Guanyi Chen (b. 2001, Shanghai) is a painter whose work, astonishingly detailed and meticulous, is inspired by the rhythms and patterns of systems found in the natural and man-made worlds. She’s particularly attracted by the imperfections found in those rhythms; what they are, where they formed, and what impact they have on the normal parts.

For Guanyi, painting can be considered as a manifestation of those shared similarities among the input and output procedure, the meditative state, and the situation of her mind when she’s ‘in the zone’. It is a marvelous, timeless, immersive, non-physical realm full of freedom without any trace.

Guanyi graduated from the BA programme at the Slade School of Fine Art.