Bio

Dorothy Cheung is an artist from Hong Kong. She works with moving-image and poetry to examine identity and home from both personal and political angles, focusing on memory and forgetting.

Her moving-image works have been screened at the Whitney Museum of American Art, EYE Filmmuseum, Objectifs, and M+, and internationally at festivals, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival, the London Short Film Festival, the Taiwan International Documentary Festival, and Queer Lisboa.

She has received commissions from M+, Jumping Frames Hong Kong International Movement-image Festival, Visual AIDS, and private individuals.

Her latest moving-image work, as a bird that briefly perches, won the Grand Prize for Documentary by Women Directors at the What The Doc! International Documentary Film Festival 2025.  

When she is not making films, she writes poetry in Chinese and English. Her poems have appeared in Fleurs des Lettres, 別字, and other zines. She has performed spoken word pieces at Unwanted Words (NL), Queer Circle (UK), and REITIR (IS).

She has also been editing and translating for art institutions, museums, artists, and writers for over a decade. In 2025, she co-edited Images: Perspectives for WMA, which was launched at Art Basel Hong Kong 2025.

Grand Prize for Documentary by Women Directors, What The Doc! International Documentary Film Festival 2025 - Bangkok, Aug 2025