Before working as an art teacher to children based in Vancouver, Canada, Cheryl Chen had finished studying art craft and graphic design back in China in the 1990s. After the short-term working experience for a newspaper publisher in Vancouver in...
Read MoreBefore working as an art teacher to children based in Vancouver, Canada, Cheryl Chen had finished studying art craft and graphic design back in China in the 1990s. After the short-term working experience for a newspaper publisher in Vancouver in 2004, she decided to go back to school and finished a diploma program in Graphic Design in 2012 to continue her career after maternity leave. However, after graduating from the Art Institute of Vancouver, her career route changed by chance, thanks to an internship to teach art in an education center. Now, she has been working in fine arts for almost ten years, and she feels the urgency and the need to upgrade herself again. After completing the first year of the BFA program at the University of British Columbia (UBC), she decided to go to the University of Arts in London (UAL) to take a master’s degree in fine art in Printmaking to seek more opportunities to explore the professional area.
As an experienced artist, Cheryl is willing to open her mind to the scope of the world of visual art, holding speculative and optimistic attitudes toward the unknown challenges. She values the effective communication between the artwork and the viewers and the connection between artists and the world. She believes that expressing oneself and making voices for the social occurrences are indispensable as an existence in this Anthropocene.
