Lena Chen is a Chinese American writer and artist creating performances and socially engaged art. Awarded “Best Emerging Talent” at B3 Biennial of the Moving Image (Frankfurt), her work has appeared at Transmediale (Berlin), Färgfabriken (Stockholm), Baltimore Museum of Art, Haus der Kulturen der Welt (Berlin), Centre for Contemporary Art (Derry~Londonderry), among others.
She has been awarded grants and residencies from UC Berkeley’s Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity, Millay Colony for the Arts (Austerlitz), Office of Public Art (Pittsburgh), Burning Man Global Arts Fund (San Francisco), Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry (Pittsburgh), and Arthur Boskamp Foundation (Hohenlockstedt, Germany). She has spoken at Oxford, Yale, Stanford, and SXSW. More on her website: www.lenachen.com