Stanley Chen 陳嘉俊
Overview
陳嘉俊，澳籍華裔，1997年生於澳洲。童年時隨家人從雪梨移居廣東佛山，2020年畢業於美國紐約視覺藝術學院，作品曾於紐約、澳洲、北京、上海與臺灣等地展出。藝術家在繪畫中專注於其流動身份的表現，自傳式的創作將其對自身的思想、行為與感受表現於畫布上，同時對文化差異、傳統禁錮等生命經驗提出了挑戰，探討何為「正常」的核心，承載著在多數情況下作為少數族群身份的歸屬感。藝術家認為繪畫是超越語言、是具象的幻象，語言則為幻象的幻象，因此他不選擇語言來解釋，而是以具象又詭譎的畫面來回應身份的矛盾與衝突。
Stanley Chen, a Chinese-Australian artist, was born in Australia in 1997. During his childhood, his family moved from Sydney to Foshan, Guangdong, China. He graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York City in 2020, and his works have been exhibited in New York, Australia, Beijing, Shanghai, and Taiwan. Chen focuses on the expression of his fluidity identity in the paintings. Through autobiographical creations, he portrays his thoughts, behaviors, and feelings on the canvas. Simultaneously, he challenges life experiences such as cultural differences and traditional constraints, and explores the core concept of “normalcy”, carrying the sense of belonging as a member of a minority group in most situations. Chen believes that painting transcends language, representing physical form of illusions, while language itself is an illusion of illusions. Therefore, instead of relying on language for explanation, he responds to the contradictions and conflicts of identity through physical yet eerie imagery.
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