Siyu Chen is a multidisciplinary artist of the Chinese diaspora working primarily in drawing, text and video. Her work explores the ghostly sensations between lingering dreams and desires over belonging. Derived from fragments of everyday life, autobiographical details, and visual culture, she creates spatial narratives evoking emotions that remain invisible to hegemonic systems of power. 

Chen has exhibited at Yale Center for Collaborative Arts and Media (New Haven, CT, USA), Accent Sisters (New York, NY, USA), tutu Gallery (Brooklyn, 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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