GEOFFREY LOK-FAY CHEUNG

My practice explores the complexities of identity, cultural inheritance, and memory. Through my work, I navigate the intersection of personal experience, familial narratives, and the broader context of diaspora and displacement.

Central to my art-making is the transformation of photographic images—both personal and archival—through meditative, laborious processes. I work primarily with photography, installation, and mixed media, employing techniques such as layering wax over photographs, incorporating organic matter, and creating digital composites. These material interventions mirror the erosion and reconstruction of memories, reflecting the complex dynamics of cultural preservation and identity formation.

My installations and multimedia works function as sites of contemplation and ceremony, utilizing the detritus of cultural rituals and forgotten histories. By engaging with both traditional materials and contemporary technologies, I create spaces for reimagined narratives and alternate realities. These processes allow for the emergence of new voices in dialogue with—and sometimes in resistance to—heteronormative familial-cultural legacies.

Through my work, I invite viewers to consider the malleability of memory, the impact of intergenerational displacement, and the potential for renewal through ritual. By situating my practice within the oscillating tensions between self, family, and cultural inheritance, I offer contemplative spaces for examining how we collectively shape our understanding of belonging and identity.

Geoffrey Lok-Fay Cheung (he/him) is an artist examining the way bodies hold and transform memories, from its compaction against familial narrative legacies, to its dilation through ritual and ceremony. Cheung’s practice is guided by diverse material and disciplinary traditions, creating works—including print, video, and installations—that incorporate photographic images, organic materials, and digital processes. His exploration of personal identity and cultural inheritance is informed by his lived experience as a queer second-generation Canadian settler of Chinese descent. His work synthesizes scientific and metaphysical perspectives, informed by his background as a Master of Science graduate from the University of Toronto. Cheung currently works and lives on the traditional First Nation territories of Tkaronto, also known as Toronto, as well as the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations, also known as Vancouver. He obtained his Master of Fine Arts degree in 2024 from Emily Carr University.

Lok-Fay Cheung’s past Red Head exhibitions:
Unfamiliar Portraits, 2025

For more information visit
www.geoffreycheungart.com | @geoffrey.l.cheung