainable development. Art in Hospital believes in the consoling and therapeutic power of art. By promoting hospital art, it aims to enhance mental and physical well-being. Through community art projects in collaboration with artists, medical professionals and volunteers, it serves the community by encouraging individuals in need to achieve self-healing through artistic creation.