Caroline Cheng

Co-Founder

Yi Design

Caroline Cheng is the co-founder 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. She 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 Ceramic Arts (NCECA) in 2014 and the Japan Good Design Award for Community Development in 2020.

Caroline is also the owner of the world-renowned Pottery Workshop in Hong Kong, Shanghai and Jingdezhen.