To know Yng-Ru Chen is to understand the phrase “force of nature.” The Founder and CEO of Praise Shadows Art Gallery gives the impression that controlling the weather or bringing dead things back to life would not be beyond her powers. It’s as if rather than operating within an existing ecosystem, she creates one around her—one people are rushing to inhabit.
As the independent curator Maggie Adler put it: “She inspires loyalty in scholars and curators around the world and draws them into her orbit—so much so that I hopped a plane at the eleventh hour from Texas when she told me that I couldn’t miss her latest opening night in Boston. Done and done..."
