Hou Chien Cheng was born in Kaohsiung City, Taiwan, 1981. In 2009 Hou received his MFA at KASK School of Arts Ghent, Belgium. Since graduation Hou has been exhibiting in- and outside Belgium. He uses writing and video to produce works that are considered auto-fiction, which speak of social struggle, identity and rootlessness. Hou lives and works in Antwerp, and is currently a guest-researcher at KASK School of Arts Ghent, and a PhD in the Arts candidate at Ghent University.