Meicen Meng is a Chinese-born, New York City-based transdisciplinary artist whose work moves across film, photography, mixed media, and graphic novel—rooted in a single vision: to tell stories so true and personal they become universal.
Their Chinese heritage taught them Taoism, impermanence, and the red threads that connect us all. Now deeply involved in the Asian queer trans artist community in Brooklyn, they have learned how to become, how to grieve, how to choose themselves—how to be fully alive.
Their first narrative film, "Beyond the Green Mountain," was a finalist in the Coppola Short Film Competition, selected by Gus Van Sant. It screened at the Museum of the Moving Image and traveled to festivals internationally. The film tells the story of queer yearning in a place where that love had no language. It taught them that their own tender vulnerability could build a bridge to reach other people's souls.
Their latest work, "Summer in Close Up," is a photography zine shot on 35mm film—a love letter to their vibrant queer community in New York. Bound with red thread in the style of traditional Chinese bookbinding, it led to their first solo exhibit, which drew nearly 200 people on opening night.
Meicen makes art as a spiritual practice.They believe the most radical thing an artist can do is live fully, and make art from that life. The healing of the individual will leads to the healing of the collective.
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