Zi Chen Email & Phone Number

美国

Co-founded an art historian-led initiative that aims to serve as a bridge between MA Art History and MFA students at the School of Art Institute of Chicago to foster a transdisciplinary community and to provide opportunity to exercise professional collaboration between both cohorts. Organized three monthly AAH Conversations, two external collaborations with W. Gallery and John David Mooney Foundation this fall, each had a great turnout of 20-35 people across all disciplines and have received interests from artists to collaborate in the spring.

Shanghai, China

· Built up social media content matrix across multiple media such as museum website, Instagram, and TikTok to better transmit RAM’s new oceanic vision and to connect with our audience spiritually during the pandemic· Worked closely with curatorial team to design and conduct remote research projects and conceptual exhibitions, including RAM’s commissioned project “Jasphy Zheng: Stories from the Room” and Ethiopian research group AstroBus’s 2021 travel project· Collaborated with the education team in designing online workshop, digital publication, and museum renovation video· Developed RAM’s new digital platform RAM+ with Cai Guo-Qiang Studio and TR Lab to bring sustainable values in supporting digital and NFT arts and to create professional condition and invent new curatorial practices

美国

Curated group show “Humus” with eight graduate artists, writers, filmmakers, sculptors involved in ecocritical thoughts and larger themes of material, earth, indigeneity, boundaries, and alternatives.

中国 上海市

·Define the distinctive identity of a contemporary art gallery within a bookstore; discover, initiate, and curate solo exhibitions of emerging artists: Hu Yun, Lee Kyoungmi, Huang Zhe, Liang Haojie, Gao Mingyan, etc.·Research and manage collections of art works, complete preparatory works including curatorial statement and artist’s biography, and provide on-site support for the traveling exhibition KOHEI NAWA: Metamorphosis·Host online lectures with international collaborated and presented artists and architects: Kohei Nawa, Tado Ando, Kengo Kuma to extend the conversation with our reader beyond their publications·Found art community “Art Circle” for inviting galleries and museums into the bookstore gallery space, share resource and audience through collaborative exhibitions, educational workshops and lectures; collaborators include UCCA, PSA, AIKE, Vanguard Gallery, White Stone Gallery

Paris Area, France

- Communication Management (Google +, Google business, Instagram, Facebook, and WeChat), - Develop WeChat account for expanding the market in China - Assist launching Solo Exhibition of artist RETRO- Assist Spanish duo-artists PichiAvo's private event during Art Basel Miami

Beijing City, China

- responsible for client inquires about auctions- managing social media and research for press publications - researching for writing catalogue

Greater Boston Area

- assist launching three fall exhibitions - organize Vose’s large inventory of artists’ letters (from the 1840s to present)- conduct monthly email and physical marketing

Nanjing, Jiangsu, China

- conduct audience research and design diverse educational programs for different age groups;- collection management and curatorial assistant

Baltimore, Maryland Area

- Archive, take photography and update data for undocumented artworks, - Research and curation for the Chinese Folk Pottery Exhibition

Master Of Arts - Ma, Modern & Contemporary Art History In The Art History, Theory, And Criticism Department

Bachelor'S Degree, History Of Art And Architecture

Activities and Societies: Art History Association at Boston University (AHA)

Bachelor'S Degree, French Studies

Activities and Societies: Association Francophone de Boston University (AFBU)

High School Diploma

Activities and Societies: Student Diversity Leadership Council; Head of Grizzly Guide of Admission Office