Artist · Selected work

Elsa Nianru Chen

Selected work 01–10
  1. 01MonstersPainting · 2026
  2. 02Drawings
  3. 03Sculpture
  4. 04Textile
  5. 05Textile2026
  6. 06Drawing2024
  7. 07Photography2025
  8. 08Sculpture
  9. 09Cyanotype2025
  10. 10Paintings2026

Information

Elsa Nianru Chen works across painting, drawing, sculpture, textiles, and photography.

Her practice considers the body through repetition and the time of making. Repeated marks, embroidery, and needle felting give material form to gestures that accumulate and change. Across these processes, she attends to the encounter between a material, the artist, and the viewer.

Education

Visual and Critical Studies
School of Visual Arts, New York
Currently studying

Exhibitions & performance

  • Troubled Body
    Group exhibition · Co-curator with Petra Kruty and exhibiting artist
    10–30 August 2026
    Flatiron Project Space, School of Visual Arts
  • Reclaiming Time, Somewhere
    Performance · 23 April 2026
    Flatiron Project Space, School of Visual Arts

Writing