Awards
2022 - Beyond the Curve International Film Festival “Best VR + 360 Film” for in times like these…, France
2020 - National Arts Council Young Artist Award, Singapore
2020 - Prague International Indie Film Festival Q3 “Best Animation Short” for Women in Rage, Czech Republic
2019 - Winner of ArtOutreach IMPART Visual Artist Award, Singapore
2019 - National Youth Film Awards “Best Art Direction” for Automatonomy, Singapore
2018 - President’s Young Talents People’s Choice Award for Scars that write us , Singapore
2012 - Japan Media Arts Festival Jury Selection Award for eco-awareness flash game Jimmyfish, Japan
Solo Exhibitions & Biennales
2024 - Carbon Tierra Biennale, Ptolemaida, Greece
2022 - Gently Savage, Art Porters, Singapore
2021 - Thailand Biennale, Korat 2021, Thailand
2020 - Biennale de L’Image en Mouvement BIM 2020, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2020 - False Truths, S.E.A. Focus, Singapore Art Week 2020, Singapore
2019 - Stories of a woman and her dowry, Grey Projects, Singapore
2019 - Variations and Variables, National University of Singapore Arts Festival, Singapore
2018 - The scars that write us, Presidents Young Talents 2018, Singapore Art Museum 8Q, Singapore
2018 - Flower Flights, Art Porters, Singapore
2016 - 追花 Chasing Flowers, NUSS, Singapore
Curation
2022 - Collecting Bodies, The Culture Story, Singapore
Group Exhibitions & Film Festivals
2025 - The Feast, 74tharts, Singapore
2025 - Bank of Singapore Commission, SEA Focus, Singapore
2024 - Body Translations; Material Transformations | Movement Study by Yanyun Chen and Sonia Kwek, National Gallery, Singapore
2024 - The Second Sex, The Culture Story, Singapore
2024 - An Ode to Absence, NTU ADM Gallery, Singapore
2024 - Chances of Contact: Contemporary Prints from the Philippines and Singapore, The M, Philippines
2024 - In times like these… (cinematic), Cannes International Film Week, France
2024 - Departures: Yanyun Chen, Hong Zhu An, Prabhavathi Meppayil, STPI, Singapore
2024 - Translations: Afro-Asian Poetics, The Institutum, Singapore
2024 - Chronic Compulsions, The Private Museum, Singapore
2024 - In times like these… (cinematic), Martinique Film Festival, Martinique
2023 - Invisible Sound, Art Agenda, Singapore
2023 - Flower Flights, Dublin Art Book Fair, Dublin, Ireland
2023 - In times like these…, Boston Cyberarts Waveforms 2023, Museum of Science, Boston, USA
2023 - Utopia Reimagined, Foundation for the Arts and Social Enterprises, Singapore
2023 - The truth lies in fact, ArtSG FILM, Singapore
2022 - In times like these…, Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore
2022 - In times like these…, FIVARS Festival of International Virtual and Augmented Reality Stories, Canada
2022 - Desirable Body, Hanover Project, University of Central Lancashire, UK
2022 - While She Quivers, Objectifs, Singapore.
2022 - In times like these…, Beyond the Curve International Film Festival, Paris, France
2022 - In times like these…, Berlin Lift-Off Film Festival Online Selection, Berlin, Germany
2021 - Hindsight is 20/20, 2021 International Short Film Festival Canton, Guangzhou, China
2021 - Hindsight is 20/20, Semi-Finalist at AXD Film Festival, Alexandroupolis, Greece
2021 - Grayscale!, Art Porters Gallery, Singapore
2021 - Art Fair Philippines, Philippines
2021 - Mirazur x The Mandala Club, Singapore
2021 - Women in Rage, Moscow Indie Film Festival 2021, Russia
2021 - The Body as a Dream, Art Agenda S.E.A (AASEA), Singapore Art Week 2021, Singapore
2021 - Open to Interpretation, Asian Art Institutum, Singapore Art Week 2021, Singapore
2020 - Biome, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
2020 - The thought visits you, Asia Now: Paris Asia Art Fair 2020 Online on Ocula, France
2020 - Streets of Hope, National Arts Council, Singapore
2020 - She/Her, Appetite by Restaurant Nouri, Singapore
2020 - Women in Rage, Los Angeles Animation Festival 2020, USA
2020 - Women in Rage, Montreal International Animation Film Festival 2020 Animaze, Canada
2020 - Women in Rage, Prague International Indie Film Festival, Czech Republic
2020 - Women in Rage, Leiden Shorts (Leiden International Short Film Experience), Netherlands
2020 - Clouds: The 6th International Exhibition on New Media Art 2020, CICA Museum, South Korea
2020 - Nefiltravanae Kino Short Movie Club Film Festival “Unfiltered Cinema”, Minsk, Belarus
2019 - FICTION NON FICTION - Reassembling 24 frames of reality through non-narrative film works, Cultural Affairs Bureau, Macau
2019 - 2219: Futures Imagined, Art Science Museum, Singapore
2019 - Remedy for Rage, Objectifs, Singapore
2019 - Singapore Utopia, ChanHori Contemporary, Singapore
2019 - Raw Forms, Coda Culture, Singapore
2018 - Still, Singapore Life, Art Seasons Gallery, Singapore
2018 - Auguries of Modern Innocence, The Arts House, Singapore
2016 - Untapped Emerging, Shophouse 5, Visual Arts Development Association, Singapore
2016 - Spirit of Place, (part of Liao Jiekai’s The Drawing Room), Jendela Visual Arts Space, Singapore
2016 - What! Another Exhibition? (collaboration with Singapore Horn Trio’s Johannes Brahm Horn Trio op. 40), Esplanade Recital Studio, Singapore
2015 - Studying Life, Artistry, Singapore
2015 - Noise Singapore 2015 Festival Exhibition, Singapore
2015 - Fresh Takes, ChanHampe Gallery, Singapore
2015 - The Mill Destruction & Rebirth, The Mill, Singapore
2014 - Floral Magic x On Pedder, Singapore
2014 - Noise Singapore 2014 Festival Exhibition, Singapore
Residencies
2024 - DBLSPCE Residency, Singapore
2024 - Vermont Studio Center, USA
2023 - 10th Cycle NTU CCA Residencies Programme, Singapore
2022 - Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Ireland
2022 - HANGAR Art Residency, Lisboa, Portugal
2021 - Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
2012 - Tembusu College, National University of Singapore
Education
European Graduate School, Saas Fee, Switzerland
PhD with Summa cum Laude 2014-2018
Skinning Nudity: a reading of nudities in arts and law in the Singapore context.
Thesis Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hubertus von Amelunxen (European Graduate School)
Co-supervisor: Dr. Jeremy Fernando (Tembusu College, National University of Singapore)
Defence committee: Prof. Dr. Hubertus von Amelunxen, Prof. Dr. Siegfried Zielinksi, Dr. Jeremy Fernando.
Master of Arts in Communications (Distinction) 2012-2014
Tracing Etymology: Origins and Time; Monsters and Demons
Thesis Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schirmacher (European Graduate School) and
Dr. Jeremy Fernando (Tembusu College, National University of Singapore)
The Florence Academy of Art, Mōlndal, Sweden
Intensive Drawing Course 2013
Awarded the Talent Assistance and Training Allowance Grant from National Art Council Singapore.
Puppets in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic
Marionette Carving and Puppets for animated film workshops June-August 2009
Awarded the National Youth Council Grant 2009
School of Art, Design, and Media, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Bachelor of Fine Arts, Digital Animation (1st class honours) 2005-2009
Awarded the Lee Kuan Yew Gold Medal Award 2009
Awarded the Nanyang Scholarship 2005-2009
The Animation Workshop, Viborg, Denmark
3d Character Animation Workshop January-June 2008
The Drawing Academy
Awarded the MDA Capabilities Development Grant 2008
National Junior College, Singapore
Awarded the MOE Art Elective Programme Scholarship 2003-2004
Awarded the Sapphire Scholars Programme 2003-2004
Teaching
School of Museum of Fine Arts, Tufts University Professor of the Practice (Full-time)
Jan 2023- Jan 2025 Drawing and Painting.
Yale-NUS College, Singapore Lecturer (Full-time)
Jul 2018 – Jun 2023 Arts & Humanities, Division of Humanities.
Yale-NUS College, Singapore Arts Practice Track Coordinator (Full-time)
Jul 2020 – Jun 2022 Arts & Humanities, Division of Humanities.
Yale-NUS College, Singapore Lecturer (Part-time)
Aug 2015 – Jun 2018 Arts & Humanities, Division of Humanities.
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Lecturer (Part-time)
Aug 2014 – Jun 2018, School of Art, Design, and Media
Aug 2014 – Dec 2014 Semester 1 2014/15, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Nanyang Academy of Fine Art, Singapore (External Advisor for Final Year Projects)
Mar 2015 – Apr 2015 ; Feb 2014 – April 2014 Illustration Design Major
European Graduate School, Saas Fee, Switzerland. (Teaching Assistant)
Sep 2014 – Aug 2015 with Werner Hamacher for Being-With-Without-Others
Sep 2012 – Aug 2013 with Hubertus von Amelunxen for Art & Identity with Photography
Sep 2011 – Aug 2012 with Thomas Zummer for Archaeology of Apprehension; Foucault: Archaeology of Knowledge
Grants & Fellowships
2024 - National Arts Council Presentation and Participation Grant, Singapore
2023 - Art Science & Engineering Diversity Grant, Tufts University, USA
2023 - Daynard Travel Grant, Tufts University School of Museum of Fine Art, USA
2022 - National Arts Council Young Artist Award, Singapore
2021 - Andreas Teoh Contemporary Asian Art Programme Fellowship, Yale-NUS College, Singapore. 2021-2023.
2021 - Humanities and Social Sciences Seed Grant, Yale-NUS College. 2021-2023.
2020 - Georgette Chen Fellowship Grant, Yale-NUS College, Singapore. 2020-2023
2020 - National Arts Council Digital Presentation Grant, Singapore
2019 - Teaching Enhancement Grant, National University of Singapore. Summer 2019.
2019 - National Arts Council Market and Audience Development Grant, Singapore
2019 - National Arts Council Capabilities Development Grant, Singapore
2013 - National Arts Council Talent Assistance and Training Allowance, Singapore
2009 - National Youth Council Grant, Singapore
2008 - Media Development Authority Capabilities Development Grant, Singapore
Publication
Animating Gold: The Works of Priyageetha Dia, written by Yanyun Chen, published on Association for Chinese Animation Studies Research Center, Hong Kong, June 2024. (Online Journal)
Singapore at the 60th Venice Biennale: A Hike into the Forest with Robert Zhao Renhui, written by Yanyun Chen, published on Plural Art Magazine, Singapore, 2024. (Article)
Collecting Bodies: A Short Story about art and nudities in Asia, written by Yanyun Chen, published by Swell and The Culture Story, Singapore, 2023. ISBN 978-981-18-5970-0. (Book)
Into the Clouds: New Media Art 2021, editor Leejin Kim, published by CICA Press, Gimpo, Korea, 2020. ISBN 979-11-88671-15-1 03600 (paperback), ISBN 979-11-88671-16-8 05600 (Catalogue)
Verse & Voice, edition 54-55 July to October 2020, editor-in-chief Chris Song, published by The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press, Hong Kong, 2020. ISSN 2308-2216. (Article)
Flower Flights, with writings by Jeremy Fernando, Junni Chen and Lim Lee Ching, published by Swell Sg, Singapore, 2018. ISBN 978-981-14-0033-9. (Book)
Cenobio, edition IV, editor-in-chief Pietro Montorfani, published by Edizioni Canobio, Lugano, 2017. ISSN 0008-896X. (Feature)
50 Drawing Exercises, edited by Martin Constable and Yanyun Chen, published by Singapore Teachers’ Academy for the aRts (STAR) for Art Teachers in Ministry of Education Schools, Singapore, 2016. ISBN: 978-981-09-8445-8. (Book)
Chasing Flowers : workings, written by Yanyun Chen and Junni Chen, published by Knuckles&Notch & Delere Press LLP, Singapore, 2016. Risograph print zine. ISBN: 978-981-09-9769-4 (Book)
Tracing Etymology: Origin and Time; Monsters and Demons, written by Yanyun Chen, edited by Jeremy Fernando, with an introduction by Jeremy Fernando and Esther Ng, published by Atropos Press, New York, 2015. ISBN: 978-1940813943, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Book Depository. (Book)
It’s Fiction A 2014 Drawing Catalogue, with text by Jeremy Fernando, Dustin Hellberg, Anders Kølle, published by Delere Press, Singapore. 2014. ISBN: 978-981-09-2656-4, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Book Depository. (Book)
On Invisibility; or, towards a minor ju-jitsu, written by Jeremy Fernando, illustrated by Yanyun Chen, published by Delere Press, Singapore, 2013. ISBN: 978-981-07-4309-3, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Book Depository. (Book)
Talks, Workshops & Papers
2025 Feb - Artist Talk, LASALLE College of the Arts, University of the Arts Singapore
2024 Oct - Tension Release; Weave Unweave, Trace Life Drawing, Singapore
2024 Oct - Creative Brain Week, University of the Arts, Singapore
2024 Sep - "A Teaching Case Study : Expanded Life Drawing" at Digitally Engaged Learning Conference, NAFA, Singapore
2024 Jun - “Skinning Nudity: Life Modeling Practice in Singapore", Courtauld Institute of Art, UK
2024 Apr - Artist Talk, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy.
2023 Nov - Artist Talk, University of Massachussetts, USA.
2023 Aug - “Animating Gold: the works of Priyageetha Dia” Japan Society of Animation Studies, Yokohama National University, Japan.
2023 Jul - “Arts Career Panel” moderated by Marc Nair, hosted by Sazali Othman, with panelists Ong Shu Chen, Jo Tan, Claire Chong, Bernice Lee, and Yanyun Chen, Schoo of the Arts, Singapore.
2023 Jan - “The Role of Public Institutions and Residencies in the Arts Ecosystem” moderated by Yanyun Chen, with panelists Aaron Cezar, Alessio Antoniolli, Zoe Whitley, and Sook-Kyung Lee. Yale-NUS College, Singapore.
2023 Jan - “Desire in Dead” Panel Discussion moderated by Adele Tan with Zulkhairi Zulkiflee. OH Open House, Singapore.
2022 Dec - “For the time being” Poetry Night #1 convened by Theophilius Kwek with Lawrence Ypil, Appetite, Singapore.
2022 Oct - “Southeast Asian Performing Bodies: A Reading of Four Works from Melati Suryodarmo, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Sara Chong & Yanyun Chen, and Sarnt Utamachote” SMFA at Tufts University, Boston, US.
2022 Oct - “Book Launch | SEA Contemporary Art in Southeast Asia” Paris Asia Now, Paris, France.
2022 Sep - “Artist presentation” 17th Edition of Culture Night Oíche Chultúir, Ireland.
2022 Mar - “Touch of a Gaze with Yanyun Chen” Appetite SG, Nouri, Singapore.
2022 Feb - “South South Next x STPI presenting Yanyun Chen” Online.
2022 Feb - "“While She Quivers Artist Conversation: The Material Arc of Gender Norms” Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore.
2022 Feb - “While She Quivers Artist Conversation: Unpacking Feminine Auto/narratives” Objectifs Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore.
2021 Nov - “Sex and Censorship: Animations in Singapore post-2010” Symposium paper presentation, 45th CINANIMA Festival, AnimaScape Symposium, Espinho, Portugal.
2021 Sep - “Fireside Chat: The Future of Preserving our Past” Invited Speaker for GovInsider Festival of Innovation, Singapore.
2021 May - “Art and Aesthetics in Medicine: Artists’ Panel : A Different Perspective” Introductory Course in Medical Humanities, SingHealth, Duke NUS, in collaboration with Yale-NUS College, Singapore.
2021 Mar - “Embodied Narratives” Alliance Française, Singapore.
2021 Feb - Objectifs Film Club: The Drawing Room & Episodes from Art Studio by Liao Jiekai, Objectifs, Singapore.
2021 Jan - “Grounded and Ready For Take Off: Flight Plans for 2021” SAW Art Symposium, Singapore.
2020 Oct - “Round Table: New Habits, Pattern and Traditions” Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento, Buenos Aires.
2020 Jan - Drawing Symposium 2020 Masterclass “Dry Medium Drawing: a practice-based research” for Singapore Teachers Academy for the Arts, Singapore.
2020 Jan - “Choking on Nostalgia” Art Science Museum, Singapore.
2019 Sep - “Visualising Bodies: Love song for the medical sciences” for SingHealth Duke NUS Education Conference, Health and the Humanities: Music, Art, and Poetry”, Singapore.
2019 Jun - “Animation in Singapore Contemporary Art: Hilmi Johandi and Dave Lim” Society for Animation Studies, Lisbon, Portugal.
2019 May - “Hospitality in blurred spaces—a case-study of Ming Poon’s Undressing Room” Association for Philosophy and Literature Conference, Klagenfurt, Austria.
2019 Apr - “Nudity, Art and Censorship in Singapore” Yale-NUS College, Singapore.
2019 Mar - “The Times of Art in Singapore” Featured Speaker for ‘Beyond the Clock’ Interdisciplinary Symposium on Time; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
2018 May - “Understanding Nudity in Art” Cultural Criticism, National Library, Singapore.
2017 Apr - “The Nude, dressed up to the eyeballs…”, Poetry, philosophy, politics : on art & education workshop, Tembusu College, National University of Singapore.
2016 Jun - “On blinking: Looking closely at Don Hertzfeldt’s Animations”, 28th Annual Conference of the Society of Animation Studies ; Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
Press
2025 - ICON January Issue “艺术家陈彦云 透过作品让女性力量被看见”
2024 - Yahoo!Life “First dibs: 15th Singapore Night Festival 2024 runs 23 Aug to 7 Sep”
2024 - Kompas “Memori Puitik dari Asia-Afrika”
2024 - Artnet Gallery Network “Spotlight: A Group Exhibition in Singapore Highlights the Harmonies Between African and Asian Diaspora Cultures”
2024 - 联合早报: “汇聚百位亚非艺术家 结合餐饮六地点办展”
2024 - The Straits Times “Singapore Art Week: The Insitutum’s Afro-Asian art show transcends geographies”
2023 - The Business Times “Out of Africa, into Asia”
2023 - Art Basel “In Singapore, South-South discourse is having a moment”
2023 - Art Asia Pacific “Translations: Afro - Asian Poetics”
2023 - Waveforms “Yanyun Chen, Alex Scollay, Corentin Derbre, Jevon Chandra — In times like these… “
2023 - Marie Claire Taiwan March 2023 Issue “30’s Special” (article “In our 30s”)
2023 - Frieze “The Best Shows to See in Singapore Right Now”
2022 - FIVARS “Critically-Acclaimed International FIVARS Festival Launches Immersive Showcase in 2 Cities, While Pushing the Limits of Web3D”
2022 - Ocula “Singapore Lowdown: Must-See Exhibitions”
2022 - 联合早报: ”走入社区玩艺术 2023年新加坡艺术周十大看点“
2022 - The Business Times “Who’s Afraid of Nude Art?”
2022 - 联合早报: “女艺术家拒绝“消失” 突破局限 创作不辍”
2022 - Straits Times “Arts Picks: Sing Lit Blk Party, Objectifs exhibition, Rossini opera”
2021 - Alliance Française de Singapour “Embodied Narratives”
2021 - National Gallery Singapore Raw Talks “Ep2: The Female Body”
2021 - Yale-NUS College “New Andreas Teoh Contemporary Asian Art Programme promotes study and appreciation of Asian art”
2021 - Yale-NUS College “Yale-NUS lecturer Dr Yanyun Chen’s and alumnus Chia Yaim Chong’s video collaboration was nominated for the National Youth Film Awards”
2021 - The Artling “The Mirazur Art Collection: Revealing the Artist Line-Up”
2021 - Art and Market “Pass the Mic Episode 2 | Yanyun Chen on Latiff Mohidin”
2021 - Objectifs Film Library “Film Club Recap: The Drawing Room and Episodes from Art Studio”
2021 - Tatler Singapore “Meet Asia’s Most Influential: The Culture List 2021”
2021 - Straits Times “Rare nudes by local artists on show”
2020 - Straits Times “My Perfect Weekend”
2020 - Yale-NUS College “15 December 2020: Yale-NUS lecturer Dr Yanyun Chen wins prestigious Young Artist Award 2020”
2020 - SAGG “Six arts practitioners awarded with Singapore’s top arts accolades”
2020 - Straits Times “Artistic giants”
2020 - Straits Times “2020 Young Artist Award recipients count their blessings in a pandemic year”
2020 - 联合早报: “六杰出艺术家获颁2020年文化奖与青年艺术奖”
2020 - 联合早报: “在实践中 不断探索与质问”
2020 - 联合早报: “用创作回应 艺术的召唤”
2020 - Timeout “Sarkasi Said and Dr. Vincent Leow are the 2020 Cultural Medallion recipients”
2020 - Sinema “Six Outstanding Arts Practitioners Awarded With Singapore’s Top Arts Accolades”
2020 - Asian Movie Pulse “Short Film Review: Women in Rage (2020) by Chen Yanyun, Sara Chong”
2020 - Appetite SG “In conversation with Yanyun Chen”
2020 - Vulture Magazine “Cultural Crossroads”
2020 - Patron of the Arts Award 2020 Live Stream Celebrations
2020 - Yale-NUS College “27 March 2020: J Y Pillay and Georgette Chen Fellowships support Arts and Humanities professors’ research”
2020 - SilverKris March 2020 “The SQ Curators”
2020 - Bak Chor Mee Boy “Museum musings: 2219 - Futures Imagined at Art Science Museum”
2019 - Female Magazine “5 Cool Events This Week: Weird Wonderful Pasar Malam, A Mean Girls Screening Party & More”
2019 - Art & Market “Review of ‘2219: Futures Imagined’ at ArtScience Museum”
2019 - Options “‘2219: Futures Imagined’: A sobering prediction of life on earth 200 years from now”
2019 - Tip Balmond Studio “What does the future look like?”
2019 - Straits Times “A robot dystopia in Singapore”
2019 - Straits Times “Stop-motion animation about humans and robots among winners at National Youth Film Awards”
2019 - Object Lessons Space: “Yanyun Chen on Navigating the Nude, the Pulsating Qualities of Charcoal and Creating Autofictional Installations”
2019 - Bak Chor Mee Boy: “Museum Musings: Stories of a Woman and Her Dowry by Yanyun Chen”
2019 - Straits Times: “Is $2,000 worth paying for a young artist's work?”
2019 - 联合早报: “陈彦云个展： 两代嫁妆 三代女人的故事”
2019 - Art World Forum “Defining An Artist with Yanyun Chen, “Someone Who Designs the Very Framework of “Responsibility”"
2019 - Bak Chor Mee Boy: “NUS Arts Festival 2019: Variations and Variables (Review)”
2019 - NUS Staff Awards: “Impactful work wins visual art award”
2019 - Female Magazine: “Defenders of the Lost Arts”
2019 - Rice Media “Life after Recognition: Does being an artist get easier after winning an award?”
2019 - Plural Art Magazine “The Language of Flowers”
2019 - Larmoire “In conversation : Floral Magic”
2018 - T Singapore “A Wall Of Flowers For An Art Exhibition”
2018 - 联合早报 “艺术星势力”
2018 - Rice Media “What does art look like to the people who stare at it everyday?”
2018 - Straits Times: “Risk elements help visual artist clinch grand prize at President's Young Talents awards”
2018 - Straits Times: “What artworks reside in the homes of Singapore artists?”
2018 - Straits Times: “Arts picks: Charcoal drawings of flowers, Singapore Chinese Orchestra Young People's nostalgia concert”
2018 - Buro247: “How to be an artist in Singapore, according to President Young Talents' artists”
2018 - AList: “Baring skin, scars and personal stories”
2018 - Straits Times: “President’s Young Talents exhibition: Digging Deeper for Inspiration”
2018 - Bak Chor Mee Boy: “Museum Musings: President’s Young Talents 2018 at Singapore Art Museum”
2018 - The Artling: “Of Soil & Scars: The President’s Young Talents Finalists 2018.”
2018 - BlouinArtifino: “7th Edition of President’s Young Talents at Singapore Art Museum”
2018 - Straits Times: “Soil and scars on display as part of the President's Young Talents 2018 exhibition”
2018 - Straits Times: “National Gallery Hit or Miss?”
2017 - Glass: A Journal of Poetry "Review of 'It's Fiction' by Yanyun Chen"
2016 - 联合早报 “南艺三校友 让音乐与绘画摩擦碰撞”
2016 - Art Hop "A post-mortem reflection: Yanyun Chen's Chasing Flowers"
2016 - NUSS Guild House: Chasing Flowers
2016 - Harper's Bazaar Art Prize "Art on Sale"
2015 - Nitram Charcoal: Artist Feature
2015 - Female Magazine "Singapore Artist Yanyun Chen's Still Life Drawings are Hauntingly Beautiful"
2015 - Gallery & Studio Volume Five 2015 "History Redefined"
2015 - Culturepush "Exhib! 追花. Chasing Flowers by Yanyun Chen"
2010 - Culturepush "Spotted! Yanyun Chen"