PERSONAL STRUCTURES

Chen Mei-Tsen, born in Taipei (Taiwan), is a visual artist based in Paris (France) for over 30 years. A graduate of Taipei National University of the Arts, her artistic practice spans painting, drawing, photography, video, installation, and sculpture, through which she explores the intricacies of her personal quest for a sense of belonging, identity, and connection. Her journey reflects the essence of a nomadic existence—forever moving and seeking. She thus transforms personal life experiences into a continuously writing perceptual map. As the daughter of an architect, Mei-Tsen views the city as a living structure that evolves over time through movement and human experience. Defining herself as an urban nomad, she investigates the relationship between place and identity, tracing how displacement and return shape individual and collective topographies. Her work has been exhibited internationally and won the European Cultural Centre Award (Painting & Mixed Media) at the Personal Structures Art Biennial in Venice in 2024. Her paintings were collected by Taiwan’s China Medical University Art Museum in Taichung, a building designed by Frank Gehry which will be inaugurated in 2028.