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ABBY CHEN is an art director and graphic designer based in New York City.

She creates culturally and socially engaged designs through identity systems, websites, printed matters, and exhibitions.

CURRENTLY:
Apple (2022–)

PREVIOUSLY:
The Metropolitan Museums of Art (2019–22)
Axios (2018–19);
Gallery & Associates (2015–18);
Google Creative Lab (2014–15);
Wkshps (2014, 2020);
Synoptic Office (2013–17);
New York Times Magazine (2014)

VISITING CRITIC/PRESS:
Parsons the New School for Design
Maryland Institue College of Art;
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design;
AIGA Eye on Design︎︎︎

CONTACT:
abby.w.chen@gmail.com
ABBY CHEN is an art director and graphic designer based in New York City.

She creates culturally and socially engaged designs through identity systems, websites, printed matters, and exhibitions.

CURRENTLY:
Apple (2022–)

PREVIOUSLY:
The Metropolitan Museums of Art (2019–22)
Axios (2018–19);
Gallery & Associates (2015–18);
Google Creative Lab (2014–15);
Wkshps (2014, 2020);
Synoptic Office (2013–17);
New York Times Magazine (2014)

VISITING CRITIC/PRESS:
Parsons the New School for Design
Maryland Institue College of Art;
Pennsylvania College of Art & Design;
AIGA Eye on Design︎︎︎

CONTACT:
abby.w.chen@gmail.com

Before Yesterday We Could Fly: An Afrofuturist Period Room
2021
Identity and exhibition graphics for a speculative Afrofuturist period room that embraces the African and African diasporic belief that the past, present, and future are interconnected and that informed speculation may uncover many possibilities. The installation is only one proposition for what might have been, had Seneca Village been allowed to thrive into the present and beyond.

Lead curator and designer: Hannah Beachler︎︎︎
Consulting curator: Michelle D. Commander︎︎︎
The Met curitorial team: Sarah Lawrence, Ian Alteveer, Ana Matisse Donefer-Hickie
Exhibition design: Fabiana Weinberg︎︎︎
Lighting design: Amy Nelson︎︎︎
Production: Sarah Parke, Maanik Singh
Design manager: Alicia Cheng, Anna Rieger︎︎︎