Wen-ti Tsen

Wen-ti Tsen is a painter and public artist. He was born in China, lived in Paris and London before coming to the U.S. to study at Boston Museum School. Since the mid-1970s, he has been engaged in making art that explores cultural connections. It takes the forms of paintings and mix-media installations made in the studio; large-scale sculptural works in public places; and community art projects working with grass-root organizations. 

His public works include “Dream Catching”, a bronze-and-steel sculpture along the 400-ft. façade of Boston Arts Academy; “Pilgrim Father/Illegal Son”, a 60-foot oral-history graphic mural that contrasts and parallels the lives of an undocumented Chinese worker and of William Bradford of the Mayflower; and “Home Town”, a set of 12 life-size painted figures of Chinese immigrants displayed around the public spaces in Boston’s Chinatown.

In the studio, he recently completed a series of six 4’x8’ paintings, titled “Concord NH”, that depicts the daily living as Americans of two old friends from Beirut, who settled in Concord many years ago.