In 2006, Hoy Cheong produced a photographic series called Chronicles Of Crime, which re-created famous Malaysian murder scenes. The artist explores the notion and complexities of crime, involving movements of people, and has a universal quality. With a film noir aesthetic, the scene is filled with symbolism, and is a study for Chronicles Of Crime: Asphyxiation. Hoy Cheong received a double Masters – Fine Art (Painting) from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (1986), and Education from the Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1984). He graduated Bachelor of Arts magna cum laud at the Brandeis University, United States, in 1982. He was the winner of the Australian Cultural Award in 1992. He had artist’s residences in Gasworks, London (2002), Canberra Institute of Art, Canberra, Australia (1992), and was visiting fellow to the Goldsmith College (1999), and visiting tutor to Central St Martin’s in London (1988). He was given a retrospective by the Eslite Gallery in Taiwan. His Re: Looking (2002-2003) installation was shown in the Venice Biennale in 2003.