Chang Chia-Ying: born in Taipei in 1982, graduated from the Tainan University of the Arts Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts. Her works often use the theme of famous children’s sayings from East and West. Within her exquisite paintings, images always have several meanings, and are intertwined within an impossible space. She has given solo shows in many key art spaces, including the Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taitung Art Museum, Gwangju Museum, Korea, and she has participated in many joint exhibitions both within Taiwan and abroad.
Chang uses her individual linguistic system to embed a series of hints and clues in hand-written scrolls and manuscript fragments displayed in the cabinet, performing an invocation ritual through a pseudo-antique style and telling the history of people warring for the Aura stone. The story is enshrouded in a mixed look comprising medieval and contemporary elements, signaling history’s recursive path in the development of human civilization. This fantasy world which seemingly departs from reality, implicitly reflects the collective subconscious. The protagonists depicting in these portrait-like paintings remains unchangedin these paintings is the look in their eyes – a detached gaze into an emptiness and penetrates the minds of the viewing, baffled spectators, inviting their personal observations and readings.
The shadowing ambiguity is metaphorically charged – this creepy world brimming with signifiers awaits spectators to fill in their own interpretations. In between reality and dreams, Chang puts on a pink tweed ritual cloak and silently evokes the surging undercurrents of absurdities in a prismatic crystal ball before her, exposing the ever-present subconscious – sweet-looking on the outside and wise, sophisticated on the inside, the founder of “HA.HA.” has arrived.
Biography
2008 MFA, The Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts, Tainan National University of Arts, Taiwan
2005 BFA, Taipei National University of Arts, Taiwan
Solo Exhibitions
2024 Over the Rainbon, Chini Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 Coding an Inner Landscape, Chini Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2021 Color Festival, Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan
2020-21 HA.HA. THE NATIVITY OF SIDRA, Chini Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 Riddle‧Mirror‧Fantasy: Chang Chia-Ying Solo Exhibition, Taitung Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2017 Mini Me, Project Fulfill Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 Dark Shapiro, IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2014 Fairy Reincarnation of Chang Chia-Ying, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 The Moebius Fairy Tale of Chang Chia-Ying, My Humble House Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2006 The Fatty Fatty, Aki Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Telling a story with you‧Once upon a time in the future, Taipei Fine Arts Museum Children's Art Education Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 Telling a Story with You, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 ART TAIPEI, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 Between Earth and the Sky: The Spiritual State of Our Times, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 6075 Macau Hotel Art Fair, My Humble House Art Gallery, Macau KIAF
2018 ART SEOUL, Mizuiro Workshop, Seoul, Korea 2017 WEST BUND ART & DESIGN, Talent Sector, Shanghai, China
2016 Life in between Delight and Discomfort, Gwangju Museum, Gwangju, Korea
HER Gaze, An Exhibition of Contemporary Women Artists from Taiwan, Taipei Cultural Center, New York, USA
2015 In The Flesh, Chini Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
A Dream towards Fantasy: The Contemporary Encounter of Bloom & Patterns, Antnest Art Museum, Zhangzhou, Fujian Province, China
2014 YES, TAIWAN – Taiwan Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Jie: Boundaries of Self in Contemporary Art from Taiwan 1995-2013, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York, USA
2013 Marie Claire 20th Anniversary in Taiwan, Huashan 1914 Creative Park, Taipei; Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Kaohsiung Zuoying, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2012 Super-Novart, Freedom Men Art Apartments, Taichung; Elsa Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Future Pass – From Asia to the World, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Manifestation of Homunculi, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Future Pass – From Asia to the World, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2011 Future Pass – From Asia to the World, Collateral Event of the 54th Venice Biennial, Venezia, Italy
Macross, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 Reshaping History: Chinart from 2000 to 2009, China National Convention Center, Beijing, China
Super Generation@Taiwan, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2009 Super Generation@Taiwan, Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Animamix Biennial 2009-2010, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Duel Regard – The View from Taiwanese Women's Arts, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Super Generation@Taiwan, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
2008 My Humble House Formula One 2008 Exhibition of a New Generation, My Humble House Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2007 VOLTA Show 03, Do Art Gallery, Basel, Switzerland Kaohsiung Awards, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
Paradigm Shift – The Moment of Taiwan New Generation Arts, Beijing 798 New Arts Projects, Beijing, China
Taiwan Contemporary Art in Wonderland, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2006 Taipei Art Awards, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
Bodies, Virtual Paradise – The Permanent Collection of NTMFA, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Cold Q, Art Site of Chiayi Railway Warehouse, Chiayi, Taiwan
Three, Arthis Fine Art, Taichung, Taiwan
2005 I Have Told You, Tainan National College of the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan
2004 The Department of Fine Art 89th Work and Document, Taipei National College of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2002 I Have a Banquet in Danshui, Taipei, Taiwan
2001 53 EXITS, Huashan Cultural Park, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 ART TAIPEI, Taiwan
Awards
2007 Selected, Kaohsiung Awards, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2006 Best Selection, Taipei Art Awards, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan Collection
2022 Taoyuan Fine Arts Museum, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2019 Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2006 The Acquisition of Artwork by Young Artists, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
Collection
2022 Taoyuan Fine Arts Museum, Taoyuan, Taiwan
2019 Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2006 The Acquisition of Artwork by Young Artists, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
