Based in NYC
Works
& Exhibitions Archive ︎︎︎
Chen’s artistic practice explores the relationship between humans and their surrounding environments, with a focus on how social structures, technological systems, and everyday settings shape human behavior and emotional experience. Drawing from the logic of the internet and digital culture as a lived condition rather than a virtual space, her work examines how contemporary life is mediated through systems of control, consumption, and interaction. Through painting, photography, video, and performance, Chen constructs playful yet unsettling environments that resemble artificial living spaces—sites where humor, absurdity, and intimacy coexist. Her work proposes alternative ways of inhabiting the world, inviting viewers to reflect on how they move, feel, and exist within their social and spatial surroundings.
Sewing
Curatorial Projects
Annie Chen Ziyao is a New York–based curator / artist whose practice focuses on the social and emotional lives of objects. Her research examines how functional and designed objects move between art, design, and everyday life, and how they shape human behavior, memory, and modes of living. Drawing from a background in visual culture and new media, she approaches objects as active agents within social systems, curating exhibitions that blur the boundaries between art and use, and reframe art as something to be lived with rather than merely observed.
2024 New York
Threads of Connection
New York Textile Month / MFA Textile program at Parsons School of Design
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Threads of Connection
New York Textile Month / MFA Textile program at Parsons School of Design
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