Chazen Powell (b. Fort Worth, TX, 1986) is a Black and Filipina artist, based in the Bay Area, whose work explores the knowledge of self as a path to liberation, contemplating themes of inheritance, identity, paradox, and integration. Following a non-traditional route, her creative path diverged during the pandemic, leading her away from a longstanding career in the corporate world. 

Powell’s creative process embraces multiplicity and subconscious spontaneity, allowing the natural pull of curiosity to select the materials, techniques, or forms that illuminate what is ready to be seen within the artist. With this approach, her practice spans an open range of mediums that include paint, ink, thread, metal, and sound as a singer-songwriter and guitarist. She is drawn to repetitive, meditative methods that cultivate inner silence and observation.

The psychospiritual nature of her work reflects a formal education in theology and counseling, with interests in womanism, nonduality, and the nature of change. The intention of her work is to examine the potency of the relationship to oneself.