Education
2010 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Sociology, Bachelor of Arts with honors
Grants & Honors
2017 Documentary Film Project Funding, Puffin Foundation, USA
2011 Progressive Women’s Voices Fellow, Women’s Media Center, New York City, NY
2011 Indiegogo Campaign, Feminist Coming Out Day, raised $13,994
Exhibitions
2018 “The Cyber & Material Character II: Cybopticon.life”, Feedback #2: Marshall McLuhan & the Arts, Transmediale Festival, Eigen+Art Lab, Berlin, Germany
2018 “Minerva”, Drone Dancing, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden
2018 Colleagues Wanted, alpha nova & galerie futura, Berlin, Germany
2018 RÄUME 2, Berlin, Germany
2017 Solo Exhibition, “The Life & Death of Elle Peril”, S0MA Gallery, with support by Senate Department for Culture and Europe Berlin, Germany
2017 “The Cyber & Material Character I: weplay4unow.com”, FK-Galerie, Berlin, Germany 2017 “The Cyber & Material Character I: weplay4unow.com”, The Beholder, Porn Film Festival Berlin, SomoS Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Performances
2018 “Nurture”, Tempting Failure Biennial of Performance Art & Noise, London, UK
2018 “Spilled Milk”, Bodies & Borders, MART, Dublin, Ireland
2018 “The Poetry Oracle”, The Poetry Brothel, K-Fest, Killorglin, Ireland
2018 “The Poetry Oracle”, The Poetry Brothel, Bloomsday Festival, Dublin, Ireland
2018 “While We Were Watching”, Casa Viva, Mexico City, Mexico
2018 “Spilled Milk”, gr_und, Berlin, Germany
2018 “Nostferatu with Live Symphonic Soundscape”, Transmediale & CTM Festival Vorspiel, Theater im Delphi, Berlin, Germany
2017 “The Life & Death of Elle Peril”, Goethe-Institut Getting To Know Europe Program, Building Bridges Art Exchange, Santa Monica, CA
2017 “The Life & Death of Elle Peril”, FACES: GENDER, ART, TECHNOLOGY, 20 Year Anniversary, Schaumbad, Graz, Austria
2017 “The Life & Death of Elle Peril”, Nasty Women UK, Stour Space, London
2017 “The Poetry Oracle”, The Poetry Brothel, Museum of Modern Art, Antwerp, Belgium 2017 “The Witch Within”, Berlin Feminist Film Week, Agora Rollberg, Berlin, Germany 2017 “Pythia”, Galerie Lottum, Berlin, Germany
Residencies
2018 The Rising, performance space, Folkestone, UK
2017 Civic Media Lab, Construction Festival, Dnipro, Ukraine
Social Practice
2018 “Heal Her” (with Zarahlena Lunarem), Casa Viva, Mexico City
2018 “Heal Her”, New Women Space, Brooklyn, New York
2018 “Heal Her”, Human Resources, Los Angeles, California
2017 “The Peace Process” (with Sabia Khan & Ania Shapiro), Civic Media Lab, Dnipro, Ukraine
2017 “Everything Woman Is Alien To Me” (with Aggie Davies & Angel Callander), Premarts, Berlin, Germany
Press
2018 “A Thousand Women”, documentary (director: Rita Toledo), Daza Filmes
2018 Nach Revenge Porn Lena Chen holt sich ihren Körper zurück, Benjamin Weber, Deutschlandfunk Nova
2017 After Years of Online Abuse, Sex Blogger Lena Chen Reclaims Her Identity, Sophie Fenella Robins, VICE
2017 Harcelée en ligne, Lena Chen revient en posant nue, Emilie Brouze, Rue89
2017 Lena vs. Elle: Das Leben mit zwei Identitäten, Julia Tilk, i-ref
2017 The Life and Death of Elle Peril, podcast, Unscrewed with Jaclyn Friedman
2017 Lena Chen on Identity, Sexuality, Trauma and Revenge Porn, podcast, Sex Out Loud with Tristan Taormino
Talks & Lectures
2018 “#NSFW: Sex, Online Persona, & Feminist Art”, moderator/speaker, SXSW, Austin, TX 2018 “Live Nude Girls: Feminist Art & Sex Work in the Digital Age”, re:publica, Berlin, Germany
2017 “Sex on Stage: Creative Activism & Performing Arts”, New Women Space, Brooklyn, NY 2014 “This house believes promiscuity is a virtue not a vice”, speaker, Oxford Union, Oxford University, U.K.
2014 “How To Lose Your Virginity”, panelist, Center For Sex & Culture, San Francisco, CA 2012 “Writing Sex: A Panel On Sex-Positive Writing”, Yale University, New Haven, CT 2012 “Authentic Relationships and Online Identities”, panelist, Sex::Tech Conference, San Francisco, California
2011 “Sex in the Digital Age”, panelist, SXSW, Austin, TX
2011 “An Evening With Gloria Steinem & Young Feminist Leaders”, panelist, sponsored by Women’s Media Center, Herbst Theater, San Francisco, CA
2011 “Feminism 3.0: New Frontiers Of Media Activism”, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2011 “Ain’t I A Woman: Race In The Feminist Movement”, Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY 2011 “Deconstructing the Myth of Sexual Purity”, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA
2010 “Naomi Wolf Talks With Feminism’s New Leaders”, panelist, sponsored by More Magazine, 92Y Tribeca, New York, NY
2010 “The Social Transformation of Sexual Norms In America”, senior thesis presentation, Undergraduate Gender Research Conference, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA