Chee Wang Ng addresses the identity of the Chinese diaspora by reevaluating, challenging, and modernizing traditional Chinese culture that draws upon ancient allegory, metaphor, and mythology by exploring and engaging with different contemporary medium.

His working for years with the leitmotif of "a bowl of rice with chopsticks" in “Eaten Your Fill of Rice?” the monumental size photography series exhibition was the main cultural component in the World Food Prize International Symposium in Des Moines, IA in celebrating United Nations General Assembly declaration of 2004 the International Year of Rice. His installation “100 China(s): All Chinese Looks Alike…” questions the metaphysical essence of Chineseness, while his video “108 Global Rice Bowls” embodies the spirituality of Buddhism. As a Chinese diaspora when he looks back, and it is not for the sheer comfort of nostalgia but to see how he far he has come.

Ng had been invited to give talk and lecture of his works to arts organizations in IA, IN, NJ, NY; as well as to the State University of New York at Stony Brook; Queens College, NY; Pace University, NY; and New York University.

Born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Ng lives and works in New York City. He studied Liberal Arts at Wartburg College, Waverly, IA and earned his BFA in Architecture from Rhode Island School of Design. Providence, RI.

Ng had his solo shows at the Godwin-Ternbach Museum, NY; Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art, NJ; Pace University, NY; Capital Square, and Plymouth Gallery in Des Moines, IA. His works had been in exhibited at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Asian American Arts Centre, NY; Museum of Chinese in America, NY; Art in General, NY; Henry Street Settlement, NY; University of California, Berkeley; State University of New York at Stony Brook; New Jersey City University, NJ; Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University; to Savannah College of Art and Design, GA. His art awards include the Aljira Emerge Six Program, and World Food Prize Foundation 2004 Distinguished Service to the Arts, and had received the New Jersey State Senate Resolution and the New York State Assembly Citation.