Yin-Ju Chen interprets social power and history through cosmological systems. Utilizing astrology, sacred geometries, and alchemical symbols, she considers human behavior, nationalism, imperialism, state violence, totalitarianism, utopian formations, and collective thinking. Recently, she has been exploring the material effects of spiritual, shamanic, and Buddhism practices and the metaphysical potentialities of consciousness. She has participated in many international exhibitions and film festivals, inclduing at Shanghai Biennial (2023, 2014), Taipei Biennial (2023, 2020, 2012), Tate Modern Starr Cinema (2023), ICA at NYU Shanghai (2022), Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2021), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (2021), Gwangju Biennale (2021), Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art (2019), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2018, 2011), Transmediale (2018), Liverpool Biennial (2016), Forum Expanded at the Berlinale (2016), Biennial of Sydney (2016), and the Central Academy of Fine Arts Museum Biennale (2014) among others. She lives and works in Taipei.