Qiheng Chen earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from Chelsea College of Arts, UK, and his Master’s degree in Media Art from the School of Experimental Art at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, China. He lives and works in Guangzhou and is a research-driven visual artist whose practice spans film, photography, text, and sculpture.

Since 2020, Chen has explored the intersections of plants, identity, gender, and culture through the motif of the orchid. Drawing on personal and familial experiences, his research examines the psychological tensions of individuals within traditional family structures, while engaging with ecological reflections on the “nature/human” binary.

His recent work focuses on the Chinese orchid as a point of entry, revisiting the aesthetics of the junzi (gentleman/君子) and gender dynamics in traditional Chinese culture. He initiated the Orchid Pavilion project (蘭亭無序), aiming to reconstruct the connections between orchids, everyday life, and culture through re-interpretation and community-based learning, and continues to explore possibilities of identity fluidity and symbiosis through the practice of “becoming an orchid.”