Jun Chen (b. 1960), based in Brisbane, trained in traditional Chinese brush painting at the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China. He migrated to Australia in 1990, and completed his masters in fine art at the Queensland University of Technology. Since the late 1990s he has exhibited regularly in Australia and Asia. A regular finalist in the Wynne and Archibald prizes, in 2021 he was a finalist in both: with a landscape painted in central Queensland, Dried Bush and his portrait of fellow Brisbane artist Joe Furlonger. Recognisable by their thickly applied paint and expressive, gestural quality, his oil paintings are held in public institutions including the collection of Parliament House, Canberra, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and Guangzhou Art Gallery in China, and in private collections throughout Australia and abroad.
