Siyu Chen (she/her) was born in Shanghai, China, raised in Shanghai and Singapore, currently based in New York. She is a multidisciplinary artist woking primarily with drawing, video, and text. The difficulty in grasping the meaning of “belonging” lies at the core of her work. Her work interweave obsessions, losses and humor, with an emphasis on the diasporic experience. By juxtaposing mundanity with seemingly outdated objects, memories and dreams, she reflects upon hegemonic categories of the body, which reduces and flattens the fluidity of everyday life.

Chen has exhibited at tutu Gallery (New York, 2024), FJORD (Philadelphia, 2024), Arts Letters and Number (Upstate New York, 2018), am art space (Shanghai, 2020), Studio Gallery (Shanghai, 2020), Bumpodo Gallery (Tokyo, 2017), and more. Her work has been collected by Awagami Paper (Tokushima, 2017). She has recently launched her first curation project “Meandering, Spiraling, Unraveling” at Accent Sisters (Jersey City, 2024). She is a mentee at the NYFA Immigrant Artist Program (New York, 2025). 

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