Charcoal on paper

30 x 24

Brianna Cheng is a San Francisco Bay Area based artist. Her illustrations and photographs incorporate realistic self portraiture that synergize light and shadow, embodying a narrative of healing from depression and trauma. She has exhibited work at the Mills College Art Museum and participated in the De Young Open 2023. She received her Bachelors of Fine Arts from Mills College.

I create drawings, paintings, and photographs that express psychological pain and rejuvenation through self portraiture. I deploy dramatic highlights and shadows in charcoal throughout my compositions to accentuate emotional weight. Meanwhile, my work also relays emotional, mental, and physical resiliency by juxtaposing figural and floral anatomy.