Profile
 Colleen Chen, born on March 22, 2000, in Shanghai, China, is an interdisciplinary visual artist working with moving images, photography, game environments, and installation design. Through practices in visual storytelling and spatial experience, exploring how image, sound, and interactive media construct alternative ways of seeing and understanding everyday life. Works often draw on personal experience, employing observational and experimental approaches to reflect on the relationship between the individual and their environment.

Education
University of Auckland
Master of Fine Arts 
2025 - 2026

Employment
Remote Illustrator
UGLY (Shanghai) Advertising Co., Ltd. 
2024 - 2025

Primary Art Teacher
The Wonder Centre
2023
Skills
Narrative Development
Visual Storytelling
Graphic Design
Typography
2D Animation
Video Editing
Game Development (Unity, Blender)
Installation Art
Documentary Photography

Exhibitions
MADE IN A DAY
Silo 6
Auckland
2025

ELAM Graduation Show
Elam School of Fine Arts
Auckland
2025



Colleen  ChenArt Portfolio Work Collections 2019-2025 Email: wuyuflower@126.com

Project 04

Between Frames of Daily Life
(2021)


This project explores memory, isolation, and emotional experience during the pandemic through moving-image, illustration, and poetry.















































Produced with: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro
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Fluttering Clothes (2021)

Fluttering Clothes another version (2021)

 B站： Fluttering Clothes (2021)

B站： Fluttering Clothes another version (2021)


Stir the Milk (2021)

Stir the Milk another version (2021)

B站： Stir the Milk (2021)

B站： Stir the Milk another version (2021)
Cat (2021)


B站： Cat (2021)

Cloudy Sky (2021)


B站： Cloudy Sky (2021)


Mum (2021)


B站： Mum (2021)

Work Title: Antagonistic Symbiosis
Medium: Video
Time: 1min7s
Dimension: 981px * 985px
Year: 2021


Antagonistic Symbiosis 拮抗共生 (2021)


B站： Antagonistic Symbiosis 拮抗共生 (2021)





There is no place to turn back



I'm on an isolated island





Every day, I open my eyes and look at the same ceiling



Brush teeth, wash face, comb hair,

and then boil a pot of water



This routine became a ritual

I had to perform every morning





The notion of time gradually faded from my consciousness          



I left the utopia of my inspiration








My life, my emptiness





I live in silence

and I feel the noise



I live in isolation

and I crave excitement



I am ordinary

yet I hate being boring



I want to sing

but my throat closes





Opposing forces

keep tearing at me



I am complete on the outside                                      

and chaotic on the inside


Estrangement, dissociation





I can be myself

I can be anyone else





The observed remains

the observer disappears





How do I establish my existence?                                  





I exist

in this moment



in this moment



Or not


I keep picturing my life



Is it a compulsive act?

Or is it subconscious?





And I shut myself up in a small space,

looking through a window into a finite world                      



Getting the required information

through a screen





Life is rich and colourful,

and boring and pale





In this way

I retreated into my own little world



lost in unreal memories

with the texture of old photographs



Here is my gentle home

my own private haven
Top Work Collections 2019-2025