Born 1974, Beijing, China
Lives and works in New York
EDUCATION
2003 Purchase College State University of New York, Purchase, New York, MFA
2000 Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, BFA
1995 Secondary Fine Art School of the Central Art Academy, Beijing, China, Diploma
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006
New York, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Yi Chen, March 17 – April 17, 2006
2004
New York, Plum Blossoms Gallery, The Hybrid, Yi Chen and Ying-Yueh Chuang, April 15 – May 15, 2004
2003
New York, Regent Wall Street Hotel, Local-Global, Organized by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (LMCC), November 5, 2003 – January 31, 2004
New York, Gallery 456, Chinese-American Arts Council, Re-figuration, Recent paintings by Yi Chen and Zhang Yu, October 24 – November 26, 2003
Purchase, NY, Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery, Purchase College, The New Species, November 10 – 29, 2003
2002
Purchase, NY, Purchase College, Mass Produced --The Generation of Electronic and Digital Age, Fall 2002
2000
Halifax, NS, Canada, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD, Well Dressed, Fall 2000
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Wellesley, MA, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Don't Look
(Contemporary Drawings from Martina Yamin Collection), September 19, 2007 – December 9, 2007
New York, Abrons Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement, Posing, September 18 - November 11, 2007, curated by Andrea Cote and Joelle Jensen
Los Angeles, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Some Kind of Portrait, June 30 – July 28, 2007
2006
New York, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, Materiality, June 29 – August 25, 2006
New York, House of Campari, 25 Bold Moves- An Exhibition of Contemporary Art (curated by Simon Watson), May 5 – 21, 2006
New York, 2x13 Gallery, Reflection/Refraction, February 9 – March 4, 2006
2005
Chicago, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Mystic Truths (curated by Simon Watson), June 3 – July 9, 2005
2005 Storrs, CT, University of Connecticut Contemporary Art Gallery, Yet, Another Reality: Heads, February 21 – April 8, 2005
2004
New York, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Corporate Corporeality: Chinese Artists Re-examining the Body in the Age of Global Capitalism, March 11 – April 10, 2004
New York, Plum Blossoms Gallery, Alien Bravo, July 5 – August 31, 2004
2003
Los Angeles, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, Cultural Narratives (juried group show), March 7 – 27, 2003
Halifax, NS, Canada, Multicultural Center, Pier 21, Six Stories, Summer 2003
New York, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York Area MFA Exhibition, February 1 – 22, 2003
2002
New York, 323 West Exhibition Space, Once Over (juried exhibition), September 6 – 30, 2002
2000
Halifax, NS, Canada, The Khyber Center for the Arts, Members Exhibition
1998
Halifax, NS, Canada, Anna Leonowens Gallery, NSCAD Up and Over, Fall, 1998
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007
"Artists on Spirituality," ArtAsiaPacific, Winter, 2007, p. 91.
2006
Mullins, Charlotte. Painting People: Figure Painting Today. New York: D.A.P./Distributed Art Publishers, Inc., 2006
Kraft, Jessica, "One to Watch," Artkrush.com, September 6, 2006
"Yi Chen," The New Yorker, April 17, 2006
Johnson, Ken. "The Listings: Yi Chen," New York Times, April 14, 2006, p. E26
"Art: Yi Chen," Flavorpill listing, March 2006
2004
Heartney, Eleanor. "Ying-Yueh Chuang and Yi Chen at Plum Blossoms," Art in America, June/July 2004, p. 184
SELECTED AWARDS
2003
Presidents Award for Excellence, Purchase College, SUNY
2002
Deans Merit Scholarship and Steckler Scholarship Endowment Fund, Purchase College, SUNY
2001
Bernard and Marion Stein Annual Award, and Bernard and Marion Stein Scholarship, Purchase College, SUNY
2000
Endowment Scholarship from the Ronald J. MacAdam Fund, NSCAD, NS, Canada
1999
Mackenzie Scholarship, NSCAD, Halifax, NS, Canada