Biography

🔮 Snack Witch Joni Cheung 🍡 is a grateful, uninvited guest born—and knows she wants to die—on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm, Skwxwú7mesh, Stó:lō, and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh peoples. They are a Hong Kong-Chinese queer, neurodivergent, allophone woman living with chronic illnesses, a second generation immigrant, low income, and working class. She is a Certified Sculpture Witch with an MFA from Concordia University (2023) and holds a BFA with Distinction in Visual Art (2018) from the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. As a wicked #magicalgirl ✨ who eats art and makes snacks, she has exhibited across Turtle Island and beyond. They love teaching as a sessional professor, albeit under precarious working conditions. Their practice is indebted to the friends, co-conspirators, and peers they’ve met on the stolen lands of the Kanien’kehá:ka and Mi’kmaq peoples at Concordia and NSCAD University.

A Grant Writing Gremlin, they’ve received numerous awards, including the Individual Arts Grants—Visual Artists: British Columbia Arts Council; Research and Creation Grant: Canada Council for the Arts; and the Dale and Nick Tedeschi Studio Arts Fellowship: Concordia University. She was waitlisted for the SSHRC – Joseph-Armand Bombardier: Canada Graduate Master’s Scholarship. They give back to their communities as an assessor on grant and programming committees for arts councils, galleries, and artist-run-centres. 

Aside from art-making, Joni likes wandering down grocery store aisles and drinking bubble tea. 🧋

NOTE: Don’t feed this Mogwai after midnight. 👹

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