Yanyun ChenYanyun Chen (b.1986, Singapore) works in charcoal. Her studio-based practice is driven by questions and craft, through contemplating the relationships between theory, process, method, and the art work. She attempts to open conversations about what itmeans to draw, read, think, respond. Her works revolve around the themes of suspension and animation of death/dying, memory/memorials, light and atmosphere, and nudity/nakedness/bare. Her first exhibited series Chasing Flowers challenges the "still-life" genre, by making charcoal portraits of flowers as the flowers wilt and decay. Her drawings were exhibited in Singapore, notably ChanHampe Galleries, Visual Arts Development Association Singapore, and NoiseSingapore. She is a Ph.D. candidate at the European Graduate School in Switzerland, where she obtained her Masters in Communications. She received the Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal Award and the Nanyang Scholarship for her Bachelors in Fine Arts [Hons] 1st class from Nanyang Technological University (Singapore); and has been trained at the Florence Academy of Art (Sweden), The Animation Workshop (Denmark), and under puppet makers Miroslav Trejtnar and Zdar Sorm (Czech Republic). Currently, she teaches drawing at Yale-NUS College and Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Read More Read Less