Tzu Chen Chen was born in 1967 in Taipei, Taiwan. In 1988 she received a diploma in Commercial Design at the Ming Chuan College in Taipei, Taiwan. In this 5 years-program she received fine arts training, studied offset printing, interior design, packaging design, black and white photography. From 1989 to 1992 she studied Communication Design at the Parsons School of Design in New York City, USA and Paris, France, where she studied graphic design and color photography. She received Bachlor of Fine Arts degree in January 1992. Tzu Chen has lived on 4 continents and speaks Mandarin Chinese, English, French and some German. Since 2013 Tzu Chen has lived and worked in Switzerland.
Tzu Chen Chen has mainly been active as a fine art and commercial photographer. Since 2019 she branched out into painting.