Aabout
Léa Chen is a Taiwanese artist who is currently based in London. Focusing on the female perspective, her work explores themes of self-identity, memory, and trauma through her personal experience. Primarily utilising photography, Chen proceeds to explore moving images and sound as her creative media.
Often seeking inspiration in nature, Chen’s work explores the intimate bond between humans and the land by shooting outside the traditional studio. By creating an open and free space for her subjects to express themselves, she further challenges social and cultural issues that are often unspoken in society. Chen’s identity as a female Taiwanese artist maintains a strong connection in both her personal and commercial works. Having lived in Taiwan, Italy, and the United Kingdom, she continues to question the definition of home in her practice. Delicately pairing forms, textures, and abstract movements, Chen turns the ordinary into poetic scenes by observing as an “outsider” in this constantly changing world.
Through her intimate inspection, Chen builds a female narrative that differs from the mainstream media, creating a private space for her audience to safely wander and heal within the land of her creativity.
Awards
2026 Photoworks Emerging Talent Awardee — awarded the PhotoWorks Curatorial Mentorship
2026 Royal Photographic Society Under 30s IPE Award Winner
2026 Sicily Photo Masterclass Alumni Scholarship Bursary Winner
2025 PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant: Main Prize Shortlisted
2025 PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant: New Generation Prize Honourable Mention
2025 Keerthana Kunnath Mentorship: Outstanding Series Award Winner
Exhibitions
2026 Kranj Foto Fest — Emerging Talent Digital Slideshow Screening, Slovenia (Upcoming)
2026 Royal Photographic Society International Photography Exhibition 167 — Saatchi Gallery, London (On View)
2026 The Archive is Alive — UAL Showcase, Selected project (online)
2026 Rewild: Navigating Space — Rabbet
2026 PhotoVogue Festival — Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Milan
2025 Confluence — Galerie Joseph Froissart, Paris
2025 Postgraduate Showcase — London College of Communication
2025 Agora — Copeland Gallery
Interview / Press
2026 Photoworks, Emerging Talent 2026, The Stars That Don’t Look Back
2026 Photography+, Emerging Talent Issue
2026 The Guardian, “A bit on the nose! The world’s longest-running photography exhibition – in pictures”
2026 RPS Journal, Artist Feature & Interview, The Stars That Don’t Look Back
2026 Amateur Photographer, Featured Photographer, RPS IPE 167
Publications
2025 Sensored, Issue 04
Selected Clients
Cubitts
Selected Talks
2026 Guest Speaker — London College of Communication
2025 Guest Speaker — London College of Communication
Email:leachen0122@icloud.com
Instagram:@takenbyleachen