Practice

Hsi-Lun Chen is a Taiwanese artist based between London and Taipei, working across photography and moving image.

Her practice develops through long-term observation and sustained engagement with particular places. She explores how relationships with people, places, and other forms of life gradually emerge through intimacy, everyday routines, repeated encounters, and quiet acts of attention.

Her projects unfold over extended periods, allowing relationships, memories, and overlooked gestures to emerge through time. Photography and moving image become ways of remaining with a place—staying long enough for everyday life to reveal its quieter rhythms and complexities.

She holds an MA in Photography and Urban Cultures from Goldsmiths, University of London. Before focusing on her artistic practice, she worked for over a decade in photography and documentary image-making. Her work has been presented in Taiwan, the United Kingdom, France, and Portugal, and she was an artist-in-residence at Cité internationale des arts, Paris (2024–25).

Selected Highlights
▎2026
National Culture and Arts Foundation Project Grant, Taiwan
▎2024–25
Artist-in-Residence, Cité internationale des arts, Paris
▎2024
Shortlisted, Royal Photographic Society International Photography Exhibition 166
▎2016
Solo Exhibition, Matsu Folk Culture Museum, Taiwan