Cindy Chao (Chinese: 趙心綺) is a Taiwanese jewellery designer. She founded her company, Cindy Chao The Art Jewel, in 2004. She is known for her Black Label Masterpiece Collection and Annual Butterfly.

Chao was born in Taiwan in the 1970s. She is the daughter of a sculptor and a businesswoman. Her grandfather Hsieh Tzu-Nan (simplified Chinese: 谢自南; traditional Chinese: 謝自南; pinyin: Xiè Zìnán) was an architect who designed temples across Taiwan.^[1][2] According to Chao, it was her grandfather who inspired her interest in architecture.

Chao learned various techniques and skills of sculpting from her father, which eventually shaped her own style of design.^[2] In 2004, Chao established Cindy Chao The Art Jewel and opened its first showroom in Taipei.^[3] In 2007, she became the first Taiwanese jewellery artist to take part in a Christie's New York fine jewellery auction.^{[citation needed]} Her pieces feature classic 18th century artisan techniques of crafting designs in wax known as la cire perdue (Lost-wax casting). Chaos's pieces are completed using precious metal and gemstones.

Chao's two collections, Black Label Masterpieces and White Label Collection, have been exhibited at art fairs and institutions around the world including Beijing Today Art Museum, Tokyo Mori Art Museum,^[4] Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris,^[3] Masterpiece London,^[5][6][7][8] and TEFAF Maastricht.^[9][10] In 2010, Cindy Chao become one of the first Taiwanese jewellery artists to have one of her designs, an Annual Butterfly, inducted into the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.^{[11][12][13][14][15]}

In 2020, her first annual butterfly brooch the 2008 Black Label Masterpiece I, Ruby Butterfly Brooch, was donated to the Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris, displayed in its Galerie des Bijoux.^{[16][17][18][19]}

In 2021, her 2018 Black Label Masterpiece XVIII “Peony Brooch” was inducted into the William and Judith Bollinger Gallery of the Victoria and Albert Museum.^{[20][21][22][23]}

On 17 November 2021, Cindy Chao was appointed Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et Lettres (Order of the Arts and the Letters) by France's minister of culture Roselyne Bachelot-Narquin during a ceremony held in Paris, France.^[24][25][26]