Yesterday: A group exhibition.
N.Smith Gallery5 - 28 Jun 2025What triggers nostalgia? It carries the warmth of memories, the weight of longing, and the bittersweet recognition of our lives lived. Yesterday is a group exhibition by the gallery's represented...Read moreArchibald & Wynne Prizes 2025
Art Gallery of NSW10 May - 17 Aug 2025We are delighted to announce Joan Ross, Fiona Lowry, Natasha Walsh, Vipoo Srivilasa, Holly Anderson, and Casey Chen are finalists in the Archibald and Wynne Prizes. Joan Ross is...Read moreThe Interior.
N.Smith Gallery3 Apr - 3 May 2025The exhibition The Interior invites viewers into a world of intimate spaces, where the boundaries between the interior and the exterior blur. Through diverse mediums and artistic practices, this exhibition...Read moreCasey Chen: Another Jingdezhen Car Boot Sale.
N.Smith Gallery30 Jan - 22 Feb 2025Another Jingdezhen Car Boot Sale combines traditional Chinese ceramics with pop culture in a playful and thought-provoking exploration of storytelling, myth, and nostalgia. Drawing inspiration from the porcelain capital of...Read moreCasey Chen: Double Happiness
N.Smith Gallery8 Aug - 7 Sep 2024In this series, Chen masterfully weaves together elements of pseudo-historical aesthetics with contemporary pop symbolism. The dragons, floral motifs, and geometric patterns evoke a sense of nostalgia, yet they are...Read moreGeneration Clay: Reimagining Asian Heritage.
Bunjil Place Gallery, Victoria3 Aug - 24 Nov 2024Generation Clay: Reimagining Asian Heritage is an exhibition celebrating the vibrant versatility of clay, presented by a new generation of Asian-Australian contemporary artists. Together, these artists are reimagining traditional and...Read moreSunrise, Sunset.
N.Smith Gallery30 May - 8 Jun 2024To celebrate the gallery's 3rd birthday, 15 of the gallery's represented artists are brought together thematically. Holly Anderson Tom Blake Joshua Charadia Casey Chen Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro Fiona...Read moreCasey Chen: 108 Stars and Spirits.
N.Smith Gallery1 - 16 Dec 2023For Casey Chen, the vessel represents all things enduring. History, family, & customs are recontextualised when childhood nostalgia is blended with long-standing East Asian ceramic traditions. By applying this imagery...Read moreCeramic Stories [digital connections]
Australian Design Centre, Darlinghurst30 Nov 2023 - 25 Jan 2024Ceramic Stories [digital connections] presents diverse ceramic sculptures, objects and installations fused with digital activations. Four Sydney-based emerging ceramic artists tell stories about their cultural backgrounds and influences drawing on...Read moreCasey Chen: Bombs Away.
N.Smith Gallery1 - 17 Dec 2022Casey Chen’s work jumps between nostalgia and futurity, the oriental and ornamental. Ceramic sutures form fragments of entrusted memories and lives so beautifully. A unique mix of perspectives and ideas,...Read moreRed inc.
Firstdraft | Sydney6 Jul - 14 Aug 2022Red Inc. is both an exhibition and collective, featuring the work of eight East-Asian Australian artists – Casey Chen, Chris Chew, Rosemary Lee, Tya Tey, Yu Xin Jia, Morus Quin,...Read moreCasey Chen:
N.Smith Gallery2 - 26 Mar 2022
Sentimental Ornaments.A unique mix of perspectives and ideas, Sentimental Ornaments is a collection of new work that blends childhood nostalgia together with long-standing East Asian ceramic traditions. Behind each work lies...Read moreGosford Ceramics Prize 2021
Gosford Regional Gallery22 Oct 2021 - 9 Jan 2022Blending childhood nostalgia with long-standing East Asian ceramic traditions, Chen applies his imagery to hand-thrown plates and vases, which are then fused with geometric patterns from traditional sources. The result...Read moreOpening Exhibition:
N.Smith Gallery4 - 6 Jun 2021
Welcome.N.Smith Gallery is proud and super excited to introduce you to the work of the gallery's represented artists: Jordan Azcune, Tom Blake, Casey Chen, Neva Hosking, Kyra Mancktelow, Dylan Mooney,...Read moreCasey Chen: Lazy Dynamite
Bathurst Regional Art Gallery20 Feb - 5 Apr 2021Blending childhood nostalgia with long-standing East Asian ceramic traditions, Chen applies his imagery to hand-thrown plates and vases, which are then fused with geometric patterns from traditional sources. The result...Read moreCasey Chen: NAS Graduate Show
National Art School | Sydney11 - 20 Dec 2020For the National Art School 2020 Grad Show, Chen drew upon imagery and motifs from the archetypal tales of the four great classic novels of Chinese literature: Romance of the...Read more