Biography

Eve Chen (they/them) is an artist, queer child of Chinese-Vietnamese refugees, born and raised on Tongva land (Los Angeles, CA). Eve’s familial history is one wrought with war from Guangdong, China, Cambodia, and Saigon, Vietnam. Through unfolding this history, they are interested in understanding how children of refugees and war can reconnect to the lands that their bodies were exiled from. Their art and research seeks to explore (1) How refugees fit into the broader Asian American immigrant narrative, (2) What the relationship is between the children of refugees and the country that produced their family’s refugeehood, (3) How children of refugees understand, imagine, and desire the homeland. Eve hopes to disseminate these stories through their art and research and bring light and healing to their community.