Jia Chen

Jia Chen is an established New York based painter, sculptor, poet, song-writer and social historian. She has since the early 1990s played an active role in various significant NYC cultural events for over two and a half decades, acknowledged as not only Founder of Unconstrained Freehand Cursive Script and American Poetic Expressionism, but also a remarkable art and literary critic and song-writer.

Peking University in Beijing, China
The Graduate Faculty of New School for Social Research and Columbia University, New York, USA

Solo & Joint Shows:
Jan. , 2000/ Asian Fusion Gallery, New York City
One-Woman Show on Poetic American Expressionism (Reviewed by NYC critic Robert C. Morgan as "intriguing in integrating calligraphy into Western painting art". An interview on Jia Chen's newly founded painting style of Poetic American Expressionism was published in the Spring Issue of US Digest Magazine, etc..
May-June, 1994 / National Museum of History, Beijing, China
Joint Exhibition on Unconstrained Freehand Cursive Script: A Revolution in Chinese Calligraphic Art
(A theoretical thesis titled Unconstrained Freehand Cursive Script: A Revolution in Chinese Calligraphic Art, in both English versions, was published in leading American and Chinese publications like The International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, Volume 8, No. 3, 1995; Interviewed by Chinese MSM including China Daily, CCTV.)
December, 1999 / Asian Fusion Gallery, New York City
Joint Exhibition on Unconstrained Freehand Cursive Script: A Revolution in Chinese Calligraphic Art
(Interviewed by SinoVision, AP, World Journal & reviewed by Arthur J. Vidich, etc..)