Luna Shen is an emerging artist whose practice focuses on unearthing the dysphoric and persistent feelings that come from unbelonging. Her motivations to clarify the experience of worldly homelessness stems from her family’s migration patterns and her own transcultural and transnational migrations. She is based in Vermont, USA, and “from” parts of the USA and China.

Shen graduated from Middlebury College, Vermont, USA, with a BA in Sociology and currently works as a social worker in a homeless shelter in Vermont. Shen’s art practice is informed by her Sociology education and witnessing of the human condition in relation to home-spaces. Her work’s conceptual roots derive from the intersection between academic theories and personal experiences, such as migration, the Self, object-permanence, and dream-states. She works in ink and paper, and her recent works are sculptures that combine mediums commonly associated with her sense of “home,” like rusted metals, concrete, felt, stockings, hair, and spit.