Ying Chen is a visual artist and photographic storyteller whose work explores the fluid terrain between memory and imagination.
Working primarily with collage-based photography, she constructs dreamlike still-life scenes using flowers, glass vessels, and fragments of natural textures. Her images merge the physical and the ephemeral, transforming intimate objects into landscapes shaped by recurring dreams and emotional residue.
Since 2018, Chen has focused on slicing, layering, and reassembling photographs to examine how memory disintegrates, reforms, and quietly reshapes perception. Her practice reveals the tension between clarity and dissolution, inviting viewers into suspended spaces where the familiar becomes subtly surreal.
Born in China and currently based in the United States, Chen’s work has been recognized for its poetic blend of conceptual photography and collage. She continues to expand her visual language through ongoing explorations of dreamscapes, fragmented still life, and the emotional architectures of memory.
