As a multi-disciplinary, conceptual and project-based artist, Ms. Xuan Chen decides upon the media that best fits the concept of each project: painting,site-specific sculptures/installation, drawing, animated films, or combinations of the aforementioned. Born in Mainland China, Ms. Chen has lived in the San Francisco Bay Area and Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her art is rooted in her dual experiences in China and the US. Her artworks have been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows in galleries, museums and film festivals and she has won many national and international awards/grants including 2014 Dorothy Yeck Award (Young Painters Award), Working Artist Award in 2013, 1st place
in New Mexico's Contemporary Art Society award in 2012, New Visions Film Grant in 2009, City of Albuquerque Public Art Collections, etc.