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Through live modeling, drawing, and emerging performance-based practices, Chen explores the relationship between body, time, and sustained attention. His work emphasizes endurance, precision, and a quiet intensity, making him particularly suited to long-duration poses, performative installations, and research-driven artistic contexts.
He has worked as a live model for Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in Shenyang and with independent artists’ workshops. Chen lives and works between China and France.
Education
1991 – 1995
Bachelor of Science (BSc) – Mechanical Engineering
Shenyang University of Technology, China
Professional Experience
2013 – Present
Live Model, Artist (Drawing & Painting)
- Shenyang Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts
- Independent artists’ workshops, Shenyang
Works regularly as a live model for academic drawing and painting classes.
Develops a personal drawing and painting practice focused on form, repetition, and inner perception.
2005 – 2011
Supply Chain Coordinator
Shenyang Tianli Chemical Co., Ltd.
Coordination of logistics, suppliers, and production planning in an industrial environment.
1995 – 2004
Tool Design Engineer
Shenyang Gas Compressor Manufacturer
Design and technical development of industrial tools and mechanical components.
Artistic Practice
- Live model for long and short poses
- Installation and durational performance (in development)
- Drawing and painting as daily practice
- Develops wood and linoleum engravings and small-edition prints, exploring repetition, line structure, and sustained manual concentration.
Printmaking focus: wood or lino engraving, inked prints that echo his meticulous lines, repetition, and quiet endurance.
Exhibitions
2018 – 2019
Group exhibitions – Shenyang Drawing Contests, China
2026 – Juin
Solo exhibitions – Actisce Censier centre à Paris, France
Residency
2026 – 2028
ENSAD & Silver Linings Arts, Paris, France
2-year in-house employment contract as an artist, in collaboration with ENSAD Paris.
Additional Information
- Recognized disability status (China)
- This status does not limit professional artistic activity
- Particularly suited to live modeling, performance, and installation contexts
Languages
Chinese (Mandarin): Native
Profile
Artist, live model, and performer with a background in mechanical engineering.
Hengtong Chen brings a rare combination of technical rigor, bodily awareness, and sustained presence developed through both industrial experience and long-term artistic practice. His singular perceptual and cognitive profile informs a deeply focused, grounded, and enduring approach to live modeling and installation-based performance.
Hengtong Chen — an artist of stillness, slow time, and quiet precision.
Hengtong’s work is not about expansion or spectacle. It is born from limits he lives with, from a deep caution toward chaos, and from a steady, almost fragile calm that he nevertheless sustains, day after day.
Trained as a mechanical engineer, he turned inward after life’s shocks and found a new discipline in drawing, engraving, and live modeling. The result is a practice where form, repetition, and presence are anchors—keeping the body and the viewer both grounded.
His singularity is simple but profound:
- a mind that stays with one line, one plate, one pose for hours;
- a body that offers stillness without theatricality;
- an attention that tests time rather than rushes through it.
This is not an art of frenzy. It is an art of containment, endurance, and inner order. It trusts that meaning can come from the smallest marks, the quietest gaze, and the long duration of careful work.
Because of who he is—and how he lives—Hengtong is especially suited to longduration poses, to performance or installation settings where time is the material, and to researchdriven artistic contexts that honor subtlety over spectacle. His calm is his claim; his limits are his method; his art is the proof.