Bel Sihan Chen

Bel Sihan Chen 陈思含 (she/her) is an emerging curator, artist, arts and culture organizer, and academic currently residing on the unceded and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam). Her current practices revolve around disseminating and generating discourses and knowledges around stories of possibility and histories of resistance through the lens of placemaking within paradoxes, archival absence in the diaspora, and decolonial futurisms. As a critical creative, she believes art is both a document of dying worlds and a catalyst for new ones. She has had the honor of co-creating spaces that gesture towards more just tomorrows at Artspeak Gallery, Hatch Art Gallery, Yarrow Intergenerational Society for Justice, Asha Collective,  and Third Quadrant Design.