RHIANNON CHEUNG • RHIHR
ARTIST, DESIGNER, DESIGN LEAD
RHIANNON CHEUNG (b. 1997) is a multidisciplinary artist and fashion designer from Hong Kong. Cheung explores the intersections of materiality, space and technology by moving between wearable forms and mixed-media expression. Cheung worked as a Senior Designer for Givenchy, LVMH in Hong Kong and led the design team in launching their first sustainable collection and art-directed the campaigns. With a strong foundation in luxury craftsmanship and innovation, this experience continue to shape her creative and collaborative approach. Since then, her work delves into the neglected interconnectedness between nature and human activities, and reflects on how ecological thinking could be re-situated in socio-technological shifts. Her current research-driven work focuses on sustainable and innovative material that critique material agency, Theory of Ecological Thinking and Post-humanism—reinterpreting textile as decentralized experience.
Cheung holds a Master of Global Management (Dean’s List) from the University of Hong Kong (2025) and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Fashion and Textile Design from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, with a minor in Management (2019). She has also studied at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York City (2017), and obtained the Certificate in ESG Investing (Environmental, Social, Governance) (2024) for her journey in sustainability. Cheung’s works have been recognized by prestigious platforms including Yinger Prize, China International Innovation Award.
ARTIST STATEMENT
To me, textile weaves the unseen with seen, reveals what the eyes cannot see but the thoughts feel.
Growing up with an interest in future, I have imagined multiple possibilities through films and fictions. In particular, the short film World of Tomorrow (2015) touches on the topic of clone, and plants a seed in my curiosity towards what makes human feel differentiable from others. As much as I was studying Fashion and Textile Design during undergraduate studies, I took a Psychology course to further explore cognitive behaviors. This knowledge later merges with my concern on climate change and sustainability, as I was exploring human-nature relationship. Indeed, during my fashion designer career, I encountered real life situations revolving around the pressing environmental issues. The reality is, I could not simply find the answer in a corporate scenario. This situation points me to a refreshing direction, questioning the possible outcomes of our interconnected human activities and environment, in which textile leads the deployment of these fabricated worlds.
Where will textile lay in front of our possible future?
Utilizing textile as the core of my artistic practice, over the years, I worked across materials, techniques, photography and visual media, to attempt to examine human-nature relationship in the context of psychology. One pivotal moment that shapes my artistic research is when I visited Switzerland in 2023, a trip originally to process complex emotions such as grief. I found unexpected solace in the vast landscapes of the Swiss Alps, the serenity and peace I felt can be hardly described in words. Moving too fast just as how our society is shifting, only when slow down that I realize how close nature is to us. This perception and the urge to repair this relationship, lead me to explore the theory of ecological thinking and post-humanism.
Through experimental approaches, I challenge the notions of vision and dimension through “re-gaze” of natural landscape. Having textile and history as my base, I explore the interplay of materiality, technology, painting, photography, videography and written text, to convey the ongoing questions towards our connection with the world from large picture to small details.