2025 MFA Thesis Exhibition

Jinghui Chen is a multidisciplinary artist from China, currently based in NYC. Her work explores time, memory, and perception through painting，sculpture, installation, and mixed media. Drawing from philosophy, literature, and science, she examines cyclical patterns, transformation, and the instability of identity. Fascinated by repetition and change, Chen’s practice reflects how we revisit, adapt, and grow. Inspired by Borges’ infinite libraries, Deleuze’s concept of the fold, and Nietzsche’s idea of eternal recurrence, she explores the tension between permanence and impermanence. Alan Turing’s The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis also influences her approach, revealing how complex patterns emerge from simple structures—an idea that mirrors her creative process. Through structured geometry, organic patterns, and evolving textures, Chen creates meditative spaces that reflect life’s infinite loops. Her work often carries a sense of nostalgia and introspection, embracing themes of absence, transformation, and renewal. Just as a Möbius strip merges opposites into a continuous form, her art dissolves boundaries between past and present, self and other, structure and chaos. By exploring cycles of repetition and change, Chen seeks to understand not only their impact on art but also their deeper significance in how we live, remember, and evolve. Her work invites viewers to engage with the rhythms that shape existence, finding meaning within the ever-unfolding patterns of time.

Jinghui Chen is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York, whose work navigates the intersections of time, memory, and perception. She draws from philosophy, literature, and scientific models of self-organization to explore cyclical narratives and the instability of identity. Her work spans sculpture, installation, and mixed media, often incorporating elements of repetition, erasure, and transformation. Through material experimentation, she investigate the ways in which repetition, circulation, and layering shape perception. The interplay between organic and constructed elements—whether through the cyclical decay of natural materials or the rigid codes of digital sequences—reflects her interest in systems of order that fracture under their own logic. Through her practice, she seeks to question the structures that shape our understanding of reality, embracing uncertainty as a mode of creation.