陳雋然 / CHUN YIN RAINBOW CHAN 
 

Chun Yin Rainbow Chan (陳雋然) is an interdisciplinary artist, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist based between Naarm/Melbourne and Gadigal/Sydney. Working fluidly across contemporary visual art, music and live performance, her practice examines cultural representation, translation, matrilineal inheritance, feminist expression and diasporic identity. Central to her work is the research and reimagining of women’s oral traditions, particularly the bridal laments of Hong Kong’s 圍頭 Waitau/Weitou women, to whom she has deep ancestral ties. Through immersive installations combining silk painting, sound and video, she reinterprets these culturally endangered songs into contemporary artistic forms that preserve their subversive feminist voices while reflecting on loss, resilience and solidarity.

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Chan holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from the University of Sydney and a Master of Fine Arts (Research) from UNSW. She has exhibited and performed widely across Australia and internationally at institutions and festivals including the Sydney Opera House, Phoenix Central Park, Carriageworks, Melbourne Music Week, Iceland Airwaves, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Tai Kwun Contemporary, M+ (Hong Kong), SXSW, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Firstdraft, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Cement Fondu, Blindside, Queensland University Art Museum, Australian National University, and I-Project Space (Beijing).

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Her work has received major commissions and recognition. She is the inaugural artist behind ABC Bullion’s Arts Series Coin Program with her artwork design The Fire Horse (2026). In 2024, she was commissioned by the Yokohama Triennale (Japan) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia for Primavera: Young Australian Artists. Her installation Fruit Song is held in the Art Gallery of New South Wales collection.

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As a musician, Chan’s work is recognised for its fusion of experimental pop, electronic production and Cantonese influences. Her releases Spacings (2016), Pillar (2019) and Stanley (2021) received critical praise from outlets including The Guardian, Rolling Stone Australia and ABC. Her documentary Songs from a Walled Village (ABC Radio National, 2021) was a finalist in the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union Prizes. Chan won Artist of the Year at the 2022 FBi Radio SMAC Awards and was named among the “40 Under 40: Most Influential Asian Australians” for her contributions to arts and culture.

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Her one-woman performance The Bridal Lament—a reimagining of Weitou wedding rituals through song, movement and animation—has been presented at Arts House, OzAsia, Liveworks and Riverside Theatres (Sydney Festival). The work was co-commissioned by Performance Space (Liveworks Festival 2023) and OzAsia Festival 2023, with support from Carriageworks, and the City of Melbourne through Arts House and Contemporary Asian Australian Performance.

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Chan served on the Board of 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art (2020–2024) and is a current member of Next Wave’s Arts Advisory.

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