Perry Chen is a New York City-based artist best known for being the creator of the funding platform Kickstarter, which he launched in 2009 along with co-founders Yancey Strickler and Charles Adler.Chen co-founded the Southfirst gallery in Brooklyn, New York in 2001, was a TED Fellow in 2010, and a resident of Laboratorio para la Ciudad in Mexico City in 2014.In December 2014, he exhibited "Computers in Crisis" for the New Museum's First Look program, co-presented by Rhizome and Creative Time Reports.