Stella Chen

Stella Chen is a Chicago-based experimental 3D CGI animator exploring an erotic and anxious interior of queer embodiment. Her low-poly work contrasts the minimalism of its graphics with the messy excess of emotion it depicts. Her films act as an embarrassing confessional of personal experience, where the exploitative labor of animation is inseparable from the image itself. Chen earned her BFA in Film, Video, New Media, and Animation from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.