• MFA, StudioArts, Concordia University
• BFA, York University, Toronto

Millie Chen studied piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music, Toronto, received her BFA Honours from York University, Toronto, and her MFA in Studio Arts from Concordia University, Montreal.

Chen’s artwork has been shown across North and South America, East Asia and Europe at venues and festivals including Buffalo AKG Art Museum, The Power Plant, Toronto, Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, Centro Nacional des las Artes, Mexico City, The Contemporary Austin, Shanghai Expo, Hong Kong Asian Film Festival, and FILE-Rio: Electronic Language International Festival, Rio de Janeiro. Her work is in several public collections including Buffalo AKG Art Museum, University of Colorado Art Museum and Art Bank of Canada Council for the Arts, and she has produced a number of permanent public art commissions, including for Canadian Pacific Railway and Toronto Transit Commission. Her writing has appeared in publications in the U.K., Canada, the U.S. and China. Chen's most recent awards (media arts grants from Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council, UB Faculty Grant for Global and International Research and UB Humanities Institute Faculty Research Fellowship) are for SRS (Silk Road Songbook). 

Millie Chen creates visual, audio, and performative works that challenge habitual viewing and emphasize sensory knowledge. Materials, tools and methodologies are contingent on the needs of the moment, but at the core of her projects is social inquiry. She explores the potency of the invisible and the erased within visuality, experimenting with materiality, the immaterial, non-visual elements such as sound and scent, and participatory, collaborative modes of working. Within her visual art practice, the act of looking is interrogated. Chen's latest works are: SRS (Silk Road Songbook) https://www.silkroadsongbook.com, made in collaboration with Arzu Ozkal, an audio-video project that weaves songs of resistance into the land, broadcasting women's distinct, unruly voices on an ancient Eurasian migration route; and Turbulence https://www.milliechen.com/turbulence, a series of drawings that focus on Niagara River sites that have historic and symbolic significance, embodied in the turbulence created by disturbances under the water surface.

• ART 207 Drawing Concepts
• ART 307 Thematic Drawing
• ART 462/562 Installation: Urban Space
• ART 473/573 Performative Action