Hsi-lun Chen

Working with photography and long-term research-based projects on diaspora, memory, and migration. Based in London.

Artist Residency

2024–25 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris

Exhibition

▎Women and Work

2026, Group exhibition, MIRA Artes Performativas, Porto, Portugal

▎Orange

2025, Group exhibition, The Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow

▎Barely Noticed

2023, Group exhibition, Four Corners Film and photography centre, London, UK

▎YIGONG, YIMA(Grandparents) ── the Elderly in Matsu

Solo exhibitions (2015-2016):

Edlee Gallery, Taipei; Taoyuan City Department of Cultural Affairs; Matsu Folk Culture Museum, Taiwan. 

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Awards / Recognition‍ ‍

▎2024 The Royal Photographic Society International Photography Exhibition 166/Shortlisted

▎2024 PX3, Le Prix de la Photographie de Paris /Honorable Mention

▎2023 IPA, International Photography Awards /Honorable Mention ＆ Official Selection

▎2018 IPA, International Photography Awards /Honorable Mention

Publications

Visual Poetry Journal — selected artist (2026)

The Poem of My Island — Vista Publishing, co-author (visual content) and book designer (2018)

Talks & Academic Engagement

▎Université Paris Cité — Symposium Right to the City (2025)

▎Inalco, Paris — Guest Lecture on Matsu Islands and contemporary Taiwanese society (2025)

▎Community Association of West Hampstead, UK — Artist talk (2024)