Cheung Qin is an interdisciplinary sculptor based in Cambridge with a background in architectural design, sculpture, and digital fabrication. His practice centers on creating actant instruments—inanimate artifacts or machines that autonomously perform and embody narratives of resilience. By pushing these artifacts beyond their static nature, his work explores fleeting, affective moments that exist between memory and speculation.
With professional experience as a design consultant for artist Sarah Oppenheimer and a designer for Olafur Eliasson, Cheung brings technical abilities to speculative design thinking. He was an artist in residence at Aalto Residency in Finland and the Monopol School of Sculpture in Berlin. His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions, including the Willem de Kooning Academie(Rotterdam), Yale's SOA North Gallery, BCA Gallery(Shanghai), Dutch Design Week 2024, and MIT's Wiesner Student Art Gallery.