Cinthia Chen (she/her) is an interdisciplinary artist and budding creative technologist, engaging in image-making, performance, and multimedia installation to explore memory, hybrid identities, and spiritual futurisms. She is interested in art-making and performance as ritual, that engages personal and collective experiences with intentionality, participation, and communion of all those involved, from collaborating artists to audiences. She is committed to a devised practice that engages in deep research and offers multiple access points to enter the work. Cinthia approaches her art with a hybrid/borderland perspective. This is seated deeply within her experiences as a Taiwanese queer diasporic woman. All of these identifiers she considers to be “hybrid/borderland” in their manifestations, which calls for a constant interrogation, negotiation, and resistance to what is considered normative, and the ability to hold multiple truths simultaneously.
Cinthia’s artistic practice materializes in her work as a director, video projection designer, and Theater Mitu company member. She has developed and presented original work through Mabou Mines, Fault Line Theater, More Art, Theater Mitu, Target Margin Theater, and Asian American Arts Alliance. Her video projection design has been recognized at La MaMa’s Design Fest 2020 and USITT Prague Quadrennial 2023. Recent projects include: “Salesman之死” (Connelly Theater), “The Healing Shipment” (La Mama), and “american (tele)visions” (NYTW, asst. designer).