Chris Cheung Hon Him (aka h0nh1m; b.1983) is best known for installation art and audiovisual performance, whose artistic expression depends upon electronic, sound, image and creative technology in new media. h0nh1m’s reverence for Eastern and Western philosophy are central to his oeuvre, which he blends traditional ideology and futuristic imagination to create immersive soundscape, generative art and data art.
The RadianceScape project he initiated in 2014 has garnered critical acclaim and was featured in Ars Electronica, FILE Festival, EMAF and other festivals. The live performance were toured in Sónar Festival and WRO Art Biennale in 2017. The project won ZKM – Giga Hertz Awards in 2020. And his calligraphy and ink installation (No Longer Write – Mochiji / InkFlux) are collected in Taoyuan Museum of Fine Arts and UOB Art collection respectively. Lately, InkFlux is selected in 24th Japan Media Arts Festival. His recent works including Ink | Pulse (collaborated with calligrapher Tong Yang-tze) and Waving Script were commissioned by M+ and Hong Kong Palace Museum respectively. In 2024, Cheung was designated by the Hong Kong Museum of Art to create the Falling Tears and collaborated with the Hong Kong Dance Company on After Snowfall. For the 2025 iteration of The Peninsula Hong Kong's Art in Resonance programme, Cheung was commissioned by Tai Ping Carpets to create The Flow Pavilion. In the Echigo-Tsumari Art Field 2025, Cheung and ink artist Sim Shum Kwun Yi presented The Whispers of Stone in Japan. The same year, he was awarded Artist of the Year (Media Arts) at the 19th Hong Kong Arts Development Awards.
h0nh1m is always eager to explore new mediums and look for aesthetics in technological intervention. He established artist collective, XCEPT and XCEED in 2008. The collective works are showcased worldwide and have won prestigious international awards in the Reddot, TDC, Frame, A’ Design, Golden Pin, Lumen Prize and New York Art Director Club Young Guns 11.
In 2014, he was appointed as the Curator and Artistic Consultant of the 1st HK-SZ Design Biennale and has been invited as guest speaker in multiple global events including Christie’s Art and Tech Summit, Eyeo Festival and Business of Design Week. In 2008, he established the artist collective XCEPT and XCEED. In the following years, he established innovation lab XPLOR and created a platform called FutureTense, focusing on sustainable living aesthetics and media art education.
