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Josh Chen 陈乔斯

Qiaosi (Josh) Chen (b. 1999, Fuzhou, China) is a New York-based artist working across video, installation, photography, and performance. Using objects, images, and the body, he constructs a fragmented, non-linear visual language shaped by memory, metaphor, and sensation. His works unfold as quiet inquiries, revealing brief clarity within ambiguity—like signals emerging through static. With a background in engineering and design, Chen moves between science and mysticism, logic and emotion, control and chance. His practice is intuitive and open-ended, grounded in peripheral experiences that resist naming yet slowly take form through material and experience.
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Everything Was True For A Moment

Solo Exhibition at A Space Gallery, New York, 2025

Penglai

11 pieces 16x24 inches
Giclée Print on Fine Art Paper
Photography
2025

Brave New World

Dimensions variable
soil, driftwoods, mirror ball, glossy pearl beads, metallic pigment
Installation
2025

Confluence

3.6x11.8x14.2inches
Installation
2024

Sacred Tree

Dimensions variable
driftwoods, glossy pearl beads, mirror ball, clay,
riverstones, plastic snake, metallic pigment, invisible threads
Installation
2024

Lotus Dancefloor

7 pieces 984x738mm
Photography
2022

This work is a series of photography and I try to reflect myself through this series of images. It is the first work I created in New York. For me, identity is not binary; it is an intuition and a sense of freedom. One night, I dreamt of dancing in a lotus-shaped dance floor. Coming to New York symbolizes growth and transformation. My consciousness and self-awareness are constantly being challenged and reshaped. By recreating images from my life, I re-understand myself.

Panacea

2:22
video
2022

This work is a video which explores societal attitudes and human behaviors when facing future challenges, reflecting on how people construct meaning and cope with uncertainty.

The film fictionalizes a Qigong ritual to create a cure and leaves an open ending with multiple interpretations. Did the ritual succeed, and who is truly healthy? By comparing historical and modern phenomena, I hope to illustrate the complex human reactions to uncertainty and prompt the audience to think about the deeper motivations behind these behaviors.