Jiuan-Jiuan Chen joined the studio in September of 2007. She received an M.A. and C.A.S. in Art Conservation from Buffalo State College in 2001 and an M.A. in Art History from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, in 1996. Between these two courses of studies, she worked for the Northeast Document Conservation Center as a Senior Preservation Technician at the Springfield conservation lab of the Frederick Law Olmsted National Historic Site in Brookline, Massachusetts. Her graduate internships in photograph conservation took her to George Eastman House, the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, Austin, Heugh-Edmondson Conservation Services, the National Gallery of Canada, and the National Archives of Canada.
From 2001 to 2003, Ms. Chen was awarded a fellowship at the Advanced Residency Program hosted by the George Eastman House/ International Museum of Photography and Film and the Image Permanence Institute in Rochester, New York. Following the fellowship, she was appointed to the position of Assistant Director for Conservation Education at the Advanced Residency Program. During this appointment, she also served as the conservator for the George Eastman House collection. Her work entailed carrying out conservation and research projects for the museum, teaching conservation treatment, and serving as research advisor for fellows in the residency program.
In addition to conservation treatment projects and research, Ms. Chen has given several lectures and workshops dealing with the preservation and identification of photographic materials. She was an exchange scholar at the Conservation Department at the National Palace Museum, Taipei, Taiwan in December 2006. She led an intensive photograph conservation class as a guest teacher at the Graduate Institute of Conservation of Cultural Relics at Tainan National University of the Arts in Taiwan in Spring Semester, 2007.