Song Chen was born in Luoyang in 1979 and has been living in Shanghai since 2003.

Song Chen is an Eastern eco-artist creating contemporary art with earthen soil as her primary medium. Locality is extremely important to Song Chen’s work, as the artist considers her locality as a spiritual home from where she can focus on the ultimate destination of human evolution. Her prolific performative praxis has created several happenings and installations using soil, ink, and other natural materials through which she seeks to address the human heart as her partner in dialogue. Her soil-based creations utilize a variety of artistic forms, including installation, performance, video, and mixed media.

Song Chen’s soil-based artworks have been exhibited at Art Hong Kong, Art Basel HK, Shanghai Art Fair, ART021 Contemporary Art Fair in Shanghai, and West Bund Art Design in Shanghai. Among them, Walking Landscape Series Ⅰand Walking Landscape Series Ⅱ have been collected by Yuz Foundation, and the Dust to Dust series has been collected by the Princess of Uzbekistan.