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Enna Cheung Yeuk-fei — Japanese Contemporary Mokuhanga artist

Enna Cheung Yeuk-fei

Hong Kong

Biography

Enna Cheung Yeuk-fei (張若菲) is a Hong Kong printmaker who works in intaglio, using the small-scale, personal print as a vehicle for autobiographical reflection on kinship, closeness, and embodied experience. She graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2023, and after graduation undertook a printmaking residency at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium, where she explored the traces and textures of skin through intaglio. She is a resident artist at the Hong Kong Open Printshop (HKOP).

In 2025 Cheung was one of two recipients of the HKOP Award in Printmaking, alongside Julie May. The award provides a six-month residency at HKOP's Print Lab at the Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre (JCCAC) in Shek Kip Mei, including mentorship, materials, technical support, and an exhibition venue. Her resulting solo exhibition at Print Art Contemporary — HKOP's gallery within the PMQ heritage complex on Aberdeen Street in Central — was accompanied by live demonstrations at the Print Lab and served as her first substantial institutional showcase as a working printmaker.

The principal documented work from the exhibition is 'shoulder to shoulder since birth' (肩, 'shoulder'), an intaglio print whose intimate subject reflects on the physical closeness and lifelong bond suggested by its title. The tonal, textured line characteristic of her intaglio approach registers the bodily intimacy of the print's content, continuing the interest in skin and touch that shaped her earlier work.

Because Cheung is at an early career stage and her institutional anchor is the 2025 HKOP residency, the published record of her practice is small and her print editions are correspondingly limited. 'shoulder to shoulder since birth' is the principal documented example as of the 2025 exhibition, catalogued through HKOP's Print Art Contemporary. Further documentation is likely to emerge through HKOP's exhibition catalogues and CUHK Fine Arts alumni channels.

Key Facts

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🇭🇰Hong Kong
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Frequently Asked Questions

Enna Cheung Yeuk-fei (張若菲) is a Hong Kong printmaker who works in intaglio, using the small-scale, personal print as a vehicle for autobiographical reflection on kinship, closeness, and embodied experience. She graduated from the Department of Fine Arts at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) in 2023, and after graduation undertook a printmaking residency at the Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium, where she explored the traces and textures of skin through intaglio. She is a resident artist at the Hong Kong Open Printshop (HKOP).

Enna Cheung Yeuk-fei's work was shaped by the Contemporary Mokuhanga tradition in Japanese woodblock printmaking. Contemporary Mokuhanga: Contemporary mokuhanga (literally "wood-block print") encompasses artists working from approximately 1970 to the present who continue or reinvent traditional Japanese woodblock printing techniques.

Woodblock Prints by Enna Cheung Yeuk-fei (1)