Professor of the Practice

Degree Program Faculty, Graduate Program Advisor

Dr. Yanyun Chen (Singapore & Boston) is an artist and a Professor of the Practice at SMFA Tufts University. Her practice untangles aesthetic, cultural, and technological anatomies, unravelling notions of embodiment and inheritances. She wrestles with questions: what intergenerational weight has been carried in our bodies; how have our families marked us; which bones scaffold our knowledge of the world? Exhibiting internationally, and recipient of prestigious awards including the Singapore National Arts Council Young Artist Award (2020), ArtOutreach IMPART Visual Artist Award (2019), and SAM President’s Young Talents People’s Choice Award (2018), Chen holds a PhD from the European Graduate School, MA in Communications, and BFA in Animation.