Alexis Chen is a senior at Yale-NUS College, majoring in Arts and Humanities and minoring in Urban Studies. She is currently working on her final year thesis, which explores Nanyang artists' paintings of Bali landscapes and women within the broader theories of tropicality and histories of Southeast Asia in the twentieth century.
She was a Curatorial and Research intern at National Gallery Singapore (2021). She worked as a research assistant for Dr Maria Taroutina in Yale-NUS College, examining Orientalist Russian painters (2020-2021).
She is an illustrator, graphic designer and art manager. Her creative practice delves into banalities and psychological struggles of urban living, unravelling pivotal moments of catharsis and illumination. She was the narrator for Andrew Yang & Christa Donner’s performance piece Listening through the Landscape (2021) exhibited in NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. She also designed the 2020 issue of TÒNES – a physical multilingual zine. She was the lead student associate and designer for the Yale-NUS College’s Artist-in-Residence Programme (Singapore; 2019-2020) and the Admissions and Financial Aid Department (Singapore; 2020). She interned as coordinator for Esplanade (Singapore; 2017), Shophouse & Co (Singapore; 2018) and Arts Tropical Gallery (Okinawa; 2019).
Alexis received the Affordable Art Fair Gold Medal & Prize (2018) and the Huone Prize (2018) for the most outstanding overall performance and academic performance in the Diploma of Arts Business Management. She was a Ngee Ann Scholarship recipient (2015-2018) and graduated with a Diploma in Arts Business Management with Merit from Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
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