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Chang, Julie W

Born: 1976

Hometown: Park Ridge

Based in: San Francisco

Julie W. Chang is a San Francisco based contemporary artist whose work investigates how identities are constructed and how (mis)understandings of both self and other might be resisted, subverted, and reimagined. Her paintings use ancient and contemporary cultural symbols to make visible hidden histories and illustrate the cultural hybridity inherent in the world. Her debut exhibition with Alisan Fine Arts Light, Space and Time in New York in 2024 featured works from two series that draw from familiar visual sources like the Chinese symbol for double happiness, the Sanskrit character for AUM, a symbol of the divine in Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism, alongside less prevalent sources including African mud cloth, Japanese shibori and Native American basket weavings. Migration I, II and III, for example, take their cue from the visual and technical components of weaving. Geometric forms float across the nearly monochromatic compositions—twinkling diamond forms and other patterns at times connecting and overlapping. Incorporating resin, Chang’s Talisman series are dazzling paintings composed of intricate and colorful layers. Fusing symbols of healing, wisdom, redemption, joy, enlightenment, interdependence and peace, the works are compendiums of goodwill.

Chang received her MFA from Stanford University in 2007, her BA in Sociology from Tufts University and her BFA in Studio Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in 1999. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including the San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Jose Museum of Art, Stanford University, Transformer Gallery in Washington DC, Montserrat College of Art, Tulane University, Iowa State University and Yeditepe University in Istanbul. She was a recipient of the 2004 Murphy Cadogan Award, 2007 Headlands Center for the Arts MFA Studio Award.

 



Credentials

Education

MFA, Stanford University

United States of America, 2007

Graduate Studies in Painting/New Genres, San Francisco Art Institute

United States of America, 2005

BFA, Painting and Printmaking, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

United States of America, 1999

BA, Sociology, Tufts University, Medford

United States of America, 1999

Parsons School of Design

France, 1998

Awards

Public Art, San Francisco Transbay Transit Center, USA

2015

Public Art Commission for Iowa State University, Iowa, USA

2013

San Francisco Arts Commission Art on Market Kiosk Poster USA

2012

Kearny Street Workshop-de Young Artist Studio Residency, USA

2010

W Hotel Commission, Washington, DC, USA

2009

MFA Studio Award, Headlands Center, Sausalito, USA

2007

Murphy Fine Arts Fellowship,San Francisco Arts Commission US

2004

Educator’s Incentive Grant, San Francisco Archdiocese, USA

2004

Surdna Fellowship, Maryland Institute of Arts Baltimore, USA

2003

Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute, CA, USA

2003

Exhibitions

Light, Space, Time, Alisan Fine Arts-New York Gallery

United States of America, 2024

Vibrant Matter, Christian Petersen Art Museum

United States of America, 2022

Detritus, San Jose ICA

United States of America, 2017

SpaceBi: Taking Up Space, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

United States of America, 2012

FAX, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery

United States of America, 2012

Depth of Surface, San Francisco State University Fine Arts Gallery

United States of America, 2010

Present Tense Biennial: Chinese Character, Chinese Cultural Center, San Francisco

United States of America, 2009

Vital Signs, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans

United States of America, 2008

In Pursuit of Beauty, Montserrat College of Art, Beverly,

United States of America, 2008

Close Calls 2008, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito

United States of America, 2008

Cream from the Top, Arts Benicia

United States of America, 2007

4th International Symposium of Interactive Media, Yeditepe University, Istanbul

Turkey, 2006

Unbecoming, Thomas Welton Stanford Art Gallery

United States of America, 2006

Appropriately Yours, Transformer Gallery, Washington DC

United States of America, 2006

Murphy Cadogan Award Winners Exhibition, San Francisco Arts Commission

United States of America, 2004

Cinefemme, BRAVA Theatre Center for Women in the Arts, San Francisco

United States of America, 2002