Chang received his Master of Fine Arts from the California Institute of the Arts and his bachelor’s from the University of California, Irvine. His solo artwork has been featured in exhibitions at Los Angeles art centers and museums including The Fulcrum, The Suburban, The California Museum of Photography and LAXART. Chang’s work has also been part of group exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Eastman Museum in New York and Transformer Station in Ohio.
Chang has been featured in publications such as Artforum, The New Yorker, the Los Angeles Times, Photography Is Magic and The Photograph as Contemporary Art. His own publications include the 2010 book “Four Over One,” published by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Chang’s Faculty Fellows project is a series of unfixed photographs that will be part of an exhibit at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles in April 2024. These photographs are not set in place in a darkroom like traditional photos but are rather exposed to light and then left unfixed in their frames. This causes the initially legible image to slowly disappear over the course of five hours.
These unfixed photographs are intended to make the viewer think about the nature, permanence and intention of photography. Chang said his work aims to highlight the shortcomings of the medium and challenge viewers with having an emotional response to something that is changing before their very eyes.
“The photographs actively require viewers to initiate this transformation during the exhibition of the work, where their response to a photograph that disappears places them within an ethical set of conditions concerning the viewership of artworks, the desire for photographic permanence and the questions that surround how we consume works of art,” he said.