Li Chen (b. 1986, China) is a visual artist and filmmaker. She holds a BA in film production from Griffith University in Australia and an MA in film curating from Birkbeck College, University of London in the UK. She was also an artistic research fellow in the PreDoc program in Performing Arts and Film at the Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland.
Her practice is deeply influenced by Asian minimalist cinema, with a particular interest in the Chinese concept of the “empty shot”. This aesthetic informs her transdisciplinary work across moving image, photography, writing, and installation. She experiments with the empty shot image to explore the entanglement of memory, history, and emotion in the contemporary landscapes. Besides her artistic work, Li Chen is an accomplished documentary filmmaker. Her documentary films have been exhibited at the Shanghai Urban Space Season, the Beijing International Music Festival, and the Venice Architecture Biennale.