jasmine chen

Public Engagement and Museum Collection 

Finalist for the Dewey Square Mural Open Call, Boston, Mass. (2026) 

Public Ink Portrait Making, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, Mass. (2023, 2025)

Visiting Artist At Massachusetts College of Art (2024)

“Expensive Orphanage” was purchased by Danforth Art Museum in 2021 for its permanent collection.

Artful Piano, Newton, Mass. (2017)

selected exhibitions

(Upcoming…) Dewey Square Mural Finalist Exhibit (June-Dec. 2026)

Reflections: Selfhood/Motherhood, Umbrella Arts, Concord, Mass (June-Sept. 2024)

Matresense, MassArt x Sowa (June-July 2024)

People and Places, North Hill Gallery, Needham, Mass (July-Sept. 2024)

Tidal Shift, UNE Art Gallery, Biddeford, Maine (Jan-May 2024)

BodyWork + Practice, Storefront Art Projects, Watertown, Mass. (Sept-Oct 2023)

Inside/Out, two-person exhibit, BB&N Gallery, Cambridge, Mass (2023)

(Juror’s Choice) Red, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, Mass. (2022-23)

Danforth Art Museum Permanent Collection Exhibit, Danforth, Framingham, Mass. (2022-23)

The New Drawing Room, MassArt x Sowa Gallery, Boston, Mass. (2022)

National Prize Show, Kathryn Schultz Gallery, Cambridge, Mass. (2022)

(Second Prize) 22nd Annual Roddy Exhibit, Concord Center for the Visual Arts (2021)

Holding Duality Still, Lana Gordon Gallery, Rockport, Mass. (2021)

Family Circle, Danforth Art Museum at Framingham State University (2020)

Women Artists of West Suburban Boston, Massachusetts

State House (2019-2020)

Booth of Jen Tough Gallery, Santa Fe Art Fair (2018)

Really, Matter and Light Fine Art, Boston, Mass. (2017)

Danforth Art Annual, Danforth Art Museum (2016)

Precedents/Currents: Ten Artists in Conversation with Newton's Past, Jackson Homestead Museum, Newton, Mass. (2016)

artist statement

Growing up moving between China and America, having lived in many distinctive neighborhoods, I have been a part of a wide spectrum of communities that don’t overlap. My art reflects the struggle to make sense of my place and identity by making connections across time, societies, and places. R.B. Kitaj defined a diasporist artist as someone who lives and paints in two societies at the same time. The unsettled nature of a diasporist's existence is an important source of inspiration for my art. For the immigrant, the ocean no longer establishes a definitive barrier. The internet, for instance, enables a constant partial exposure to people and places from the past. Memory and imagination are both fed and interrupted by this, and accounting for one’s origins and place can be more problematic than ever. My works respond to this condition. 

residencIes

SEAR Residency (Spring 2023) Vermont Studio Center Residency (August 2023) Umbrella Arts (Fall of 2023) Storefront Art Projects (January of 2024)

education

Harvard College (BA) Brandeis University (PhD)

One Childhood, Solo Exhibit, New Art Center, Newton, Mass. (2016)

Cut It Out, Gallery One Visual Art Center, Ellensburg, Wash. (2016)

Concerning the Spiritual in Abstract Art, Matter and Light Fine Art (2015-2016)

Paintings by Jasmine Chen, Coldwell Banker Newton Center Branch (2014)

Off the Wall, Danforth Art Museum (2013)

(First Prize) Newton Art Association Bonnar Show, New Art Center (2013)

(First Prize) Newton Art Association Fall Exhibit, Newton Free Library (2012)

Jasmine Chen and Julie Klein, two-person show, New Art Center (2012)

Community of Artists, Danforth Art Museum, Framingham, Mass. (2012)

Brandeis University Faculty and Staff Art Show, Waltham, Mass. (2008)