Born in Penang in 1982, Cheng Yen Pheng graduated from the Dasein Academy of Art in 2004. She was a recipient of the Malaysian Emerging Artists awards in 2009 and was one of three local artists chosen to create a commissioned artwork for Absolut Vodka in 2011. Although she is fairly new to the local art scene her incredible skill and dexterity as a painter has not gone un-noticed and she has worked closely with well-respected Malaysian artists such as Liew Kung Yu and Chuah Chuan Yong on important public art projects in Malaysia.