Chiarina Chen is a New York based independent curator and writer. From a background in psychology and art history, her curatorial praxis explores diaspora conditions and posthuman kinship. She has produced international projects that merge art and emotional technology, ranging from mixed media, video photography, and sound installations to cyborg performances and experimental theater. Her key series include Poetics of Inquiry: How to Stay with Trouble (MIT), Collecting Anxiety (Multi Venues in New York City and Worldwide),  Is This Intimacy? (University of Applied Arts Vienna and Krinzinger Projekte), Magic Back to Town (Cyborg Foundation, Posthuman Research Center at New York University), and The Wasteland of the Future (Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Art Center at Philosophy Department, Fudan University). Earlier at New York FLAG Art Foundation, she landed exhibitions of Jeff Koons, Cecily Brown, Charles Ray, and Betty Tompkins. She has given talks and curated projects at institutions including MIT, 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.