Lucia Chen serves as President and Executive Director
of the T. F. Chen Cultural Center, the New World Art Center,
the Chen Foundation, and Neo-World Enterprises. She is
also a member of the Museum Store Association; and is
also included in Strathmore's "Who's Who" and
"National Register's Who's Who in Executives and
Professionals".
Lucia Chen has had twenty-five years of experience in
the international art world as an art dealer, agent, advisor,
publisher, and collector. She has written numerous articles
concerning the international art market for various magazines,
and she is an avid collector of African art, master prints,
and contemporary artworks. Mrs. Chen specializes in curating
and promoting large-scale exhibitions, organizing and
establishing art galleries, and consulting for art investment.
She is one of the few successful Asian women in NYC who
has made a name for herself in the international contemporary
art business. Her success has been documented in several
interviews in TV and magazines.
Lucia was born in Taiwan in 1948, and was educated
at Taipei Normal College, the University of Paris, and
the University of Maryland. In 1975, Lucia married the
artist Dr. T. F. Chen. From that moment on, she immersed
herself in the art world and in her new commitment to
support her husband's career. She remarked:
| "As his wife, I knew he was not an ordinary painter, but an artist with high academic training, aesthetic ability, cultural insight and humanitarian ideals. He initiated his 'Neo-Iconography' style, bearing a deep sense of mission. Hoping that he could concentrate wholly on his study and creation, I began to manage his art and all his practical affairs. I learned through work and research." |
Lucia began to manage Dr. Chen's art in 1976, following
no market orientation, art fashion or collector's mentality.
Yet their passion, conviction, and ideals were plentiful.
Her primary goal was not to make a profit, but rather
to introduce a new art style - a new, radical school
of thought. While Chen gave himself wholeheartedly to
his vision of a New Renaissance through art, Lucia dedicated
herself completely to the realization of these dreams
into reality.
In 1980, Lucia opened up their first art gallery -
Gallery New World in Washington DC After four years,
the Chens moved their home-base to the heart of SoHo,
NYC, where the newly-named Lucia Gallery expanded and
began to branch out internationally. In 1987 and 1995,
Lucia opened up her Gallery New World in Taipei, Taiwan,
as a sister gallery.
From 1994-1996, Lucia redesigned and established a
six-story 20,000 square foot museum building to serve
as the headquarters for the New World Art Center and
the T. F. Chen Cultural Center -- a non-profit organization
dedicated to promoting Dr. T. F. Chen's dream of a global
New Renaissance and East - West cultural exchange.
Lucia Chen has produced more than 100 one-man shows
for Dr. Chen, has personally established seven galleries,
and has published several limited editions, as well
as art books, art cards, and other licensing products.
Under the T. F. Chen Cultural Center, Lucia has served
as curator for dozens of large-scale art shows for cultural
groups, for example: group shows for 150 Japanese artists,
60 Italian artists, 50 contemporary overseas Chinese
artists, 30 contemporary emerging artists, French artists,
and African American artists. In addition to bringing
in artists from around the world, Lucia has created
many cultural activities, such as poetry readings, film
screenings, musical performances, seminars, etc.
Since 2000, Lucia has been involved in organizing Chen's
three-year art tour in Taiwan which is exhibiting his
"Jade Mountain Series," increasing Chen's
presence at international art fairs, building up her
museum store's line of art merchandising and licensing,
and investing in real estate.
Through hard work, perseverance, and a refusal to accept
limitations, Lucia Chen has almost single-handedly built
her own empire in the field of art that she loves.
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