Cindy Ng Sio Ieng

Cindy Ng Sio Ieng was born in Macau and raised in Macau and Hong Kong. A period of study in London in the early 1990s proved especially fruitful. On the recommendation of Bartolomeu dos Santos at the UCL Slade School of Fine Art, she studied the ancient Chinese paintings in the British Museum’s Chinese Painting Study Room. In 1996, she moved to Taipei to continue her studies in contemporary ink painting and she held a solo exhibition at the Taipei Fine Art Museum. She has lived and worked in Beijing since 2008.

Cindy’s creative principles stem from the aesthetics of the Song Dynasty. She is innovative, without abandoning tradition; she preserves the deep roots of traditional ink, but she uses contemporary ideas and modern materials to interpret its mood. For many years, she has attempted to liberate ink from its subservience to the brush and its long-standing purpose as vehicle for text and images. She ends the established and almost indivisible partnership between the ink and the brush, bringing ink to video, photography, paper, and oil painting. She has even experimented with new media, including interactive technologies. Her ink works cross regions and media, revealing the unique essence of ink.

She has explored ink for more than twenty years, and in that time, she has discovered that ink has unique expressive traits. At the end of 2015, she completed a public art commission for the Sanchong Branch of the New Taipei City Hospital, where she used ink to create a mood that reflected the true meaning of life. These richly colored works on glass produce images resembling landscape. She then shot the images with a video recorder and had them returned to the glass with a print, preserving that fleeting beauty for eternity.

2006 The 10th Media Arts Festival Jury Recommended Work<No Boundary>, Japan
Artist in Residence, Grass Maintain Chateau, Taiwan
2005 The 10th “V-art” International Video-Art Festival Selected Finalist Finalist<Reincarnation> , Italy
The 2nd Audiovisual festival B&W Selected Work-Experimental Video <The Flow of Life>, Portugal

2004 The 3rd Runner-up in The 18th Art Competition The 2nd Runner-up in painting Philippe Charriol Foundation, Hong Kong

■ Solo Exhibitions
2018 “Spring tide” Cindy Ng Solo Exhibition”, Chi Ni Gallery, Taipei
2017 “Flowing Light Cindy Ng Solo Exhibition”, Riverside Art Museum, Beijing
2016 “Romantic Rhythm Cindy Ng Solo Exhibition”, Another Art Centre, Beijing
2015 “So Far, So Close Cindy Ng Solo Exhibition”, Orient Foundation Museum, Portugal
“Inkality Cindy Ng Solo Exhibition”, Galerie Ora-Ora, Hong Kong
2014 Works by Cindy Ng Sio Ieng, Solo Exhibition,
The Exhibition Hall of the UNESCO Centre, Macau
2013 “Ink-formation Cindy Ng Solo Exhibition”, Galerie Ora-Ora, Hong Kong
2010 “Encounter Change”, Me Photo Art Gallery, Beijing
2007 “Ink in Motion Shadow”, Today Art Museum, Beijing
“Ink in Motion”, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle
2005 “Cindy Ng Solo Exhibition”, Jia Art Gallery, Taiwan
“Peace”, Ju Ming Museum, Taiwan
2004 “Sounds of Silence”, Amerasia Bank Gallery, New York
“Sounds of Silence”, The Taipa Houses – Museum, Macau
1996 “Traveling”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

■ Selected Group Exhibitions
2018 “Amplified” Juri Markkula and Cindy Ng exhibition, Galerie Ora-Ora, Hong Kong
“Black : recategorize ” exhibition, Galerie Ora-Ora, Hong Kong
“Art is play” exhibition, MGM Hotel, Macau
“Virtual” Beijing Hong Kong Macau# ink new media, Yan Huang Art Museum
2017 “Luminous Shadows” Ink studio, Beijing
2016 “Futuristic Ink” , Liang Yi Museum, Hong Kong
2015 “Calligraphic Time and Space” Abstract Art in China, Power Station of Art, Shanghai
“Emptiness: The Dialogue of Landscape” , Contemporary Ink Art Exhibition, Ming Yuan Art
Museum, Shanghai
“Ink Remix” Contemporary Art from Mainland China, Taiwan and HK
Canberra Museum and Gallery, Bendigo Art Gallery, University of NSW Gallerie, Sydney
and the Museum of Brisbane, Australia
“Spirit-Resonance” A New World of Ink Painting Exhibition, Robin Gallery, New Yor
“Silent Poetry” Chinese Contemporary Art Exhibition, China Cultural Centre, Sydney and
Adelaide Festival Centre, Adelaide
2014 Chinese Contemporary Youth Ink Yearbook Exhibition, Beijing
The 3rd Documentary Exhibition of Fine Arts, Hu Bei Museum of Art
Macau Artists Exhibition, National Museum of China, Beijing

2013 “Traces of Individuals” Ink Paintings Exhibition, Red Gate Gallery, Beijing
2012 “Song of the Siren” Contemporary Ink Art Exhibition, Art+Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai
“Dream Flowers” Exhibition, Red Zone Gallery, Switzerland
Mixed Media Exhibition, Austin Tung Gallery, Australia
2011 “Tao of Nature” Chinese Abstract Art Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
Cao Chang Di Photo Spring: Arles in Beijing, Beijing
2010 “Time Unfrozen” New Media Art Exhibition, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taiwan
“Flower of Chaos” Video Art Exhibition, Video Art Verona, Italy
“Making Waves“ Contemporary Art Exhibition，The 6th Chinese Character Festival,
Taiwan
2009 Mirrored Exhibition，The True Color Museum，Su Zhou
2008 GrünDerZeit – Landschaftsarchitektur in und aus Peking, Institute of cultural foreign
relations, Germany
2007 Videonale 11, Festival for Contemporary Video Art, Germany
The 3rd Chengdu Biennial, Chengdu
2006 The 5th International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen, Guan Shan Yue Museum of Art,
Shenzhen
“Entry Gate: Chinese Aesthetics of Heterogeneity” The 1st envisage, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Shanghai
2005 “Unseen History” Art of Kaohsiung, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
“Macao Image” Daejeon Fast, Daejeon Museum of Art, Korea