Jacky Cheng  was born in Malaysia of Chinese heritage and currently resides in Yawuru Country, Broome in Western Australia. She received her Bachelor of Architecture (Honours 1) from University of New South Wales, Sydney and is currently a practicing artist, a facilitator and an arts educator.

Jacky's practice is fundamentally about identity and awareness through cultural activities  and memories of home, country and relationships. Her significant concerns are about correlating and weaving narratives from her native experiences whilst mapping the esoteric and social relationships of her origins and her new found home, environment and social surroundings. Her awareness is amplified through her diasporic lens and identity as a person of colour in foreign borders as she continues to question her notion of 'home' and 'belonging' - traversing 'in between' territories;  seeks gentle preparation for death and afterlife honouring those who came before her.  Her predominant choice of medium reflects an intense relationship within her practice through methodologies and manipulation of papers and fibres.

Jacky was awarded the 46th Fremantle Print Award (2023),  Best in Bespoke Design; Design Fringe, VIC (2023), The John Stringer Prize (2022) and The Jury Art Prize (2021);  finalists in multiple art awards including National Works on Paper, VIC (2024, 2022) and 67^th Blake Prize, NSW (2022), Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award (2021) to name a few.  She attended residencies in Finland (2017, 2018 and 2019), Spain (2018), Japan (2019), Fremantle Art Centre (2021 and 2022), SPACED (2022/ 2023) and Australian Tapestry Workshop, VIC (2023) to further her commitment in her practice. Her collaboration with Intensive Fields lab (if/Lab) resulted in a permanent integrated public art work titled 'Pleated Histories' completed in late 2022. She was one of the selected artists in Regional Assembly 2023/24 (Regional Arts Australia) connecting with other cultural practitioners working in regional and remote geographies across Australia, Asia and the Pacific.  In 2024, Jacky was selected as a 'lead artist' for the 2024 edition of the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial with her immersive installation 'The Rite of Divination' at Fremantle Art Centre. 

'The Calling Over Nagula' (2021) - a collaborative ephemeral public art work with Michael Jalaru Torres and Vanessa Margetts of MudMap Studio received the 2023 National Landscape Architecture Award - a national recognition from Australian Institute of Landscape Architects on small project category. 

Her award winning teaching accolades was recognised at the state and national Vocational Education Training (VET) sector bestowed by the Australia Training Awards (2013) and a finalist for the Curtin University Teaching Excellence Award by Awards Australia (2015).

Her works are held by City of Fremantle, Broome Shire, Chevron Australia, North Regional TAFE and private collections nationwide. Jacky is a member of The International Association of Hand Papermakers and Paper Artists (IAPMA) and  represented by Suma Orientalis in Malaysia.