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CHEN LUO                

Chen Luo is a graphic designer and educator based in Maryland. In 2026, she will join Howard University as an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design. She has previously taught at MICA, the SMFA at Tufts University, Boston University, and UMass. Chen maintains an independent design practice, collaborating primarily with artists, galleries, and cultural institutions. She is also the co-founder of Body&Forma, a collective design practice that bridges linguistic and cultural barriers through publishing and performative workshops. Her work reconfigures reading and writing gestures as bodily acts, transforming static materials into participatory, communal, and kinetic forms of publishing. She currently explores how embodied publishing can engage diverse readerships and foster communal experiences. Her work has been 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.

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.
Zine* Together
Visual Identity and Exhibition Design
2026

Mary Y. Yang and I designed the exhibition for Zine* Together at Asia Art Archive in America. The exhibition design creates spatial conditions that activate the relational, collaborative nature of zine-making, inviting visitors in as active participants rather than passive viewer. Zine* Together is the first exhibition of its kind to examine Asian American zines not only as objects, but as actions—creative, collective, and relational. Drawing from Asia Art Archive in America’s Reading Room collection, this exhibition highlights collaboratively produced zines from 2010 to the present, alongside newly commissioned projects and prompts that trace zine-making as a mode of shared authorship and community building. (Photo credit: Argenis Apolinario; Ananya Malagi)
Awakening the Dragon: Role Playing Guide

Workshop Identity Design
2026

This visual identity was created for Awakening the Dragon: Role Playing Guide Workshop, a participatory event led by Lani Asunción and Joanna Tam as part of the Hidden Histories Artists-in-Residence program and The Reckonings Project Community Network Series exploring Boston’s dragon boat histories, archival memory, and AANHPI community narratives. The design combines bold typography with a custom icon system inspired by dragon boats, waves, paddling, masks, and collective storytelling, creating a visual language that feels ceremonial, active, and communal.
HOW DO YOU THROW A
BRICK THROUGH THE WINDOW

Publication Design
2025

Co-designed with Chuck Gonzales for the exhibition How do you throw a brick through the window…
The project brings together writings and conversations around disability, activism, access, and forms of protest. Grateful to contribute to the visual and editorial language of this publication and to collaborate with Tufts University Art Galleries and the John Michael Kohler Arts Center.
Late update in 2025