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 07

Common Life
(2019)


This documentary photography project explores the relationship between family, migration, and shared domestic space through a collaborative photographic process with my father.
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My father moved to New Zealand alone in 2014 to support our family. Two years later, I joined him, and we began living together in a crowded rental house shared with several other tenants.

Private space was limited, and communal areas such as the kitchen and bathroom were shared. Within this environment, my father and I gradually formed our own small living circle, separate from the rest of the household.

At the beginning, I handed the camera to my father and asked him to photograph my daily life. Apart from basic suggestions about framing and subjects, he was free to shoot intuitively.

Seeing myself through his photographs revealed an unfamiliar perspective of my own presence. In response, I decided to document the moments we spent together on his only weekly day off.

An orange peel placed on a windowsill evokes the well-known Chinese essay The Sight of Father's Back, in which a father buys oranges for his son, an image strongly associated with fatherhood in Chinese cultural memory.


Work Title: Lunch Making Record
Medium: Video
Time: 6min25s
Dimension: 720px * 404px
Year: 2019


Lunch Making Record, 2019


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