Jia Chen was born in Kuala Lumpur, the capital city of Malaysia. As a film graduate, he works across the film industry in Malaysia as a videographer and cinematographer, and is currently active in the commercial industry across different departments. Jia Chen has also worked on the feature film You Mean the World to Me (2017) with renowned cinematographer Christopher Doyle as an assistant producer. For his final graduation film Primal (2018), Jia Chen was nominated for the Best Cinematography at the Griffith Film School among his cohorts.