Céline Shen

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Céline Shen (b. 1988, France) is a French multidisciplinary artist, designer, and researcher based in Paris. Her transdisciplinary practice examines the permeability between artistic fields and advances an “imaginal” approach that seeks a synesthetic continuum between forms : art, design, choreography, fashion, and digital creation, toward a perpetually evolving body of work. Working across physical and virtual registers, she develops phygital dispositifs in which material operates as an interface and gesture as a poetic language.

Céline Shen’s training combines philosophy at Sorbonne University, dance at the Institut Supérieur des Arts et des Chorégraphies (ISAC), and fashion design at the École des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD). This trajectory informs a practice attentive to both conceptual inquiry and embodied knowledge, articulated through textiles, performance, sensory installation, and immersive media. Her work engages societal and art-historical questions surrounding authentication and copying, aura and reproduction, domestic space, and the potential of design. It also resonates with the legacy of 1990s “design for disassembly” and extends into contemporary explorations of human–machine interfaces under conditions of digital ubiquity and decentralization.

Shen received the ADAGP “Révélation Design” Prize (2019) and was the subject of a portrait on ARTE. In 2021, she was awarded the Zeugma Innovation Prize, and in 2022 joined the Station F incubator. She co-founded Orion 3000 (O3) with Yvonne Senouf, a Web3 platform dedicated to digital art and space imaginaries, bringing together artists, engineers, scientists, futurists, and researchers around models of collective intelligence.

In 2023, she presented a choreographic fashion performance featuring robots in collaboration with SoftBank Robotics and was invited to Hong Kong for her solo exhibition “Nexus Design,” organized by the Hong Kong and Macao consulate. In 2025, she has also held an artist residency at the Abbaye de Maubuisson.

Central to her methodology is a research-driven ecosystem developed in close collaboration with Paris-based scientific and technological laboratories. Within this framework, she is currently conceiving projects that mobilize immersive technologies and artificial intelligence across design, choreography, fashion, and visual art to produce transformative aesthetic experiences and to test emerging paradigms in which art and science cross-pollinate while preparing her next solo show.

Education

Station F, Paris
Schoolab incubation program in partnership with the region Ile-de-France
2022 - 2024

ENSADlab laboratory, Paris
Pre-doctorate in fashion, arts and new technologies
2020 - 2021

Ecole des Arts Décoratifs (ENSAD), Paris
Master II in Fashion Design
2014 - 2019

Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts - Institut Supérieur des Arts et Chorégraphie (ISAC), Brussels
Master I in choreography
2016 - 2018

Paris I - La Sorbonne, Paris.
Bachelor of Philosophy
2007 - 2010

Institut National des Langues Orientales (INALCO), Paris
Bachelor of Chinese civilization studies
2007 - 2010

Workshops, Residencies

Workshop Modart, Paris
Feb 2026

Workshop ENAMOMA, Paris
Sept 2025

Residency at Abbaye de Maubuisson, Saint Ouen de l’aumône
Aug - sept 2025

Workshop by DANAE on Collaborative Generative AI
Jun 2025

Workshop ENAMOMA, Paris
Sept 2024

Residency at Draup x Vertical Crypto, London
Sept 2023

Residency at Non Etoile, tour Orion, Montreuil
2023 - 2024

Residency and portrait «atelier A» on the french Arte channel at Mains d’oeuvres, Saint-ouen
Oct 2021

Residency at Musée de la Centrale, festival ISAC, Brussels
Jun 2018

Residency at Dexia (ISAC), brussels
Jun 2017

Residency at la raffinerie (ISAC), brussels
Jan 2017

Residency at Centrales Fies, Fies
oct 2016

Artist talks

Talk on “Celine Shen’s Ecosystem” at Esmod Paris, March 2026

Talk on Fashion as an “undisciplined” Field at Sciences Po, Paris
Oct 2025

Talk on Art, Tech and Blockchain by Danae at Soho house, Paris
Sept 2025

Talk « The neural canvas : AI brain tech and the future of creative consciousness» during AI summit at the French Senate with the support of the French Ministry of culture at the AI action summit.
Mar 2025

Talk «Solnana, web 3 & art ecosystem» by Solana, Paris
Dec 2024

Talk enamoma, «Art, fashion and new technologies : cross pollinisation paradigm»
Sept 2024

Talk «Jeu est un autre», Designer days at ENSAD, Paris
May 2024

Talk « Cultural pollination: arts and sciences in dialogue» by Carré sur Seine at musée des années 30, Boulogne
Apr 2024

Talk « Fashion in all its states» at Ecole des Arts Decoratifs animated and programmed by the philosopher Emanuele Coccia, Paris
Nov 2023

Talk «Web 3 & privacy» at Game on event, Hong Kong
Nov 2023

Talk on the rights of author and artists organized by adagp, Paris
Feb 2023

Talk «Kinehaptic project» at Vivatech, Paris
Jun 2022

Talk at the round table « Creation at the time of NFT» at Revolution NFT, organized by the Sales council and the Academy of fine arts at the Institut of France, Paris
Mar 2022

Solo exhibitions

Nexus design, during November Innovation organized by Hong Kong French Consul, Hong Kong
Nov 2023

Cosmologies II, at Garage amelot, Paris
Oct 2023

«Tune into nature - Territory IV, random computing volute» in collaboration with United Robotics Group and Lutin Userlab at the DRP festival, Paris
Sept 2023

Cosmologies AR game, Tuileries Garden, Paris
Sept 2023

Gallery Celine Shen live 2nd edition, Paris
May 2023

Gallery Celine Shen live 1st edition, Paris
Mar 2023

Cosmologies I, Paris
Apr 2021

Collective exhibitions (selection)

Performing arts, costumes interventions

Codes Morpho Senses, at Chateau de Fontainebleau, Paris, 2026
in Fashion-Z, le Festival des modes nouvelles porté par le Campus d’excellence Mode, Métiers d’Art & Design (MoMADe), organisée par l’Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art et le Château de Fontainebleau, en collaboration avec le ministère de la Culture.

Codes Morpho during Open Factory curated by Orion3000 at Centquatre, Paris
2026

Neuro Kinehaptic in Sciences Infuses organized by Lutin Userlab at the City of sciences, Paris
2025

Nebula in collaboration with Washmachine at Increco metaverse space by Nadja Peterson Haeter and built by Anita Wielgosz
2025

Codes Morpho in AI x consciousness art manifesto at Danae.io by Ava research under the patronage of the Minister of culture, Paris
2025

Nebula en collaboration with Washmachine curated by Orion3000 Centquatre factory, Paris
2024

Seven Planets in collaboration with Olali, Artverse, Paris
2024

Solo A, Walking fumes, Projections Cycle organized by Marta Skoczeń in collaboration with Revue Désordres, Montreuil
2024

Archives box, Vzug gallery, Designer’s days, Paris
2024

Un carré de jardin, Carré sur seine, finalists exhibition at the musée des années 30, Boulogne
2024

Cyber flânerie by Orion3000 at the DRP festival in collaboration with Lutin Userlab
2023

Seven Planets, exhibe.paris utopia, Paris
2023

Seven Planets, Monaverse, New York
2023

Seven Planets, Metaverse decentraland x brawhaus, Paris
2023

Ars poetica, serie 2 by Nexus Femina during NFT Paris, Paris
2023

Ars poetica, serie 1, Artpoint gallery, Paris
2023

K, movie in collaboration with Andrés Baron curated by Emanuele Coccia at the Milan Design Film Festival, Milan
2022

L’aura du vêtement: le trousseau, videos installation and performance, 30 min, galerie de la rotonde stalingrad during the Paris Design Week, Paris
2019

On record, installation vidéos, 20 min, collective exhibition, Festival ISAC, Centrale Museum, Brussels
2018

Hommage à Y.Rainer, video dance in black and white, 10 min, Festival ISAC, la raffinerie, Brussels
2017

2nd(a(r)mo(u)r(t)), Installation, 35 min, open studio, ENSAD, Paris,
2016

Holysbos, installation performance, 20 min, ENSAD, Musée de la chasse, Paris

Demonstratio by Milo Slayers
Costumes creation for the choreographer Milo Slayers, a co-presentation of Kaaitheater and Charleroi danse, Brussels
2023

Cling cling boom by Andrés Baron
performer for the film by Andrés Baron programmed at the fondation d’entreprise Hermès, Moselle
2022

En piece-jointe
Costumes creation for choreographers Armande San Severino and Gael Germain presented at Générateur, Paris
2021

Assouvrir by Eden Tinto Collin
Performer for the piece written by Eden Tinto Collins at Béton Salon as part of the exhibition «le pli du ventre cosmique» by Jagna Ciuchta, Paris
2020

Slow Show by Dimitri Chamblas
Dancer for Slow Show at Mc93 and Galeries Lafayettes Anticipations, Paris
2019

Miscircus by John Cage
Performer for the reneactment of Miscircus by John Cage at the Centre national de la danse, Paris
2018

Paracetamol, by Fabrizia Flühler & Eliane Bertschi
Performer for the choreographed piece «paracetamol» at Centrale Museum, Brussels
2018

Travelling Mirror by Andrés Baron
Intervention as a movement preparator for the movie «travelling mirror» by Andrés Baron screened at the Bogotá international film festival, Bogotá

Two planets by Dora Garcia
Performer for «two planets» at the fondation Hermès, Brussels
2017

Folded landscape (el páramo) by Andrés Baron
Performer for the movie «folded landscape» screened at Stuttgarter filmwinter
2016

Awards, Nominations, Grants

Paris 8 Research AAP Winner
2025

French Tech Tremplin Laureate
2025

Award nominated for Carré sur seine prize
2024

PSL AAP prestation, university award grant
2023

PSL AAP prototype, university award grant
2022

Winner of PSL Pepites award by the Ministry of higher education, research and Bpifrance grant
2022

Winner of Zeugma prize by PSL in partnership with Bpifrance
2021

Finalist for the 35th edition of the Hyeres festival, jury president : Jonathan Anderson
2020

Winner ADAGP Design Revelation, jury president : matali crasset
2019

Grant, Bettencourt Schueller scholarship for fine crafts and expertise
2015

Press

In Arts & Metiers Magazine, “Céline Shen ou l’art sans frontières” by the Journalist Djamel Khames
2025

In Fvturist Magazine, “Robot Diary” by Céline Shen
2025

In Ensad, “Céline Shen, diplômée Design Vêtement 2019, est lauréate de la résidence 2025 à l’Abbaye de Maubuisson”
2025

In Monde Magazine, “Aux Frontières de l’artisanat, de l’art et des sciences, des vêtements comme des tableaux” by the journalist Sophie Abriat
2023

In Arte, “Portrait Atelier A Céline Shen”
2021

In Revue Decor, “Céline Shen ou l’Aura du vêtement” by the journalist Eric Loret
2021

In ID Magazine, “The most eco-friendly fashion from 2020’s prestigious Hyères Festival”
2020

In Fashion United, “Regard sur les collections du Festival de Hyères”
2020

In Connaissance des Arts, “ Céline Shen, Laureate de la Révelation Design de l’ADAGP”
2019

Arte Portrait - Céline Shen - Atelier A

Last Updated 24.10.31