Yuling Chen
Education
2019 - 2015 OCAD University, Integrated Media, Toronto, Ontario
2013 - 2010 University of Prince Edward Island, Chemistry, Charlottetown, PEI
2010 - 2008 Sichuan University, Chemistry, Chengdu, Sichuan
Exhibitions/Performances/Screenings
2025 Mima Kirigoe-Psychiatry, Perfect Blue Live/Web Adaptation-Tokyo-Japan-Emergency Room, www.yulingchenartist.com, www.yulinchen.ca, Para Site, Walt Disney Studios, Sony Pictures, & Media Asia Entertainment Group, instagram @yulingc300, Hong Kong, Toronto, Ontario, Markham, Ontario
2025 Walk Alongside the Water, Samsung Smart Phone Screening, Harbourfront Toronto, 7 Harvest Moon Dr., Toronto, Ontario, Markham, Ontario
2024 Project 2025_documents/Fire in Los Angeles.avi/Masks, WordPress, Web 2.0, 7 Harvest Moon Dr., Pacific Mall, University of Toronto & OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario, Markham, Ontario
2024 Cell-Digital/Day Punch Cards, CAMH the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Toronto, Ontario
2023 Firetrucks Never/Sleep/Hospitals, LOFT Community Services Transitional Housing, Toronto, Ontario
2023 Passport Pages/Talking Points/Digital Information, CMHA Housing Program, Toronto, Ontario
2023 Mattresses, TV Monitor & Toilet Papers, Vanier Centre for Women, Milton, Ontario
2023 - 2022 Video;Game, Charles Street Video, Makerspace Project/ReelAsian Unsung Voice Residency, Toronto, Ontario
2023 Incense Sticks/Kau Chim_A Dashcam, Cham Shan Temple, Scarborough, Ontario
2023 - 2021 Telephones, Beds & Documents, 28 Meldazy Dr., 135 Isabella Street Apartment 202, 51, 53, 54 Divisions Toronto Police & Vanier Centre for Women, Scarborough, Ontario, Toronto, Ontario, & Milton, Ontario
2023 - 2020 Mima Kirigoe-Pop Star, Perfect Blue Digital Network, Kadist TV, Paris, France, San Francisco, California
2022 Lipstick on Cameras/Transcripts-Tokyo Story, web2.0, Cargocollective, & Vimeo, Toronto, Ontario
2022 Kick_Digital/Windows_Coffee!Files, 28 Meldazy Dr., Scarborough, Ontario
2021 Yukiho – Journey Under the Midnight Sun, Queen’s Circle, and 700 University Ave., Toronto, Ontario
2021 Visit/Bed, facilitated by Patricia Sun, Rm601, 118 Yorkville Ave., Artscape Daniels Launchpad, Toronto, Ontario
2021 - 2018 Crossing, Adios!Catalonia, & A Bedtime Story, Saturday Roster of Screenings, BUMP TV a DIY Public Access Internet TV station, web 2.0, Toronto, Ontario
2021 - 2019 Televised Speeches/Sleeping Pills_Cellphone~Signals in the Park, Rm202 135 Isabella Street, University of Toronto, & Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario
2020 Bounce/Danger in the Daylight, University of Toronto, Faculty of Music, Toronto, Ontario
2020 German Princess, Part of Live Performance featured in Egyptian Mummies, Ancient Lives, New Discoveries, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Ontario
2020 Cars Driving Through My Plaza/Beating Up, Toronto CF Eaton Center & Yonge-Dundas Square, Toronto, Ontario
2020 Shoes_Audios/Circuits Mixed Up, Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario
2020 Vaccines_Shots in the Dark, The Village Pharmacy, Toronto, Ontario
2019 Hotstuff! Eating Gingers, Eataly & Ginger Restaurant, Toronto, Ontario
2019 Associates_Eating! Hot Menus, Kensington Market, Toronto, Ontario
2019 The Aliens that Flew into My Home and Stayed There, GradEx104, Annex Building, Room 302, Thesis Advisors: Richard Fung & Johanna Householder, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario
2019 Video:Game//A Memory Demands Retracing, Artist Project Contemporary Art Fair, Better Living Center, Exhibition Place, Toronto, Ontario
2018 Shredding Papers & Adios!Catalonia, Slackline Creative Arts Series, Burdock Music Hall, Toronto, Ontario
2018 43.654°N 79.385°W, XPACE cultural center, curated by Katie Kotler, Geneviève Wallen & Philip Leonard Ocampo, Toronto, Ontario
2018 Re-Orientation, Wandering Grounds: Finding Paths, curated by Leaf Jerlefia, Ada Sleight Student Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2017 The Fundoshi Project, This Art Works! We Need a Whole Lot of Underwear, CBC Arts, OCAD University & Madeleine Co., Toronto, Ontario
2017 Birth-ing, Studio Practice Third Year Integrated Media Exhibition, organized by Tannis Nielsen, the Great Hall, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario
2017 Adios!Catalonia, Gender & Lens Feminist Photography Network Exhibition, curated by Jennifer Long and Clare Samuel, Ada Sleight Student Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2012 Much Ado About Nothing (Performance), Youth Can Do Production, Charlottetown, PEI
2012 - 2011 The Philosopher - A Play, Written by R Malcolm Murray, Charlottetown, PEI
Events/Media
2023 Concert Performance/Digital Media, Mazzoleni Concert Hall Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, Ontario
2022 The Places We Once Were Are, Tea Base & Artworx TO, Cecil Community Center, Toronto, Ontario
2020 University of Toronto Hart House Debate/Circle, Discord, Web 2.0, Toronto, Ontario
2018 43.654°N 79.385°W Exhibition Essay, Written by Shellie Zhang, XPACE Cultural Center, curated by Katie Kotler, Geneviève Wallen & Philip Leonard Ocampo, Toronto, Ontario
2017 Conference, Creative Time Summit:of Homelands and Revolution, Koerner Hall, Toronto, Ontario
2017 This Art Works! Launch party, Part of the Community Arts Space: Art is Change, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Ontario
2017 “A Day in the Life” with Video Performance and Animation Artist Yuling Chen, written by Joel Levy, Toronto Guardian, Toronto, Ontario
2017 Daniel Garber Talks to OCADU artist-in-residence Sir Isaac Julien with Yuling Chen, the Movies for culturalmining.com and CIUT 89.5 FM, University of Toronto Hart House, Toronto, Ontario
2016 Gibraltar Point BIPOC Artists One Day Workshop, OCAD University, Min Sook Lee & Lilian Allan, Toronto, Ontario
Curatorial/Projects
2025 Restaurants-Currencies, performance, writing, digital media, 7 Harvest Moon Dr., TIFF Bell Lightbox, Toronto Pearson Airport, Harbourfront, & Billy Bishop Airport, Markham, Ontario, & Toronto, Ontario
2024 Obama’s Certificates, TIFF Writers’ Studio the Sloan Science & Technology Writer Fellowship, CHANEL Women Creators’ Network, Toronto, Ontario
2024 Digital Information/Texts & Calls, writing, digital media, performance, OCAD University, University of Toronto, Knox Presbyterian Church (Toronto, Ontario) & T&T Supermarket, Toronto, Ontario, & Markham, Ontario
2023 Web Information, NYT, & Digital Records, digital media, writing, web media, performance, Election Campaigns for Ontario New Democratic Party (MPP Marit Stiles), Toronto Public Library Scarborough Civic Center Branch, Toronto Public Library Bendale Branch, Thomson Memorial Park, Scarborough, Ontario
2023 - 2022 Tapes, Auto-Photographs & Plaster Textiles Washing in the Thomson Memorial Park, curatorial project, writing, digital media, performance, Thomson Memorial Park, Scarborough, Ontario
2022 Poison, An Adaptation of Emma Bovary, Provincial Manners, TIFF Writers’ Studio the Renee Perlmutter Memorial Fellowship for Literary Adaptation, CHANEL Women Creators’ Network, Toronto, Ontario
2021 Tapes, Hands, and Plaster Bandage Bowls, sculpture, curatorial project, digital media, writing, performance, Akin Studio Program at Auto BLDG, 135 Isabella Street, Toronto, Ontario
2020 Modern News, digital media, writing, & images, WordPress, Medium & Web 2.0, Toronto, Ontario
2019 Love Notes at Factory Theatre in Primavera, yiyuzizhi 以鱼自知 edited by and collaborated with Qirou Yang, digital media, writing, sound art, WeChat 2.0, Toronto, Ontario
Awards/Fellowships/Residencies/Workshops
2024 TIFF Writers’ Studio the Sloan Science & Technology Writer Fellowship, CHANEL Women Creators’ Network, Toronto, Ontario
2023 Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Online Residency, web 2.0, Saugatuck, MI
2023-2022 Reel Asian Unsung Voice Residency, Charles Street Video, Toronto, Ontario
2022 CBC Actors Conservatory, Toronto, Ontario
2022 UAL Action Research Zine as Soundmaking, UAL(University Arts London) Webinars, web2.0, London, United Kingdom, Scarborough, Ontario
2022 TIFF Writers’ Studio the Renee Perlmutter Memorial Fellowship for Literary Adaptation, CHANEL Women Creators’ Network, Toronto, Ontario
2022 The Curatorial Incubator, v.18: Learning from the Local, Vtape & Niagra Arts Centre (NAC), Toronto, Ontario
2021 Akin Studio Program at Auto BLDG, 158 Sterling Road and MOCA Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
2021 Artscape Daniels Launchpad, Digital Media Lab, Toronto, Ontario
2020 Lighting Fundamentals, LIFT Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
2020 the Jack Rabinovitch Reading Room Writers’ Suite Creative Writing Workshops, Toronto Reference Library & Online, Toronto, Ontario
2019 the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program Studio Program, New York, New York
2019 - 2018 the Artist Project Career Launcher Prize, RBC Centre for Emerging Artists and Designers & OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario
2017 the Global Experience Project, Artist in Residence: Sir Isaac Julien, Instructors: Derek Liddington & Paulette Phillips, OCAD University, Buffalo City, US, London, UK, & Toronto, Ontario
2012 - 2011 Advanced Interdisciplinary Research in Singing (AIRS) UPEI, headed by Dr. Annabel Cohen, Charlottetown, PEI
2012 The Philosopher - A Play, written by R Malcolm Murray, A Community Theatre Award, Charlottetown, PEI
Writing/Publication
2022 Electric Nights and Phone Texts, Edited by Joanne (Jo) McVey, UAL Instructors, UAL(University Arts London) Action Research Zine, Internet Web 2.0, & London, United Kingdom
2022 A Poetic Revelation; Queering the Margins of the Society, the Curatorial Incubator, v.18: Learning from the Local, Vtape, Toronto, Ontario
2020 Berlinale Pumpin’ Blood!/Afghanistan Revolution in Cinema, Essays, Edited by Marisa Sittheeamorn and the Editorial board, Farsi Cinema Center, Toronto, Ontario
2018 Shredding Papers, Prose, Creative Writing, Edited by Catherine Black & Evans J Hoskins, Slackline Creative Arts Series, Toronto,
2018 Hunger, Nonfiction Personal Essay, InLand/Nest issue, Edited by Catherine Black, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario
2018 Havoc in Heaven by Jessie Sheng Exhibition Essay, Volume 10, Edited by Philip Leonard Ocampo and Geneviève Wallen, Xpace Cultural Center, Toronto, Ontario
2018 Re-Orientation, Short Essay, Edited by Leaf Jerlefia Watson, Wandering Grounds: Finding Paths, Toronto, Ontario
2012 The Psychological Impacts of Singing on the Immigrants in the Charlottetown, PEI, AIRS UPEI, Director: Dr. Annabel Cohen, Charlottetown, PEI