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CHEN LUO                

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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.
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