Christine Chen is an Australian-born, New York-based curator, arthistorian, and writer whose work centers on diasporic aesthetics, transnationalnarratives, and the visual histories of communities often absent from officialarchives. Rooted in deep, interdisciplinary research, her practice embracescommunity-rooted, cross-cultural approaches that challenge systems of erasure,attending to migration, memory, and racial identity.
She is drawn to what gets expressed beyond the written record, acrossforms as varied as painting, performance, photography, craft, and everydaycultural practices. Many of the histories she studies survive not in writingbut through images, objects, gestures, and acts of remembrance, held with careand passed between generations of people and communities. She views exhibitionsas a way of bringing these traces into dialogue, allowing overlooked narrativesto endure on their own terms.
She currently serves asCuratorial Research and Gallery Associate at Thomas Nickles Project. She haspreviously held positions at the Wallach Art Gallery, Lehmann Maupin Gallery,and the Aboriginal Artists Agency, and holds an MA from Columbia University anda combined BA/LLB from the University of New South Wales.
