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Movana Chen is a Hong Kong-based artist and curator. She studied fashion design at the London college of Fashion and received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Royal melbourne Institute of Technology in Hong Kong. She also studied exhibition art curatorship at the Hong Kong Art School. Since 2005, she has been a gallery curator at the YY9 Gallery in Hong Kong and is also an independent curator using a variety of venues. Her work is a multi-disciplinary fusion of media transformation, fashion, performance, installation and sculpture, which has been presented in diverse exhibitions and festivals events in Hong Kong, London, Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Philadelphia and the Netherlands. In 2007, she was invited as a guest artist representing Hong Kong to exhibit at the Seoul Fringe Festival. Recently, she has had solo shows at Chinart LaGalerie (paris), Shin Hwa Gallery (Hong Kong) and Pekin Fine Arts (Beijing). She has also group exhibited at the Seoul Arts Centre Korea, the Gyeonggi MoMA Korea and MoCA Shanghai Museum, Shanghai. She was selected one of 30 finalists for the 2011 Sovereign Asian Art Prize. Her works was collected by Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Seoul Fringe and private collectors.