Chris Deng
is a socially engaged, multi-disciplinary artist, oral history storyteller, public speaker, and arts educator born and based in New York City.
She’s the author of A Journey Ahead, a bilingual collection of oral histories from elders residing in Chinatown, Manhattan.
She’s worked with folks at Magnum Foundation, W.O.W. Project, Grand Street Settlement, Chinatown Art Brigade, and more to hold and archive stories of grief, collective memory, and resistance.
They’ve spoken at Ogilvy, Milk Makeup, CBS Evening News, King5 News, and other places about Asian-American solidarity, craft, and intergenerational community-building.
Mediums they dream in are prose, oil painting, and collage. She is currently a Brooklyn Arts Council, 2025 SU-CASA Teaching Resident.
Past Apperances
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Past Apperances *
☆ Selected Workshops
Chinatown Arts Brigade x WOW Project, Collage with Our Archives
Q-Wave, 20th Anniversary Collage
2025
2024
Grand Street Settlement, Lunar New Year Collage
2024
2023
Magnum Foundation x Abrons Art Center, Lower East Side Zine Workshop
☆ Writing
Self-published, Nonfiction Collection, A Journey Ahead
2023
Pigeon Pages, Nonfiction Essay, Grieving in Translation
2022
☆ Fellowships & Support
Brooklyn Arts Council, SU-CASA Teaching Residency
2023
Art.coop, Inaugural EAT: Economics, Arts, Transformation Program
2024
The Very Asian Foundation, Inaugural Meet the Creators Grant
2023
☆ Press
KING 5 News, Interview, Meet the Creators
2025
CBS News, Interview, Women Writing History, a Coronavirus Journaling Project
2021
Google Arts & Culture, Storyteller, Shadow Wall: Stories of Chinatown
2021