Aric Chen is a writer and curator. He is the General and Artistic Director of Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam (NL). He curated dozens of museum exhibitions and other projects internationally and served on numerous boards and juries. Aric has published extensively and received his BA in architecture and BA in anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley (USA), and a MA in the history of design from Parsons/Cooper-Hewitt in New York (USA).