Chiarina Chen Chiarina Chen is a New York based independent curator and writer. From a background of psychology and art history, her curatorial praxis explores diaspora condition and posthuman kinship. She has produced international projects that merge art and emotional technology, ranging from mixed media, sound installations to cyborg performance and experimental theater. Her Key series include Collecting Anxiety, Is This Intimacy? , Magic Back to Town, and The Wasteland of the Future. Earlier at New York FLAG Art Foundation, she landed exhibitions of Jeff Koons, Cecily Brown, Charles Ray, and Betty Tompkins. She has given talks at institutions including Columbia University, Utrecht University, New York University, New York Institute of Technology, and Fudan University. 

She is also the annual reviewer and curator at the American Society of Media Photography (ASMP) New York Chapter, the founding member of the Posthuman Research Group at New York University, and speaker and advisor at TEDx Shenzhen. 

Chen holds a Master’s in Contemporary Art Management and Criticism from Sotheby’s Institute of Art and a Bachelor’s in Psychology, specializing in cognitive and criminal psychology, from Syracuse University.