Yong Chen (Savannah, GA) holds a degree in Business Management from Xiamen University, Tan Ka Kee College, Xiamen Shi, China. He has taught hybrid courses in advertising, business management, film studies and fine art photography. Chen was introduced to art through traditional calligraphy and has won multiple national Chinese Soft Pen Writing Awards at a young age. He started making photographic work in 2014, and became interested in breaking down photography down into his own independent material to make art. Playing with the principle of photography, he pushes the limits of the medium to new possibilities. In recent years, Chen’s work has been included in multiple international and national juried exhibitions across the US.
