Alison Chen

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		<title>Contact</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Sep 2023 00:13:23 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Alison Chen</dc:creator>

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alison@alisonchen.com

Instagram: @_alisonchen

+1 917 796 3250


For questions, inquiries, and potential collaborations, send an email.
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2023 21:19:18 +0000</pubDate>

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A Hole to the Water
Jimei X Arles International Photo Festival

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		<title>The Tenderness of Tides</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2026 07:18:17 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>THE TENDERNESS OF TIDES
Curated by Maria Sprowls
Filter Photo&#38;nbsp;
Chicago, IL
11.07.2025 - 12.20.2025Moon and mother, both satellite creatures, exercise a pull toward their respective worlds. A mother’s child can become her whole world, as the force of her gravity touches and affects every single bit of the child.
The gravitational relationship between Moon and Earth parallels the dynamics of the bond between mother and offspring; it is a force that endures throughout the lifetime of both, and reverberates long after one of them is gone. Tides are determined by the Moon’s pull, as its gravity tugs at Earth, shifting its mass and distorting its shape ever so slightly. The pull is strongest on the points closest to the Moon and weakest on the points farthest away, but every single bit of water is affected.
In The Tenderness of Tides, curated by María Sprowls-Cervantes, Alison Chen explores water and its relationship to the moon’s gravitational pull—the magic of invisible forces that dictate the rhythm of the ocean. Such a relationship is perceived and manifested by Chen as both cosmic and intimate, a dance that has existed long before us, and will continue long afterwards.
This body of work began as an organic documentation of Chen's daily experiences in motherhood and greatly expanded when she found a photograph of her maternal grandmother as a new mother holding her newborn daughter. The photograph was rediscovered upon her grandmother’s death at the end of 2019. On that same trip, she heard her mother’s last words to her own mother, who lay cold on the mortician’s table. Knowing the tenuousness of their relationship and gazing upon this celebratory image taken during her traditional Chinese one-month celebration, the artist wondered: “How do we learn what mothering should look like? How does our own generational and cultural trauma factor into our ideas of what it means to care for our children?”
Like the tides, Chen frequently finds herself pulled by forces in her own motherhood journey that are invisible and lay beneath the surface—the residual and inherited trauma of generations past. The artist exists in a constant navigation between her personal beliefs, experiences, and the historical hardships of the past.

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		<title>A Hole To The Water - Statement</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jan 2025 07:14:08 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>A HOLE TO THE WATER
 Shortlisted Artist for the Discovery Award at Jimei X Arles International Photo Festival Nominated by Yingying Gan and Yichen Zhou Jimei Art Center Xiamen, China 11.29.2024 - 1.12.2025
 CURATORIAL STATEMENT
Alison Chen is an artist born in the US. S, she
has been continuously exploring her emotional voyage over the past decade
through photography, video and performance, capturing her experiences in
romantic relationships, marriage, childbirth, and motherhood. The physical and
emotional changes that women experience throughout different
life stages are so subtle, &#38;nbsp;and universal, and &#38;nbsp;that they often overlookedunspoken,
even by women themselves. These flowing shifting
emotions have all been captured by Alison’s work, including every moment of
ecstasy and downfall traced in her intimate relationship with her husband.


As Alison continued to explore intimacy, her
perspective shifted to focus on motherhood after the birth of her two children,
with “motherhood” becoming a new role in her work. During the
process of raising her children, Alison also began to reevaluate rethink
the influence of intergenerational relationships between herself
and the women in her family. “Water” appears
frequently as a metaphor in her work. As a second-generation Chinese-American,
the waters represent the physical distance between her and her family's history. Alison’s connection to her family’s cultural
background, experiences, and emotions feels as if she’s looking across a vast
body of water, unable to fully reach the other side. Water symbolizes both the
division across national borders and the biological link between generations,
as a baby’s first home as an embryo is swimming in the amniotic fluid of the
womb. Photography is the tool Alison uses to navigate this vast expanse of
water. The archival images in her work point to past events, but through
re-photographing, re-interpreting, and interacting with these images, Alison
intervenes in these historical moments. The projection onto her family’s archival
photographss introduces another layer of time,
acting as an intervention into the past and a performative performance gesture
through which the artist connects with her family
histories and heals the emotional scars frozen in these images.

In her work Many Moons, Alison playfully
draws lunar phases on her back marked by cupping bruises, symbolizing the
monthly waiting and struggle against with infertility. Through
performing in this way for the photography, she builds
her own memories, opening up the heaviness of the actual emotional experience.


The title of the exhibition, A
Hole to the Water, reflects a favorite game Alison
and her children play at the beach. They try to dig a hole to reach the sea,
but no matter how much they dig, they never quite get there. Moments later,
seawater seeps in, filling the hole. The sea reaches them in its own way, just
as the quiet emotions in Alison’s work reminds us of the water-like ebb and
flow of our complex emotions and how they color our lives while we strive to
bridge our distances and separations. 

(back to images)


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		<title>A Hole to the Water</title>
				
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Sep 2023 06:42:38 +0000</pubDate>

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		<description>A HOLE TO THE WATER&#38;nbsp;
Shortlisted Artist for the Discovery Award at Jimei X Arles International Photo Festival&#38;nbsp;Nominated by  Yingying&#38;nbsp;Gan and  Yichen Zhou&#38;nbsp;
 Jimei Art Center&#38;nbsp;
Xiamen, China&#38;nbsp;
11.29.2024 - 1.12.2025&#38;nbsp;&#38;nbsp;
Curatorial Statement

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		<title>The Dust - Darkroom 1</title>
				
		<link>https://alisonchen.com/The-Dust-Darkroom-1</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2026 17:11:59 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Alison Chen</dc:creator>

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		<description>
The Dust From Our Tears Are Spun into Stories for the Skies, 2024.Constellation Studies. Silver Gelatin prints. 8 x 10 inches
&#38;nbsp;


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	i.&#38;nbsp; &#38;nbsp;The Original Triangle. ii.&#38;nbsp; Eyeline. iii. North Stariv. Teenage Angst
 
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		<title>The Dust - installation</title>
				
		<link>https://alisonchen.com/The-Dust-installation</link>

		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:49:25 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Alison Chen</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://alisonchen.com/The-Dust-installation</guid>

		<description>Installation at Kala Art Institute as part of Where the Tree Grows&#38;nbsp;
Inkjet prints on acetate, nails, thread
Dimensions variable.
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		<title>I Hope You Feel the Sun on Your Wings</title>
				
		<link>https://alisonchen.com/I-Hope-You-Feel-the-Sun-on-Your-Wings</link>

		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Feb 2026 19:07:18 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Alison Chen</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://alisonchen.com/I-Hope-You-Feel-the-Sun-on-Your-Wings</guid>

		<description>I Hope You Feel the Sun on Your Wings, 2024.&#38;nbsp;
Video Installation on wooden structure 71 x 43 x 37 inchesI Hope You Feel the Sun on Your Wings is an homage to my late grandmother. The sculpture is composed of emptied picture frames that once lined the walls of my grandparents’ house, where they held photographs chronicling the lives of their children and grandchildren. Divested of their contents, the frames are reconfigured into a structure evocative of a birdcage.

The bird serves as a symbolic surrogate for my grandmother, who was an avid singer and longtime member of her church choir. My grandparents owned a pair of blue budgerigars for as long as I can remember, and after my grandmother passed, my grandfather tended to these birds with the same devotion he had shown her in her final years. During our visits in the last years of her life – years marked by a battle with Alzheimer's disease and ongoing mental illness – my grandmother communicated mostly through song, bursting into melody whenever she felt moved. In those moments, music seemed to offer her a certain amount of freedom. After she died, the birds’ chirping filled the house in much the same way – carrying on her spirit through song. 

This sculpture acts as both a monument and meditation – an offering for a woman who experienced a great deal of trauma, in the hope that her spirit might exist peacefully, finally unburdened. 


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Installation at Wassaic Project as part of “Tall Shadows in Short Order”, 2024. 


&#60;img width="4240" height="2832" width_o="4240" height_o="2832" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e78f0f5f2a852e1177ba6af86d4b6e3bf46672aed644a46c1ceea53522979bc5/ACC00415.jpg" data-mid="245352725" border="0"  src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e78f0f5f2a852e1177ba6af86d4b6e3bf46672aed644a46c1ceea53522979bc5/ACC00415.jpg" /&#62;Installation view at Jimei x Arles as part of “A Hole to the Water”, 2024.&#38;nbsp;


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Installation view at Jimei x Arles as part of “A Hole to the Water”, 2024. 


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Installation view at Jimei x Arles as part of “A Hole to the Water”, 2024. </description>
		
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		<title>Mama Gone</title>
				
		<link>https://alisonchen.com/Mama-Gone</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2023 21:19:19 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Alison Chen</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://alisonchen.com/Mama-Gone</guid>

		<description>Mama Gone, 2019.


Mama Gone (Excerpt).&#38;nbsp;
Single channel HD video with sound, 03:04 min, 2019.

Mama Gone begins with an image my husband took of me when we were newlyweds. In the image we were on vacation and unburdened by responsibility or children. The image represents a period of time that is distant and lost. 

Mama Gone is an experiment to see how my son would respond to the image. 


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		<title>Exercises in Breath</title>
				
		<link>https://alisonchen.com/Exercises-in-Breath</link>

		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Sep 2023 21:19:20 +0000</pubDate>

		<dc:creator>Alison Chen</dc:creator>

		<guid isPermaLink="true">https://alisonchen.com/Exercises-in-Breath</guid>

		<description>Exercizes in Breath, 2019.&#38;nbsp;


Exercises in Breath (Excerpt)
Two-channel HD video installation, 02:21min, 2019.

Exercises in Breath depicts my body breathing at what would have been 38 weeks of a failed pregnancy, and again at 38 weeks in my first pregnancy. In one instance, I use the air to fill my empty belly. In the other instance, I struggle to find room to fill my belly and lungs with air. &#38;nbsp;


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