Stella Chen
b.1985. Taiwan. Sydney Based, multidisciplinary artist
Education:
2019 - current MPhil, University of New South Wales Art & Design, Sydney, Australia (Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship 2019 - 2021), Viktoria Marinov Scholarship (Recipient, 2019-2020)
2014 - 15 MArt (Painting), University of New South Wales Art & Design, Sydney, Australia
Exhibition History:
Solo Exhibitions:
2017 Facade of Memory (Installation), AIRSpace Projects, Sydney
2017 Living with the Past (Sculpture, Installation, and Photography), Stacks Projects, Sydney
Selected Curated Group Exhibitions:
2019
Standing by the source of the river I cried (Video), Emotional Practices, OPEN (decolonial research initiative) Royal College of Art, London (online)
My Child Labour Anecdote (Installation), commissioned by Inner West Council for Edge Festival, AIRspace Projects, Sydney
UNFIELD: I Love Australia, and Australia Loves Me (Live Performance), research common, UNSW Art and Design, Sydney
Subverting 'The Intolerable Narrative’: What I thought I'd lost was residing in your memory in me (Live Performance), Firstdraft, Sydney
Ferment: I begin to realize how deep my love is for you (Sculpture and Installation), Articulate, Sydney
2018
Platform18: May This Be The Fruit (Live Performance, Installation), Articulate, Sydney
Was Printed Symbiosis Exhibition (Printmaking), Chrissie Cotter Gallery, Sydney
The Open Body: Out-Casted (Live Performance), Scratch Art Space, Sydney
Committee: The Little One (Sculpture), AIRspace Projects, Sydney
2017
Station: She’ll (Sculpture), George Paton Gallery, Melbourne
Was Printed Collective Exhibition (Printmaking), The Corner Gallery, Sydney
Duly Priced Drink (Printmaking), BigCi Bilpin International Ground for Creative Initiatives, NSW
Solidarity: Mending the Memory Gap #3 (Live Performance), Articulate, Sydney
Same Difference: Equinox to Equinox (Live Performance, Video), Beyond Belfast, Ireland
Eternal: Mending the Memory Gap #2 (Live Performance), Cat Street Gallery, Hong Kong
2016
Summer Sojourn, Waiting for Waiting to Come (Painting), Art Atrium, Sydney
28.09.16, Living with the Past (Sculpture, Installation), Home@735, Sydney
SQ1 @ ARO, Mending the Memory Gap #1 (Live Performance), ARO Gallery, Sydney
In Residence, 5 Elements (Painting), Depot Gallery, Sydney
2015
LOCO Project, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Live Performance), Sydney
Three Point Turn, Living with the Past (Sculpture, Installation), Galleries UNSW, Sydney
Identify, The Vessel of Nature (Live Performance, Installation), Monster Mouse, Sydney
Still, The Vessel of Nature (Photograph), Gaffa, Sydney
1200K West, Moon Walk (Photography), AD Space, Sydney
A Temporary Life, The Arrival (Installation), Annandale Creative Arts Centre, Sydney
2014
The List (Live Performance), Marvin Gaye Chetwynd, Campbelltown Arts Centre, NSW
Selected Collaborations/Public Presentations:
FavourEconomy: Interactive Sound Installation at MCA Museum of Contemporary Art on the International Women’s Day (2020), Ricepaper making demonstration workshop, in collaboration with Dylan Goh president of UNSW Make Club (2019), Invited as a guest presenter for Arts, Mental Health and Wellbeing Talk, Peacock Gallery, Cumberland Council (2019), FavourEconomy at Museum of Contemporary Art, Things We Do Together curated by Lara Merett, MCA ARTBAR, Sydney (2019), Invited as a guest artist to perform Taiwanese poetry in response to Christine Ko's Installation, Model Home at Verge Gallery, University of Sydney, Sydney (2018), FavourEconomy Presentation as a co-leader at the conference Doing Feminism/Sharing the World curated by Prof. Anne Marsh, VCA, Melbourne University (2018), Inhabitation of Violence, Collaboration with Artists Melanie Coutts, Katya Peteskaya and Curator Stella Katherine, 541 Art Space, Sydney (2017), Rubberneck, James Needham-Walker & Stella Chen Duo, 107 Project, Sydney (2016)
Awards/Grants/Selected Public Exhibitions:
Contemporary Art Awards, Queensland Government Approved Initiative (Finalist, online, 2016), Waverley Art Prize, Acrylic Painting Prize, Waverley Council, Sydney (Winner, 2016), Women’s Art Prize, City of Ryde, NSW (Finalist, 2016), UNSW Art & Design Grants, Australian Research Council, Sydney (Recipient, 2015), Kudos Emerging Artist Award, Sydney (Highly Commended, 2015), Staedtler Yen Female Art Award, Sydney (Finalist, 2015), Kudos Emerging Artist Award, Sydney (Finalist, 2014)
Collection: Private Collection in Australia, HK, Paris and Austria.
Residencies/Research Studies:
2021 Residency at the CAD Factory (Narrandera)
2019 How to explain pictures to dead peat, (Live Performance research presentation), UNSWAD
2019 MPhil peat bogs research field studies, Trenerry Reserve (Coogee), Namadji NP, Kosciuszko NP, Nantou (Taiwan), Narrandera (NSW)
2019 Felted Form in sculpture with Anita Larkin, National Art School
2018 Skullbone plains residency, Tasmania (Tasmania Land Conservancy) with Annee Mirron
2017 Norma Redpath Studio residency (VCA) with FavourEconomy, Melbourne
2017 Collaborated Research Studies with Geraldine Balcazar, Critical Path, Sydney
2017 Being Animal BMC, Alice Cummins, Sydney
2017 Body Sculpting, Takao Kawaguchi, Critical Path, Sydney
2016 Body Weather Led by Tess De Quincey & Linda Luke, Sydney
2016 Intensive Butoh Tuition with Yoshito Ohno, Tokyo, Japan
2015 Fowler’s Gap Arid Zone Research Station Residency UNSW, NSW
Organization:
National Association for the Visual Arts (NAVA)
base-metal (platform for research/dialogue/exchange for performance art/live art)
FavourEconomy (online audio gift economy platform/archive) co-leader (present)
Ex-AIRspace Projects committee (Non-for-Profit Artist-led initiative) Dec. 2017 - Jan. 2019