I-Chun CHEN

Chen I-Chun was born in 1980 in Nantou, Taiwan. She received her Ph.D. from the Department of Fine Arts at the Taipei National University of the Arts in 2024. Her artistic practice spans multiple media including video art, experimental animation, interactive installation, mixed media, and painting. Her work focuses on social issues surrounding industrial areas, urban peripheries, and working-class communities, while exploring personal experiences between reality and illusion through the collection and transformation of folk stories. Through poetic visual language accompanied by romantic music box sounds, her works offer observations and responses to social realities while conveying a seemingly quixotic hope and expectation. Through this unique narrative approach, she attempts to establish a profound dialogue with contemporary society through her artistic creation. She currently lives and works in Taiwan.

Her works have been exhibited at significant biennials, art festivals, and art fairs across Taiwan, India, Brazil, Japan, China, Israel, South Korea, Singapore, Macao, the United States, Austria, Germany, Russia, and other countries. In 2018, she participated in the "Film Sector" at Art Basel Hong Kong, and in 2017, she was invited to the Ars Electronica Festival in Austria. Her work was also featured in the "Film Library" section at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2015. Her works have been collected multiple times by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, demonstrating her significant achievements in the field of contemporary art.