About
Tzu-Ching Chang
Chang allows her unconscious mind to lead her hand, leaving the controlled and uncontrolled, predicted and unpredicted traces of brushstrokes to dance harmoniously on canvas.
Medium | Acrylic |
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Location | Taiwan |
Date of birth | 1988 |
My personal creative technique involves loading paint into paint bags and painting in a manner similar to a pastry chef piping cream. The rhythm of my hand's movements drives my painting process, emphasizing the unpredictable power of subconscious instinctual painting. I juxtapose control and unpredictability during the painting process, placing expected and unexpected results on the canvas. I refrain from using textual explanations to limit the viewer's subjective consciousness of the artwork's imagery.
My personal creative context revolves around experimental research with acrylic paint as the base medium. Initially, I experimented by orderly squeezing paint from bags onto the canvas. Subsequently, I broke away from traditional forms, allowing paints to naturally blend through squeezing, and finally, I reversed the original creative logic to present the artwork on canvas.
Using acrylic paint as a medium for personal creation stems from the belief that every creator must find materials that represent them and understand their characteristics to leverage their unique qualities. Growing up in a small family within an environment dominated by rapid economic development and extensive industrial exports, my daily surroundings were defined by the rhythmic operation of machines in factories and the manual assembly and packaging of products by workers. In such an environment, efficiency in producing quality goods was paramount. Plastic products were among the most mass-produced items in factories.
Similar to writing poetry, the act of creation involves using rhythm to create an atmosphere, immersing viewers in it. I see painting as a way to express overflowing love onto the canvas, where the artwork acts as a mirror reflecting a part of myself, a gift to loved ones, allowing them to feel the love I wish to express without words.
From the inception, the 259 days of gestation, to giving birth to a creation uniquely mine through my own body, I persisted in creating despite the pain and hardship of pregnancy. For me, "creation is an everyday part of life." Drawing serves as a remedy, separating the troubled mind and painful body from the realities of life. Embracing unpredictability in expected ways yields unforeseen results, offering freshness in the creative process and accumulating painting experience. I believe creation is akin to nurturing an emotional bond with your artwork, akin to maintaining a relationship, bringing surprise and freshness to calm days.
Curriculum vitae
TZU-CHING CHANG
1988, born in Taiwan
2013 Department of Fine Arts, Tunghai University, Taiwan
2018 Department of Art, National Changhua University of Education, Taiwan
Professional Career
2017 CMP Creative Lab,Taichung,Taiwan
2016 CMP Creative Lab,Taichung,Taiwan
Solo Exhibition
2021 《Decade》,isart gallry,Taipei/Kaohsiung,Taiwan
2020 《A record in the journey》,National Taichung Theater,VVG x isart gallery,Taichung,Taiwan
2018 《little journey》,isart gallry,Kaohsiung,Taiwan
2018 《Ching Chang solo Exhibition》,isart gallery(ART EXPO),USA
2017 《Embodied Poems》,Kuanart space,Taichung ,Taiwan
2017 《Lake water》,isart gallery,Kaohsiung,Taiwan
2017 《Exuberant》,Rhythm gallery,Taipei,Taiwan
2016 《Seven Asteroids》,Golden department store,Taichung,Taiwan
2016 《259 Sprouting》, Yong Chun Tang Art Museum, Taichung,Taiwan
2014 《Midway》, King Bao Long Gallery, Taipei,Taiwan
2014 《Poetry》, Yong Chun Tang Art Museum, Taichung,Taiwan
2014 《Twist Flower》, Next Art Tainan 2014: Articipation & Nextension, The Former Old Tainan Magistrate Residence, Tainan,Taiwan
2013 《Lab》, Black and White, Taichung,Taiwan
2013 《Eddy》, King Bao Long Gallery, Taipei,Taiwan
2013 《Starting Point》, ALLO Friend Exhibition, Taichung,Taiwan
Group Show
2022 《Hsiao Chin Creation Award 》,Hsiao Chin art foundation,Kaohsiung,Taiwan
2022 《Perception of Properties》,Seoho Museum of Art ,Korea
2020《Visible Secrets》,Art bank,Taichung, Taiwan
2020《2020the gift》,Korea
2019 《Kid Flavors》,Hsinchu 241 art gallery,Hsinchu,Taiwan
2018 《Young Voices》,Taivhung City Government,Taichung,Taiwan
2018 《Dazzing‧Blossoming》,sinyi gallry,Taichung,Taiwan
2018 《Primary color》,isart gallry,Taichung,Taiwan
2017 《Sublimation of Bounds》,Rhythm gallery,Taipei
2017 《Daily life》,B LAB,Taichung,Taiwan
2016 《Birds' twitter and fragrance of flowers》,Dayeh University Gallery,Changhua, Taiwan
2016 《The meory story》,Great Seal Art,Taichung, Taiwan
2016 《Intimate Transgression》,National Chiang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall,Taipei
2016 《2016Green Ripples Festival-Misty》,Golden department store,Taichung
2016 《Everyday Art》, The Jen Library, Taipei
2016 《Flower of Prosperity》, Aura Gallery , Changhua
2015 《Everyday Art》, Park Lane by CMP, Taichung
2015 《XI‧XI an expedition of media usage》, Dynasty Gallery, Taipei
2015 《Move Mountain》, Joint Exhibition of National Changhua University of Education and National Hsinchu University of Education, NHCUE Art Space, Hsinchu
2014 《Suspended Particles》, Art Site of Chiayi Railway Warehouse, Chiayi
2014 《Everyday Art》, Park Lane by CMP, Taichung
2014 《Newly Lacquered Blender: 2014 Exchange Exhibition for Works of Cross-strait Young Artists》, NCUE Baisha Art Center, Changhua
2014 《Complicated Imagery》, Yong Chun Tang Art Museum, Taichung
2014 《Deep May》, Foundation of Taiwan Culture, Taichung
2014 《Arts Habitat》, YU-HSIU MUSEUM of ART, Nantou
2013 《Meet the Art in Warm Winter》, Luminance Art Space, Taichung
2013 《After》, NCUE E-HUAY Hall, Changhua
2013 《Portfolio exhibition》, NCUE Baisha Art Center, Changhua
2013 《Urge for going group exhibition》, Z SPACE, Taichung
2013 《Sweet Tooth》, Joint Exhibition, MSTea Café, Taichung
2013 《Tunghai University of Fine Arts Exhibition》, Taichung City Seaport Art Center, Taichung
ART Show
2023《Art Festa》jeju, Korea
2022《Affordable art fair》,Singapore,Singapore
2022《Kiaf Seoul 2022》,Seoul,Korea
2022《Affordable art fair》,Hong Kong,China
2021 BAMA in GRAND JOSUN, Busan, Korea
2021 Seoul art show, Coex, Seoul , Korea
2021 Busan Annual Market of Art 2021,isart gallery,Korea
2019 Art 021,isart gallery,Shanghai,China
2019 Art Asia,isart gallery,Korea
2019 Citizen Art Shanghai,isart gallery,Shanghai,China
2019 Affordable Art Fair,Pocket fine arts,Hong Kong
2019 ONE ART TAIPEI,Great Seal Art,Taipei, Taiwan
2018 ART KAOHSIUNG,isart gallery,Kaohsiung,Taiwan
2018 Affordable Art Fair,Pocket fine arts,Singapore
2018 Formosa Art Show,isart gallery,Taipei, Taiwan
2017 Art Hsinchu International Art Fair,Rhythm Gallery, Hsinchu,Taiwan
2017 Shenzhen International Art Fair,Rhythm Gallery,China
2017 Art Taichung,Millennium Hotel Taichung,Kuanart space,Taichung, Taiwan
2016 Art&Creative EXPO TAIWAN,Taichung Software Park,Taichung, Taiwan
2016 Art Taichung,Millennium Hotel Taichung,Taichung, Taiwan
2016 Formosa Art Show,Humble House Taipei,Taipei, Taiwan
2015 YOUNG ART TAIPEI, Dynasty Gallery, Sheraton Grand Taipei Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan
2015 Asia Hotel Art Fair, Imavision Gallery, Hong Kong
2014 Chengdu Citizen Art Festival, Imavision Gallery, Shanghai, China
2014 Shanghai Citizen Art Festival, Imavision Gallery, Shanghai, China
2014 YOUNG ART TAIPEI, Quan Art, Regent Taipei Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan
2013 ART KAOHSIUNG, Quan Art, Chateau de Chine, Kaohsiung
2013 YOUNG ART TAIPEI, Quan Art, Sheraton Grand Taipei Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan
Collection
2019 Fong Yi Art Gallery
2018 Ruiyu Construction、U-Town Construction、Cmaan Confinement Center、Orthojason dentist clinic
2017 Cmaan Confinement Center,Cmaan clinic、CMP Construction
2015 Art Bank Collection Program, The Ministry of Culture
2014 Art Bank Collection Program, The Ministry of Culture
2013 Art Bank Collection Program, The Ministry of Culture
Award