Yi Ching Chen is a Contemporary Taiwanese artist currently based in Paris. She is well-known for her landscape paintings characterised with delicateness and precision inherent in the Nihonga style, a Japanese traditional painting technique that emerged during the Meiji period (1868-1912). Her multi-panel artworks reveal a close connection with the elements of nature, not only with the subjects but also with the materials used in its technical creation, such as earth and mineral pigments. Her artworks convey a mystic ambience, revealing the artistʼs mind and sensibility.

Yi Ching Chenʼs exquisite skills and long experience make her one of the most eminent contemporary Nihonga artists in Europe. In 2002, she was admitted to study at the renowned Institute of Fine Arts at the Kyoto Municipal University of Arts under Takao Yamazaki, a prominent representative of the Nitten movement. In 2003, she was awarded the Shouhaku Museumʼs Grand Prize for her painting Kabocha. Atsushi Uemura, an eminent master of Nihonga, also recognised her immense talent, offering her a studio and the opportunity to study under his guidance after completing her Masterʼs Degree. Following her success, in 2004, she held her first solo exhibition at the Nasic Square Gallery in Kyoto.

Driven by her admiration of the late 19th century Impressionists, in 2004, she relocated her practice to France, establishing a Nihonga atelier. Due to her immense expertise, she was appointed as a professor at the National Museum of Asian Arts Guimet, France. She also wrote the first book dedicated to the mastery of the Nihogha style in French. Yi Ching Chen exhibited several times in East Asia and Europe, contributing to the international popularisation of the Nihonga style. Although the practice has only a few representatives based in Europe, it attracts a growing interest amongst admirers and collectors of contemporary Western art.