Location: San Francisco, CA
Medium: Painting, printmaking, public art, mural
Website: juliewchang.com
Julie W. Chang was born and lives and works in San Francisco. She received a BA in Sociology from Tufts University and a BFA in Painting and Printmaking from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1999, followed by an MFA from Stanford University in 2007. She is represented by Hosfelt Gallery in San Francisco and Alisan Fine Arts in Hong Kong and New York. She has been awarded the Murphy Cadogan Award (2004) and the Headlands Center for the Arts MFA Studio Award (2007), and was a 2010 Artist in Residence at the de Young Museum through Kearny Street Workshop. Her public commissions include the terrazzo floor of the Grand Hall of Salesforce Transit Center in San Francisco (2018), designed alongside James Carpenter, Tim Hawkinson, Jenny Holzer, and Ned Kahn — a distinction among only five artists chosen by the San Francisco Arts Commission and the Transbay Transit Authority.
Chang works in painting, printmaking, and large-scale public art, using a visual syntax drawn from diverse and sometimes oppositional sources: African mudcloth, Japanese shibori, Native American basket weavings, Chinese calligraphy, Sanskrit script, heraldic patterns, and genetic mutation diagrams. Through these multilayered systems of mark-making, she investigates how identities are constructed and how misunderstandings of both self and other might be resisted and reimagined. Her paintings use ancient and contemporary cultural symbols to make visible hidden histories and illustrate the cultural hybridity inherent in a globalized world. Her public works apply the same visual intelligence to architectural scale — from a terrazzo floor to a vinyl mural in a museum café to a mosaic tile mural on the Willard Clubhouse in Berkeley.
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