Principal of the firm, Ms. Chen is a fine art appraiser and art assets manager working with private art collections. Prior to that, Louise worked for her mentor-the prominent New York art gallerist Stefan Stux since mid-2000s. With an additional focus on Asian art, she worked on a dozen of well-acclaimed Stux exhibitions, featuring prominent Asian contemporary artists as well as prestigious international artists. Growing up in a family of French and Chinese descent with a distinguished ancestry on both sides and a longstanding tradition of studying and collecting fine and decorative arts, Louise is one of the very few of her generation in today's international art business world, who are committed to and capable of navigating between the classical and the avant-garde, the academia and the marketplace.

A USPAP-compliant art appraiser trained in the NYU program, Louise Chen also holds an M.A. at Georgetown University where she studied international business development, finance and accounting at the globally top-ranking Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, while focusing her study and research on fine art, visual culture and media, art connoisseurship, 19th and 20th century modern and post-war art movements in Europe and Asia,  and a comparative analysis of the interwoven relationship between art media, gallery /dealer system and art institutions in light of different cultural economic landscapes. When trained at the public program department of National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, she has curated exhibitions of Chinese contemporary Art at galleries in Washington, DC and New York. Louise has also worked for the leading art media publications and corporations Art Forum and Blouin Artinfo, for which she consulted during the launch of the multilingual online platforms of Artforum and Blouin Artinfo, as well as published a large number of auction reviews, art market analysis and Asian art review, which have often been translated to Chinese and French and republished by other art media.