NEWS


2024



Minnesota State Arts Board FY2025 Grantee for Creative Individual  
I'm excited to announce that I received a grant from MSAB to continue building up my next new project. I will distribute and produce bilingual, sequential art combining text and images to share information on anti-racism/bias based on collective experience, research, and studies toward the BIPOC community before/during/after years of becoming a newcomer.

Again, if you or your friends want to contribute your experiences as a newcomer or immigrant in Minnesota, don't hesitate to contact me. By giving back to your participation, you will get a free copy of this publication once it's printed out and published. And please do share with your friends if you advocate ABAR education in or outside the school. This project will be a free publication for you to share.
I'll host a free event/workshop/public talk soon after February. Stay tuned for upcoming developments.
Tatana Kellner shared, “Wen-Li Chen’s work stood out in its poetic beauty exploring her Kavalan heritage. I was impressed by the haunting imagery delving into the issue of immigration, inheritance, ritual, celebration, and mourning, providing the viewer with a window into her world.”

Jurors —
Jill Chisnell, Paul John, Tatana Kellner
Teach at MCAD, Summer 2024
Continue Education - Play, Redefine, and Explore: Typography as Art Form (in person)
Learn the anatomy of typography and the role it plays in the history of graphic design and art movements, particularly English and Chinese typography and the Dada art movement.

To Register


Artist Book Collected by Minneapolis Central Library
The artist book “On The Other Side of Sea” can be reviewed at Minneapolis Central Libary. Please contact Bailey Diers for more information. 



Artist Book Selected by Juried Group Exhibition
January 13 – February 24, 2024
Arts North International 29
Hopkins Center for the Arts
1111 Mainstreet, Hopkins, MN 55343

January 16 – March 1, 2024
39th Annual International Exhibition
Meadows Gallery, The University of Texas at Tyler
3900 University Blvd., Tyler, Texas 75799

March 21 – May 3, 2024 37th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition
McNeese State University/Dept. of Visual Arts
4205 Ryan St., Lake Charles, LA 70605


PROJECTS ◆


Medium into the material and back into becoming another medium. Photography and the photograph bridge their countless reflections, intentions, and personal memories to bring something back, namely the impossible security of being a contemporary Native Taiwanese woman — An offspring of dying Indigenous People (Kavalan) populated more by old amateur photographs than those living today.

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WEN-LI CHEN ︎

Wen-Li Chen is a Taiwanese-born, Saint Paul-based interdisciplinary artist, arts administrator, and graphic designer. Wen-Li is moved to encounter and present intergeneration, dwelling, and inheritance through oblique poetics, vulnerable histories, enduring relationships, and personal experiences. Her artwork often takes the form of books, photo essays, photography, videos, found objects, and installations. Wen-Li has shown her works internationally and nationally.