Bor och arbetar i Beijing. 

Chengyao He föddes i Sichuano och utexaminerades från Sichuan's Konsthögskola 1989. Bland hennes senaste solo utställningar ingår Performance Art of He Chengyao, One World Art Center, Beijing; He Chengyao's Performance Art Photographs Exhibition, Soobin Art Gallery, Singapore; and Juhua Space, Shanghai, China.

Hon har även deltagit i följande internationella konstmanifestationer : Busan Biennale, Korea; Asian Women's Art, Tokyo Joshibi University's Art Museum, Japan; The New Vision of Chinese Photography, Taibei Modern Art Museum, Taiwan; Cruel\Loving Bodies, Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai; 798 Space, Beijing, Art Center Hongkong, China; 14th Rencontre Internationale Art Performance Quebec; LE LIEU Centre Art Action, Quebec City; and Clark Gallery Montreal, Canada. Hon deltog även i en panel diskussion och i utställningen Asian-Pacific Women Artists i Taipei Artist Village, Taiwan. China Live Art utställningen turnerade till åtta konstcenter i Storbrittanien. Reshaping Contemporary China Art turnerade till Millennium Art Museum, Beijing, Kina och the University at Buffalo Art Galleries, New York, USA. Andra grupp utställningar inkluderar  the Southeast Asia Performance Art Symposium och den 7e Asiatopia Performance Art Festival, Queens Gallery, Thailand. He Chengyao's performancekonst dokumentation från Kinaingick även i  SUMU Titanik Gallery, Finland; International Exhibition, Curzon Soho Cinema, London, UK; samt ”Vital”  - International Chinese Live Art Festival, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, UK. Chengyao He presenterades dessutom vid Global Feminisms vid the Brooklyn Museum, som var curaterad av Maura Reilly och Linda Nochlin.

"Feminism is a remote topic in my country where I live. China is always a male-dominated world, although the Chinese Communist Party had tried to abolish the old male-dominated system so that every one had a right to obtain an occupation. We had already shortened the discrimination between male and female and established the "equal rights" constitution between female/male. But in fact, the Equality is not based on the rights from individual liberation and fair opportunity. There is still existing sexual unfairness, discrimination in social status as well as between female and male. Most people still conform to the traditional sexual division of labor. Individual value and rights of female are still ignored."