Portfolio / 2026
Jonathan
Chen
Painter · Miami
Paintings following memory, masks, transformation, and the strange tenderness of familiar things.
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Painting as a place where memory, masks, tenderness, and unease can exist together.
The archive
18 paintings and mixed-media works. Open any piece to view it without cropping and move through the collection.
The work before
the work.
Sketches, partial paintings, process photographs, material tests, and unfinished ideas—shown as evidence of a practice still becoming.
Faces first, then everything around them.
Jonathan Chen is a self-taught painter based in Miami, working across painting, drawing, and visual storytelling. He has drawn since childhood and returned to painting as his primary practice in 2025, after studying finance and information systems.
His work moves between personal symbols, emotional landscapes, familiar subjects made strange, and strange subjects made tender. The practice is drawn to duality: life and death, chaos and harmony, creation and destruction.