Yuling Chen is a Chinese Canadian new media artist. She is specialized in making works about beauty, labour and racial tensions using media archives exploring histories of new media art. She was born in 1990 on the southern small island of China, Hainan Island, in the city of Danzhou. When she was young she led a nomadic life moving from cities to cities, homes to homes and places to places. Thus, she had discovered her love in literature, obsession with identity, and eyes for design.

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  • Unity

    Unity

    The exhibitions bee, psychedelic and other exhibitions at Rom are about unity of species. It dives into the hard and difficult subject of haunting from different point of view. The display of the bees and psychedelics and other objects reveal a deeply unsettling world view that people are not good on their own. Etc.  Read more

  • Bullies

    Bullies

    I went to a boarding school when I was grade 1 to grade 3. I had a sentimental education about girls in the schools. They experimented with lesbianism through bullying and fightings. I remembered I took my mom’s jewelry to schools and gave them to the girls who bullied me. My mom came to schools… Read more

  • Carrie – fiction

    Carrie – fiction

    Carrie reads about Carrie. It gave her an idea. She walked along the beach looking for shells. She found several in this small beach town. She cleaned them at home. And she brought them to school. The school bullies were scared of her. She had flaming red hair. “Hey what you got there?” She was… Read more

  • Times Square

    Times Square

    Times Square makes me depressed. There are so many screens. It drives people crazy. Etc.  Read more

  • Dating

    Dating

    I met Doris djoleka in OCAD. We became fast friends bonding over Japanese manga and Korean culture she loved. However at the third year or fourth year of study she met a Korean guy on holiday visa. I didn’t like him finding him weird and racist. But I agreed to go to a concert with… Read more

  • Taylor Swift’s Money

    Taylor Swift’s Money

    Is Taylor swift’s sudden rise to super stardom suspicious? Where did she get 1 billion dollars when all her peers were eating yams at home and being terrifyingly poor? How is that no one gonna check on her conducts and workplaces harassment usually reserved for billionaires? Who is making her rich? Are those white women… Read more

  • Propaganda

    Propaganda

    Since I took a creative writing class at Uoft continuing education in 2020, malicious strangers have shown their true faces. They doubted me and my choice indicating I was just trying to be pretty and manipulating men. What’s so pretty about creative writing? I’m shocked. I couldn’t even remember why I quitted the class the… Read more

  • Ceramic ii

    Ceramic ii

    The exhibitions at Gardiner museum were all about people who had low wage jobs. It depicted a visual world enlightened by these workers and their mental health struggles. The emphasis on tactile sensation has created a deeply reflective group of works about identities and struggles. Etc.  Read more

  • Secrets

    Secrets

    My only secret in the world is that I had thoughts of getting people punished for their crimes when I was screaming in the middle of the nights in 2020 sleeping on a desk. There. I said it. It’s really nothing. But people thought it was something since 2025 because they didn’t know what it… Read more

  • Xiaohongshu Princesses

    Xiaohongshu Princesses

    I just said a permanent goodbye by deleting xiaohongshu to xiaohongshu. The app was so toxic. It had the most based nativists and racist people on there posting stuff that’s super based and debased. The app was a perfect vehicle to make people commit suicide. It didn’t change its algorithm at all even after I… Read more