Chen ​graduated from Gobelins L'école de L'image / Character Animation and Animated Filmmaking with the graduation film "Good Job." She was employed at BV Animation Studio as 2D animator for one year, worked on the TV series "Curious George" and on the animation movie "Bamse and the Thunderbell." In addition, she indipendently produced and animated short films, among them "Just want home" (都市遊牧人), which was awarded at FILM MIAMI FEST BEST SHORT WORLDWIDE, and "The golden fish" (金魚), which was selected for West Texas Film Festival.​ Chen also contributed to the exhibition "Prison Island of Taiwan: Landscape of Injustice and Memorial Object of Monuments of Injustice" of the National Human Rights Museum (Jing-Mei), Taipei, Taiwan, on the sites of the White Terror.