Millie Chen's work is often multidimensional, using video, installation and experiential aspects to address social characteristics of modernity. Recently, she worked in collaboration with the PED collective, creating an audio bicycle tour intended to uncover layers of hidden urban history. Centered at the Koffler Gallery in Toronto, PED.Toronto is further iteration of similar PED projects which have taken place in Buffalo, St. John's, Chongqing and Belfast. A solo exhibition, Prototypes 1970s, is currently on view at BT&C Gallery. For each year of the decade, Chen has created a wallpaper design that references political, social or economic events specific to that year. With this work, as with much of her previous work, Chen explores "invisible histories" and the disarming capacity of ornamental aesthetics.
Bio: Millie Chen's installations, videos, and interventions are intended as sensorial experiences that prod the perceptual and ideological assumptions of the audience. Her artwork has been shown across North and South America, East Asia and Europe at venues and festivals such as the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Centre Culturel Canadien in Paris, Centro Nacional des las Artes in Mexico City, the Power Plant in Toronto, The Contemporary Austin, Shanghai Expo 2010, Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, and Toronto Nuit Blanche. Her work is in several public collections including the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Art Bank of Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Pacific Railway, and Toronto Transit Commission, and she has produced a number of major permanent public art commissions. Her writing has appeared in publications in Canada, the U.S., the U.K. and China. Millie Chen is a Professor in the Department of Art, University at Buffalo. Her work is represented by BT&C Gallery.
Image is from: Tour, 2014 (still is of Murambi)
