Chen Di is an artist based in London. Chen’s practice combines speculative fictional documentaries, organic moving sculptures, digital games, and sound. Chen’s latest projects steal and transform ideas, methodologies, and stories from animism, finance, techniques of magic, agriculture and biotechnology industries, internet-oriented mass sociogenic bodily symptoms as well as Chen’s family gatherings. Chen’s work has been part of exhibitions and events in ICA London, Mark Leckey’s monthly NTS show, London/NTS Radio, The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, Frappant Galerie, Hamburg, TANK Shanghai, and Space Ubermensch, Busan.
Education
MA Computational Arts, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 2021-2022
MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK, 2017-2019
BA Fine Art (Experimental Art), Central Academy of Fine Arts, CN, 2013-2017
Selected Exhibitions and Events
Conditions: film and video screening, ICA, London, 2024
comms, SET Woolwich, London, 2024
Esoteritech, Conditions, Mark Leckey's monthly NTS show, London/NTS Radio, 2024
𝑶𝒑𝒆𝒓𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝑻𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒓𝒆 𝑷𝒓𝒑𝒃𝒍0𝒐𝒅 𝑳𝒂𝒃, SYSTEM 系统, Shanghai, 2024
Conditions Exhibition 2022-23, Whitgift Centre, London, 2023
Beyond, The Crypt Gallery, London, 2023
Subterranean Organ, The Crypt Gallery, London, 2023
Infinite Collision Hour, Conditions, Mark Leckey's monthly NTS show, London/NTS Radio, 2023
Bring Your Own Beamer (BYOB), LUX x The Bomb Factory Art Foundation, London, 2022
(sub)systems, Goldsmiths, London, 2022
Spectacle For Later, Rio Cinema, London, 2022
False Clarity, Frappant Galerie, Hamburg, 2022
Ghost Show: The Haunted House, Copeland Park/Bussey Building, London, 2022
Parental Guidance, SET Lewisham, London, 2022
Ghost Show, Hartslane Gallery, London, 2022
Soft Focus, Space Ubermensch, Busan, 2021
Tank Art Festival, Tank Shanghai, Shanghai, 2021
活體洞, Virtue Village, Hong Kong, 2021
Plusgood, Enclave Lab, London, 2020
sea2serafim, selected ontology screening, Seager Gallery, London, 2019
MFA Fine Art Degree Show, Goldsmiths, London, 2019
In the Mean Time [], Enclave Lab, London, 2019
Translation and Then, AMP Studios, London, 2018
DeptfordX, Deptford Bridge Studios, London, 2018
BA Fine Art Degree Show, CAFA, Beijing, 2017
Triennium Montage, Underground Space, Beijing, 2016
LiveAt, Intelligentsia Gallery, Beijing, 2015
The Civil Power, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing, 2015
Awards
M WOODS Scholarship, The New Centre for Research & Practice, 2020
Distinction Scholarship, CAFA, Beijing, 2017 and 2016
Residencies & Groups
LUX Critical Forum, London, 2023 - ongoing
Conditions Studio Program, London, 2022 - ongoing
The New Centre for Research & Practice, online, 2020 - 2022
Soft Focus Online Residency, Busan/online, 2021
Publication & Review
'Chen Di: Cyclone Complex – On Messy Credit and Foiled Realities', Sanjita Majumder, no exits Magazine, September 2024