B. 1986, Taiwan. Lives and works in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.
Chang’s works have won first prize of the Kaohsiung Awards (2019), were selected in Taoyuan International Art Award (2021), Taipei Art Awards (2020) and nominated for Taishin Arts Award (2019, 2020), have been presented in the National Art Exhibition (2017), and are part of the collection in the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and Art Bank Taiwan. His works have been exhibited and screened in museums, galleries, biennials and festivals across Taiwan and international art scenes.
The artist has participated in artist residency programs in Taiwan, Korea, Nepal, Norway, Finland and The Netherlands, and took part in the post-earthquake reconstruction and art exchange program Solastalgia (Nepal, 2017), and The Arctic Circle (Norway, 2017). He participated in Mediations Biennale (Poland, 2018), as cross-disciplinary scholar in ICHSEA (Korea, 2019), in PORT JOURNEYS annual meeting (Taiwan, 2019), in collateral exhibition of Taiwan Biennial (Taiwan, 2020), as visiting artist to Rinehart School of Sculpture, MICA (USA, 2021), in Pan-Austro-Nesian Art Festival (Taiwan, 2021), Biennale Jogja (Indonesia, 2021) and SMIFest (Spain, 2021).
Chang regards ocean as a worldview diverse from the current terrestrial civilization of Anthropocene, and interprets various issues and phenomena in the contemporary context as a complex, macro-system and in forms of interconnected waters, currents and tides. Besides, he regards water as the medium penetrating everything from the inner to the outer worlds, to embody the unstable state of transition, flow and anti-subjectivity corresponding to his homeland Taiwan under subtropical monsoon climate. His art practices deal with those rapid-changing environments like ship, island, water as well as port, and through textural and spatial processes of investigation, collection, interweave and reconstruction, in which he tries to unveil the universal experiences, tension and grey area between human, civilization and nature constantly shaping each other.
His artworks are usually realized based on a core narrative text or by means of storytelling, and integrate with keen craftsmanship multiple forms and media including video, installation, photography, painting, documents as well as site-specific project and workshop etc. Chang states art as an initiative to promote the maritime culture in public education and knowledge systems worldwide, and he was the co-founder of alternative art space Waley Art in western Taipei.
