Portfolio / 2026
Jonathan
Chen
Artist & multidisciplinary creative
Painting, objects, food, and visual storytelling—following memory, masks, transformation, and the strange tenderness of familiar things.
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Painting as a place where memory, masks, tenderness, and unease can exist together.
The archive
Fifteen paintings and mixed-media works. Open any piece to view it without cropping and move through the collection.
The work before
the work.
Sketches, partial paintings, process photographs, material tests, and unfinished ideas—shown as evidence of a practice still becoming.
A new practice with no fixed medium.
Jonathan Chen is a Miami-based emerging artist and multidisciplinary creative working across painting, drawing, objects, food, and visual storytelling. He returned to art in 2026 after leaving a childhood passion behind.
His work moves between personal symbols, emotional landscapes, familiar subjects made strange, and strange subjects made tender. The practice is drawn to duality: life and death, chaos and harmony, creation and destruction.