Chiarina Chen is a New York-based independent curator and writer, whose practice bridges diaspora studies, critical posthuman theory, and forensic aesthetics. With a background in psychology and art history, she explores the intersections of identity, technology, and material agency through exhibitions spanning multimedia, sound installations, cyborg performances, and experimental theater.

Her notable curatorial projects include Poetics of Inquiry: How to Stay with Trouble (MIT, Massachusetts), The Tale of Errantry (Chain Theater, New York), Is This Intimacy? (University of Applied Arts Vienna, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna), Magic Back to Town (Cyborg Foundation, Posthuman Research Center, NYU, New York), Collecting Anxiety Series (multi-venue across New York City and worldwide), and The Wasteland of the Future (Shanghai Himalayas Museum, Fudan University, Shanghai). Previously, she worked with The FLAG Art Foundation, contributing to exhibitions featuring Jeff Koons, Cecily Brown, Charles Ray, and Betty Tompkins.

Chen is a presenter at the 25th World Congress of Philosophy in Rome and a founding member of the New York Posthuman Research Group. She has given talks at MIT, Columbia University, NYU, Utrecht University, ISCP, City University of Hong Kong, and Fudan University. She also serves as an annual reviewer and curator for the American Society of Media Photography (ASMP) New York Chapter and as a speaker and advisor at TEDx Shenzhen.

She 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.