Movana Chen (b.1974) lives and works in both Hong Kong and Lisbon.
Since 2004 she has been weaving people's stories through KNITerature - a genre that involves the deconstruction and reconstruction of meanings and content by knitting books. Her work is a multi-disciplinary fusion of media, performance, installation and sculpture.

Chen studied fashion design at London College of Fashion, UK; Fine Art at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT), Hong Kong. Chen’s work is in the collections of the Hong Kong Heritage Museum and CHAT (Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile, Hong Kong.) Her work has been shown in numerous group and solo exhibitions across the world. In Autumn 2020, she had a solo exhibition at the Flowers Gallery, Hong Kong and group exhibited as part of Sight Unseen – Forking Paths in the CHAT collection at CHAT, Hong Kong. In Spring 2020, she had a solo exhibition titled KNITerature – Silent conversation at Andong Culture and Art Centre in Korea.