Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen practices in Sydney on Darramuragal and Gadigal lands. Her expanded drawing, sound and video practice engages embodied listening and sounding to examine Southeast Asian Chinese diasporic identity as a generative and emplaced process. Through interactions with people and the material contingencies of places, Chen develops drawing, listening and sounding as interwoven practices that enact connections between ancestral trajectories and lived experiences. Chen has been commissioned for solo exhibitions nationally and internationally by institutions such as 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art at the Australian National Maritime Museum in 2022, Willoughby City Council in 2021 and the Ningbo Museum of Art in China in 2018. In 2026, Chen will present an installation of video works, tactile sound sculptures and drawings in a curated exhibition at Verge Gallery. As a recipient of the University Postgraduate Award, Chen completed her PhD at UNSW Art and Design in 2020. She was a finalist for the 2021/22 NSW Visual Arts Emerging Fellowship, Fisher’s Ghost Art Award 2025 and Hazelhurst Art on Paper Award in 2021/22/23. With work held in private and public collections, Chen has exhibited in Australia, China and England in solo, group, online and finalist prize exhibitions.