Chen grew up between Hong Kong and the United Kingdom during the Hong Kong handover, prior to moving to the United States to attend Brown University, where she received her BA Honors in Visual Arts and double major in International Relations in 2015.
Her work has been exhibited by United Kingdom Parliament, Shanghai Hosane Auction House, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, Perry & Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University Investment Office and is part of private collections in several international cities.
According to her bio, Chen, as a first-generation American, surveys members of her racial community from a psychological viewpoint, as she attempts to readjust her own perspectives of looking from both the lens of an ethnic majority in one part of the world to that of a minority in another. She often uses the interior-exterior juxtaposition as a metaphor to convey themes of dissonance, duality, a search for belonging, and millennial anxieties framed by the digital world.