Jenny Jiaying Chen is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the School of Humanities, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, independent curator, and writer. She obtained her PhD from the Department of Western Philosophy at East China Normal University, focusing on the frontier research of the body, new materialism and the metaphysics of sex. She has recently turned to diaspora aesthetics inspired by feminist and postcolonial theories and is also concerned with the localization practice of art theory. At the same time, she sees art as a concrete means of subverting the existing partition of the sensible and frames of intelligibility. She has previously worked at MadeIn Company and as the Art Director of Longlati Foundation. She has contributed to many art media and won the “Hyundai Blue Prize 2019.”

She holds a BA from the China Academy of Art and received her MA from Lancaster University (UK). Her article was included in Forces of Reticulation and Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence, published by Springer, among others. She also participated in the compilation of the Shanghai Contemporary Art Archival Project 1998–2010. Recent Projects include: “Zhang Yibei: Please No Helmet”, Longlati Foundation (2024); “Wilhelm Sasnal: Under the Asphalt”, Longlati Foundation (2023); “Let 100 Reading Groups Bloom: Meeting Others Halfway”, supported by Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Swiss Arts Council (2022–2023); “Bio/Media: Entangled Reading Group”, Chronus Art Center (CAC), Shanghai; “USB Multi-Port connect Exhibition”, multiple art spaces in Shanghai (2021); “AI: Love and Artificial Intelligence”, Hyundai Motorstudio, Beijing (2020); “Copernicus”, E.M.Bannister Gallery of Rhode Island College, Providence (2019).