Yanyun Chen

Yanyun Chen (b. 1986, Singapore) is an artist. She runs a charcoal-based drawing and installation practice, and her works respond to writing — fictional and philosophical — as well as aesthetic traditions and techniques. She was presented with the People’s Choice Award for The scars that write us at the President’s Young Talents 2018 exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum, and is the winner of the 2019 ArtOutreach IMPART Visual Artist Award.

 She received her PhD (Summa Cum Laude) from The European Graduate School. She is a full-time lecturer in the Arts & Humanities division of Yale-NUS College in Singapore, and the founder of illustration and animation studio Piplatchka.

 She lives and works in Singapore