Stephanie Teng is a multidisciplinary artist exploring the liminal through the subliminal, examining the tension and tenderness between emotional states that cultivate resilience in the face of fear. Moving fluidly between sculpture, photography, video, sound, and text, Her work is rooted in experiences of generational displacement, cultural hybridity, and collective healing. Teng’s assemblages explore belonging and erasure; presence and absence; grief and transformation through Plato’s notion of “Metaxy”—the generative space of tension in between opposing states that highlights the paradoxical nature of human existence. Informed by her background in psychology, her work also looks at how perception is shaped by systems of control; how patterns become rituals; and how new narratives of ecology and home can be written through the lens of decolonisation. Teng’s process is rhizomatic, often starting with rigorous research into ancient philosophies, languages and mysticisms that translate into scores for witnessing, remembering, and reimagining. Through this methodology, Teng challenges prevailing ontologies of the human condition by offering poetic interventions that disrupt the binaries that bind us. By humanising what society often pathologises, she creates spaces for healing and intervention through encounters that embody the Jungian idea of synchronicity—activating the collective conscious and attuning us to new ways of seeing, feeling, and being.
Her work has been exhibited at Tate Modern, Camden Art Centre, Cookhouse Gallery, Royal College of Art, 67 York Street Gallery, hARTslane Gallery, Square Street Gallery (HK), Art Central Hong Kong, The Mills (HK), Centre for Heritage, Art and Textiles, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Eaton Workshop and The Contemporary Art Digest (LA). She has been featured in Tatler (HK), Prestige (HK), Madame Figaro (HK), City Magazine (HK), Elle HK, Shado Magazine (UK), The DoDo (UK) and PhotoMonitor (UK) to name a few. She has also guest lectured at Hong Kong University, City University School of Creative Media, Royal College of Art, Asia Society x Art Central, South China Morning Post and Today at Apple.
Stephanie Teng (b.1989, Hong Kong) recently received her Master of Arts in Contemporary Art Practice from Royal College of Art.