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Book Chapters

Chen S, 2022, 'A Home for Photography Learning: the Friday Salon, 1977-1980', in Chen S (ed.), A Home for Photography Learning: the Friday Salon, 1977-1980, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, Shanghai

Chen S, 2021, 'Lindy Lee', in Stephen A (ed.), Light and Darkness Late Modernism and the JW Power Collection, Power Publications

Chen S, 2018, 'Ren Hang: Bodies Without Redemption', in Gilded Age: Made In China Year Book 2017, ANU Press, Canberra, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/MIC.04.2018.37

Chen S, 2017, 'Chinese Photography', in Routledge Encyclopedia of Modernism, Routledge, UK, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781135000356-REMO24-1

Chen S, 2016, 'Authentically Socialist: a window on a Communist utopia’', in PLA Picture Pub: Long Live the Glorious ‘May Seventh Directive’, Errata Editions, New York

Chen S, 2015, 'Looking Backward: Chinese Art in 2014', in Shared Destiny: China Story Year Book 2014, http://dx.doi.org/10.22459/CSY.11.2015

Edited Books

Chen S, (ed.), 2022, A Home for Photography Learning: the Friday Salon, 1977-1980, Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House, Shanghai

Journal articles

Chen S, 2020, 'Photography Institutions Burgeoning in China', Trans-Asia Photography Review, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7977573.0010.215

Chen S, 2019, 'A Home for Photography Learning: the Friday Salon, 1977-1980', Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art

Chen S; Zhou D; Shi Z, 2019, 'Photographic Praxis in China, 1930s-1980s: A conversation with Chen Shuxia, Shi Zhimin, and Zhou Dengyan about Shi Shaohua and the Friday Salon', Trans-Asia Photography Review, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7977573.0009.206

Chen S, 2017, 'Departing from Socialist Realism: the April Photo Society, 1979-1981', Trans-Asia Photography Review, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7977573.0008.103

Chen S, 2015, 'Manipulation as Art: Photographs by Xu Zhuo, 1979–1981', Trans-Asia Photography Review, http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.7977573.0006.103

Chen S, 2010, 'Edge of elsewhere', Artforum International

Chen S, 2010, 'The 17th Biennale of Sydney', Artforum International

Chen S, 2010, 'Wang Jianwei: the great politics of human interaction', Realtime

Chen S, 2008, 'Julian Schnabel', Artforum International

Chen S, 2008, 'Roland Fischer', Artforum International

Conference Presentations

Chen S, 2021, 'Picturing a Psychic World of 1980s Taiwan', presented at Remembering Taiwan’s Martial Law Conference

Chen S, 2020, 'Within and Without: Di Yuancang and Introduction of Western Photography to Socialist China, 1949-1979', presented at College Art Association, Chicago

Chen S, 2019, 'The Aura of Reproduction: When Photography Met Photocopier in 1980s China', presented at College Art Association, New York

Chen S, 2018, 'The Birth of a Liupai: the Fission Group, 1986-1988', presented at AAANZ, Melbourne

Chen S, 2017, 'Learning from Home: the Friday Salon, 1977-1980', presented at Centre for Chinese Visual Art 10th Annual Conference, Birmingham City University, UK

Chen S, 2014, 'Photographic Encounters: Photographs of Lois Conner and Her Journeys to the Reforming China', presented at AAANZ, Launceston

Chen S, 2014, 'The Human Self and Breaking from “the Mass”: April Photo Society 1979-1981', presented at American Comparative Literature Association Annual Conference, New York

Curatorial Outputs

Chen S, 2022, Sentient Paper, exhibited at: China Gallery, Chau Chak Wing Museum, the University of Sydney, 11 June 2022 -

Chen S; Krischer O, 2021, Wayfaring: Photography in 1970s-80s Taiwan, exhibited at: Canberra, 30 July 2021 - 28 November 2021, http://ciw.anu.edu.au/events/wayfaring-photography-1970s-80s-taiwan

Chen S, 2020, Auspicious: Motifs in Chinese Art, exhibited at: Chau Chak Wing Museum, the University of Sydney, - , https://www.sydney.edu.au/news-opinion/news/2020/11/23/inaugural-china-gallery-show-examines-culture-of-auspiciousness.html

Chen S, 2018, A Home for Photography Learning: the Friday Salon, exhibited at: Taikang Space, Beijing, - , http://www.taikangspace.com/shows/index/227.html

Chen S, 2012, Make Yourself at Home: Emerging Chinese-Australian Artists, exhibited at: ChinaLink Gallery, Sydney, -

Chen S, 2012, Shen Jiawei: Brothers and Sisters, exhibited at: Seymour Centre, the University of Sydney, -

Creative Written Works

Chen S, 2021, Auspicious: Motifs in Chinese Art, TAASA Review, TAASA Review

Creative Works (non-textual)

Chen S; Suwannakudt P, 2021, (un)spoken, The First Trans-Southeast Asia Triennial, Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, 08 March 2021 - 10 May 2021, medium: performance, video installation, at: http://www.gzarts.edu.cn/info/1085/29886.htm

Chen S, 2012, Dreamscape, Make Yourself at Home: Emerging Chinese-Australian Artists, ChinaLink Gallery, Sydney, - , medium: mixed media installation, recorded cassettes

Chen S, 2012, Egg Friends, Made in China, Australia, Salamanca Arts Centre (Hobart), Burnie Regional Gallery (TAS) 1 February – 1 March 2013 McClelland Gallery and Sculpture Park (VIC) 17 March – 9 June 2013 Lake Macquarie City Art Gallery (NSW) 21 June – 28 July 2013 Adelaide Festival Centre (SA) 6 August – 22 October 2013 Ararat Regional Art Gallery (VIC) 27 March – 18 May 2014 Kickarts Contemporary Arts, Cairns (QLD) 2 June – 5 July 2014 Artspace Mackay (QLD) 5 September – 18 October 2014 Grafton Regional Gallery (NSW) 10 December 2014 – 1 February 2015 Queen Victoria Museum and Art Gallery (TAS) 21 February – 3 May 2015, - , at: https://www.salarts.org.au/event/made-in-china-australia/

Chen S, 2012, Untitled, Comings and Goings: Chinese-Australian Artists, ChinaLink Gallery, Sydney, - , medium: mixed media installation and performance


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