Chen Jiaying (b.1991, Fuzhou) lives and works in Shanghai and New York. She is a doctoral candidate in Western  philosophy at East China Normal University and an independent writer and curator. Chen’s early practice revolved around technological reality and its permeation of the humanistic landscape. Recently, She turned to the question of the mind and body and its radicalization by technology, and was inspired by English scientist Alan Turing to delve into an inquiry of sexuality. Her PhD thesis ‘More Than Sex? Thought on Feminist Body and Matter’ focuses on the frontiers of the body, new materialism, and the metaphysics of sex. At the same time, Chen sees art as a means of subverting the existing partitions of the sensible and intelligible. She is currently a member of the Longlati Foundation Writers Collection Committee and a  of the Academic Committee of  Phenomenology and Media Society.

In 2019, she won the 3rd Hyundai Blue Prize Future Innovation Award for her exhibition ‘AI: Love and Artificial Intelligence’. In 2018, she was shortlisted for the ‘Emerging Curators Project 2018’ hosted by The Power Station of Art, Shanghai. In 2016, she was shortlisted for the International Awards for Art Criticism held by Shanghai 21st Century Minsheng Art Museum. She holds a BA from China Academy of Art and received her MA in Contemporary Art Consultancy from Lancaster University in 2014. From 2015 to 2019, she held a position at MadeIn Company. She has contributed to ArtReview China, Artforum, Ocula, and Heichi and her writing was featured  in ‘Forces of Reticulation’, published by China Academy of Art Press. ‘Shanghai Contemporary Art Archival Project 1998-2012’, which she co-authored, was published and distributed by MOUSSE. Recent projects curated and participated in include ‘Let 100 Reading Groups Bloom Season II: Meeting Others Halfway’, supported by Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council at Special Edition Project, Shanghai, Topred Center for Contemporary Art (TCCA) (2022-23), ‘USB Multi-Port connect Exhibition’, MadeIn Gallery,Gallery Func, and Qiao Space, Shanghai (2021), ‘AI: Love and Artificial Intelligence’, Hyundai Motorstudio, Beijing (2020); ‘Copernicus’, E.M.Bannister Gallery of Rhode Island College, Providence, U.S (2019); ‘Liquid Health’, Goethe Open Space Shanghai (2019); ‘Shanghai Curators Lab’, Shang Academy of Fine Arts (2018).

2022 Self-Declaration: Ineffective Creation and Eternal Return