Ivy MA works in drawing, painting, photography and mixed-media installation. Cultivating an aesthetic characterised by quietness and stillness, Ivy Ma's work becomes, ultimately, a philosophical reflection on nature and history. Her process is both careful and caring, infused with humility and sympathy even as she examines difficult histories.

Looking, collecting, drawing and thinking, Ivy works her way through history to find what we might call "the human thread" running through everything. The objects she collects, the images she selects, and the occasional photographs and videos she produces all strike a similar chord, one that is at once uncanny, disturbing and beautiful.

She received her MA Degree of Feminist Theory and Practice in Visual Art at the University of Leeds in the UK, 2002, BA of Fine Arts (Painting) at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) / The Hong Kong Art School, Hong Kong Arts Centre in 2001. She has held a number of solo exhibitions in Hong Kong. She was an Asian Cultural Council grantee in 2007 and received the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Awards, Young Artist Award in 2012. Her series of works ‘Last Year’ (2015) was collected by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in 2020.