Yanyun Chen (Chinese: 陈彦云; pinyin: Chén Yànyún; born 1986) is a Singaporean artist who works with charcoal drawings, animation and installation.
Her works feature intergenerational family stories and cultural wounds, which explore tenuous relationships with traditions and scars that live in language.
[4] Following that, she completed a MA in Communications in 2012 and Phd in Philosophy, Art and Critical Theory in 2018 at European Graduate School in Switzerland.
[11] In an interview with art writer Ian Tee, Chen speaks of "the scars that live in language", texturing the physical-psychological wounds on skin with trauma inflicted by a welding gun.
[14] Curator Kimberley Shen describes their works "navigate the precarities of the cultural tropes and expectations of Asian women, in a palpable reclamation of tenderness and strength embedded in the feminine narrative and identity".