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2024



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.

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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

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Medium into material and back into becoming another medium. Photography and the photograph bridge in their countless reflections, intentions and personal memories in order to bring something back, namely an impossible security in being a Taiwanese woman. A half-blood offspring of dying 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.