Topic

We Move Mountains

​Speaker

Caroline Yi Cheng

Co-Founder 

Yi Design

Caroline Cheng is the cofounder of award-winning Yi Design and is determined to find a

circular solution for ceramic waste.

She is an artist and curator, whose promotion of Chinese ceramic arts over decades has

earned renown in China and throughout the world. She has held solo exhibitions in

Sotheby's Hong Kong (2013) and New York (2015). Her work has been collected by the

British Museum, the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge, the San Francisco Asian Art

Museum, and the Boston Museum of Fine Art. Cheng has received prizes for her work in

the Westerwald Ceramics Museum, Germany (2010), the Clay and Glass Film Festival in

Montpellier France (2010), the Mino International Ceramic Award 2017, and also

received the “Outstanding Achievement Award” from the American National Council on

Education for the CeramicArts (NCECA) in 2014 and the Japan Good Design Award for

Community Development in 2020.

Caroline Cheng is also the owner of the world-renowned Pottery Workshop in Hong

Kong, Shanghai, and Jingdezhen.

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