Mark Chen centers his practice on photography. He invents and repurposes tools as he pushes media boundaries, devising new processes that make possible the executions of his concepts. For his latest series Pilgrimage of Light  which explores the mysterious coexistence of the universe, Earth and people, Mark Chen travels to hard-to-reach wilderness to project galactic images, altering landscapes while he photographs them. The production of this series received a boost from his residency at Grand Canyon National Park in 2023 and 2024. Chen’s 2025 engagements  include the artist in residence at Music@Menlo, California, exhibitions in Write Gallery, Texas A and M University, Hong Kong Art Week, International Art and Science Museum, Texas, and a feature article Where Space and Time Merge in National Geographic Magazine’s March, 2025 issue.