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an independent curator and arts writer based in New York, Toronto,
and Tel-Aviv. She is also the Program & Operations Manager at Artis, and until recently, served as the Executive Director of Flux Factory, a non-profit arts center in Queens, NY. Chen holds an M.A. from Bard College's Center for Curatorial Studies, a B.A. in Anthropology, and a B.F.A. in Visual Art from York University.
Chen's recent exhibitions include Emotional Blackmail at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery (Sept. 2011) and her most recent shows were Into the Eye of the Storm at the Israeli Center for Digital Art, and Double Take Triple Give at the Museums of Bat Yam. Others shows include Life Stories at TPW (with a master workshop at Union Docs), Stutter and Twitch at the Justina Barnicke Gallery and the Mobile Archive at Art in General. (An interview of Chen and Galit Eilat by Thom Donovan about the Mobile Archive is on Fanzine.)
Chen's writing has been published in Flash Art, C Magazine, Ciel Variable, BlackFlash, and various monographs. See One After Another, a curatorial project recently at The National Gallery of Saskatchewan. An embarrassing article about Chen was published in Manhattan Magazine. Check out Chen's contribution to Ex-Territory, the 2009 Athens Biennial, and Reverse Pedagogy.
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