Siyu Chen is a multidisciplinary artist of the Chinese diaspora working primarily in drawing, text and video. Her work explores the lingering unsettledness and imaginary potential in the state of liminality. The embodied experience of voluntary and involuntary migrations, shaped by frequent transitions in location, language, sociopolitical and psychic space, pulls her toward the act of spacemaking, where the desire for belonging persists.

Chen has exhibited at Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (New Haven, CT, USA),  99 Canal (New York, NY, USA), Accent Sisters (New York, NY, USA), FJORD (Philadelphia, PA, USA), BONIAN SPACE (Beijing, China), am art space (Shanghai, China), Studio Gallery (Shanghai, China), Bumpodo Gallery (Tokyo, Japan), and more. Her work has been collected by Awagami Paper (Tokushima, Japan). She is a recent resident at ChaNorth (Pine Plains, NY, USA), and a mentee at NYFA Immigrant Artist Program (New York, NY, USA). 

Chen is currently based in New Haven, CT (USA), pursuing a MFA in Painting and Printmaking at Yale University. She received her BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design (Providence, RI, USA) in 2018.

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