Chiarina Chen is a New York-based independent curator and writer. From a psychology and art history background, her curatorial practice explores the intersections of nomadic subjectivities, critical posthuman theory, and forensic aesthetics. Her notable curatorial projects include Poetics of Inquiry: How to Stay with Trouble, at The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusets, The Tale of Errantry at Chain Theater, New York, No Footsteps Return, Rainrain, New York, Collecting Anxiety, presented in multiple venues, Is This Intimacy? at the University of Applied Arts Vienna and Krinzinger Projekte, both in Vienna, Magic Back to Town at Cyborg Foundation, and the Posthuman Research Center, New York University, both in New York, and The Wasteland of the Future, at the Shanghai Himalayas Museum and Art and Philosophy Center, Fudan University, Shanghai. Earlier at New York FLAG Art Foundation, she has landed exhibitions of Jeff Koons, Cecily Brown, Charles Ray, and Betty Tompkins. She has given talks and organize academic forums at Columbia University, Utrecht University, New York University, Sapienza University of Rome, New York Institute of Technology, and Fudan University.

Chen is the presenter at the 25th World Congress of Philosophy in Rome and founding member of the New York Posthuman Research Group. She has served as a visiting critic and juror at various institutions around New York City such as ISCP, NARS Foundation, ASMP, School of Art at Pratt, among others. She holds a Master’s in Contemporary Art Management and Criticism from Sotheby’s Institute of Art and a Bachelor’s in Psychology, specializing in cognitive and criminal psychology, from Syracuse University.