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CHEN LUO                

Chen Luo is a Graphic Designer based in Maryland. She serves as a thesis adviser at MICA. She has taught at MICA, Tufts SMFA, Boston University, and UMass from 2022 to 2025. Chen is the co-founder of Body&Forma, a collective design practice focused on bridging language barriers through publishing and performative workshops. Her work has been awarded and recognized by Communication Arts, NewOne Awards, Design 360˚, Boston Art Review, and The Young Ones TDC, and exhibited in Canada, Italy, Japan, China, Korea, and the United States. Her work shares a language of reconfiguring reading/writing gestures into bodily acts, turning static materials into participatory, communal, and kinetic forms of publishing. She currently explores how embodied publishing forms a diverse readership and communal experience.

Earthwriting

Zine and Identity Design
2025

A zine I designed for Magdalena Poost’s collection at the Greenway Public Art, bringing together performance scripts, poetry, essays, and images from eight artists responding to the urgencies of climate change, extractive capitalism, and shifting ground beneath our feet. Inspired by Sharad Chari’s idea of earth-writing and Clara Wilch’s vision of spaciousness through the arts, it invites readers to imagine new forms of public art and shared space. More map than book, it gestures toward porous futures where creativity, infrastructure, and ecology meet.
2026 Dewey Square Mural
Request for Qualification

Media Assets Identity Design
2025

A visual identity series highlights the open call, introduces the jurors, and presents the selected proposal. This landmark commission represents a significant moment of artistic and civic engagement in celebration of the nation’s 250th anniversary, expanding America’s story while envisioning the next 250 years. The 2026 Dewey Square Mural on The Greenway is developed in partnership with Embrace and Everyone250.
Interstitial Lives

Visual Identity and workshop
2023

Visual identity and plant-drawing workshop created for artist Che Yeh’s exhibition Interstitial Lives. The project fosters cross-species kinship between Boston Chinatown residents, passersby, and ruderal plants growing in urban interstices, focusing on the Ailanthus altissima (“tree of heaven”) as a living monument to resilience and memory. The workshop, Plants on Hands, co-designed with Bella Tuo, invited participants to observe, collect, and illustrate local plants using a custom toolkit with stencils and colored pencils, encouraging empathy, care, and connection to place through hands-on creative practice.


Late update in 2025