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Angela Chen (she/her) is a Taiwanese-American artist, writer, and educator. Raised in the San Gabriel Valley, CA, she received her BA in Television, Film, and Media Studies from CSU, Los Angeles, and her MFA in Photography from the Yale School of Art, where she was an Alice Kimball Traveling Fellow and an Art and Social Justice Grantee.

Currently based in Houston, TX, on the ancestral land of the Karankawa, Coahuiltecan, Atakapa-Ishak, and Sana peoples.


︎ angela@angelachen.info
︎ @dan.yeongki


OUR EMOTIONS: FUTURELINK READING/WRITING WORKBOOK


Taking the form of a photocopied school workbook about character analysis, “Our Emotions: Futurelink Reading/Writing Workbook” includes diaristic text I wrote during the mortgage crisis, archival photographs of my parents’ tutoring center in 2000, when a structural beam broke and the roof collapsed, and photographs I took in 2017, when we were packing up and closing the center, unable to continue operating due to increasing rent.

19 images, 37 pages
8.5”x11” Xerox copies
staple-bound book

2019/02




if i could      incalculably      write the news     would i      reach for the quick      immediate yes      i could      click and drag      or i could      lay out the type      of word that sings      place the kind      of image that desires      an unmanipulated page      unmonetized and free **