1992 Born in Dalian, Liaoning Province

2016 Graduated from the English Department of the Foreign Language College of Liaoning Normal University with a bachelor’s degree

2015 Graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the Art College of Bohai University with a master’s degree

Currently works and lives in Dalian

GROUP EXHIBITION

2022
The Great Mother-A Response to 59^th Venice Biennial, No Space & Buoyant Art, online

2021

2020 Luo Zhongli Scholarship Exhibition, Luo Zhongli Museum, Chongqing, China

Loop Break: Young Artists Co-Exhibition, China Academy of Art, Ningbo, China

ARTPOWER 2.0，EveryArt×Xiaohongshu, online

China Australia Artists Invitational Exhibition, Magic Tree Art Space, Baoding, China

Exhibition of Contemporary Chinese art works, Ibo Art Space, online

2020

"Temperature in the North - Refactor" Closing Exhibition, Ailleurs lab, Shenyang, China

Art and Design Education: FutureLab, West Bund Museum, Shanghai, China

Venice International Art Fair, ITSLIQUID, Venice, Italy

National College Students Graduation Works exhibition, Hebei Young Artists Association, online

2019

The Northern Temperature：”Border”, Ailleurs Lab, Shenyang, China

The 13th National Art Exhibition and Comprehensive Materials Painting Exhibition, China Artist Association, Ningbo, China

The 16th Jinzhou Art Exhibition, Jinzhou Artist Association, Jinzhou, China

2018

128 Tibet Cultural Life Experience week of Tibetan Handicraft University Achievement Exhibition, Lhasa, China

2017

The 9th Art and Design Exhibitions of Chinese Universities, Sino-Foreign Vision Research Institute, Beijing, China

Chen Cen (1992 -), who started to create in 2017, has been troubled by anxiety disorder and regarded art as her important treatment. She insists on taking experimental art as the research direction. In terms of personal artistic concepts, she pays more attention to challenging the established cultural and artistic territory than to emphasizing the use of new materials and technologies. Influenced by the earlier professional background, she expounds artistic ideas in combination with interdisciplinary perspectives such as literature and linguistics. It interprets contemporary art in multiple dimensions and in her works.

It mainly makes the audience become the creators and components of the artworks by participatory interactive device forms nowadays,which blurring the boundaries between the artist, the work and the audience, and enabling individuals to participate in the creation of art. In the traditional viewing mode, the work-audience relationship is unitary convey and acceptance, and it assumes that the audiences have certain cultural capital to understand the works, which forming an elite idea that art is only for a single group to experience. Audiences are no longer viewers, but changed the relationship between audiences and artists through artworks. It shifts the audience's identity unwittingly, with the audience becoming the core to the artwork. Considering that there are many possible choices in different environments and stages, as well as the limitations and problems of different works, she has been tried to focus more spatial explorations on gallery buildings, artist studios or non exhibition venues, and continue to explore how to change the communication between works, artists and participants from one-way to multi-way. With opening up different perspectives on culture, identity and society, answers will been found in the exploration of contemporary art subject and subject remodeling.