Curator Bio

Hera, Ieong Mei Cheng

Born in Macau, Hera is an artist and independent curator. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Painting and Calligraphy Art and a Master's degree in Plastic Arts from the Taiwan University of Arts. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Contemporary Visual Culture. Hera serves Vice Chairperson of the Macau Youth Art Association. 

Her early artistic creations focused on traditional Eastern media and seal carving. During her Master's studies, she expanded her body of work to include diverse media such as photography, installation, and video, exploring themes of nostalgia and the experiences of individuals in foreign lands. Currently, she focuses on contemporary art creation and curatorial research. Her works have been exhibited in China, Macao, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan, the United States, Portugal and France. She has held solo exhibitions such as Foreign Land and Foreign Land·Alienation·Disorder in Taiwan and Another Kind of Warmth in Macao.  Hera has curated contemporary visual art exhibitions such as Between Migration (Singapore), Utopia • Beijing (Youth Art 100 Exhibition Curators Programme, Beijing), and To Cross: Exhibition of Young Asian Artists (Macao).