YORK CHANG
Born 1973 in St. Louis, MO
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
EDUCATION
1996
Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Los Angeles
2001
Juris Doctorate, University of California, Los Angeles
Post-Graduate Studies, School of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of California, Los Angeles
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2023
Data (beta): the labor of looking, Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA (Two-person show with Tatiana Vahan in collaboration with Agency of Assets)
2019
The Signal and the Noise, Vincent Price Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA To Be Wrong with Infinite Precision, Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, CA
2017
Constituent Parts, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Zero Sum Games, Edel Assanti, London, UK
2015
EXPO Chicago, Greene Exhibitions (solo booth)
2014
Superficciones, Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Syrop & Chang, Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Orange, CA (Two-person show with Mitchell Syrop, in conjunction with OCMA California-Pacific Triennial)
Antagonistics, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, CA
The Winners, Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Second Life, 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
All Dogma Has Its Day, PØST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2009
The Search for the Visceral Realists, Federal Art Project, Los Angeles, CA (artist book)
2008
Automatic Enigmatic, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Corpus Collossum, g727, Los Angeles, CA
2007
American Magic and Dread, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Some Trees, The Floating Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Ben Weissman New Open Letters, The Broodthaers Society of America, New York Language in Times of Miscommunication, Scottsdale Museum of Art, Scottsdale, Arizona
2022 Redact, Rewrite, and Reframe, Art Center College of Design, Los Angeles COLA 2022, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (virtual exhibition)
2021 Contactless Deliveries, Edel Assanti (virtual exhibition series) Fallen Monuments, Epoch Gallery (virtual exhibition)
2020 DYKWTCA: When We First Arrived, The Corner at Whitman-Walker, Washington, D.C., curated by Ruth Noack
2018
Mis (Missing) Information, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Covers, The Bloke, Los Angeles, CA
2017
All the Small Things, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016
SASSAS Bootleg LP Auction, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA
Impressiones de Transfrontera: 25 Years of El Nopal Press, Office of Cultural Projects, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico, curated by Mariana Botey
2015
Drawings | Fridges, Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Palm Capsule, MAK Center, Los Angeles, CA curated by Christian Mayer
NADA NYC, Greene Exhibitions, New York, NY
Miart, Greene Exhibitions, Milan, Italy
2014
Attunement, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Heuristic Memories, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, CA (catalogue)
Itch Scratch Scar, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles, CA (catalog)
Material Object, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Art Los Angeles Contemporary (ALAC), with Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Folding Time Rhymes, Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Intertextual States, PØST Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Ping Pong, Art Basel at Morsbergerstrasse 54, Basel, Switzerland
Incognito, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, California
2011
Suelto, Galleria La Central, Bogotá, Colombia
The Workers, MASSMoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts
Open Daybook, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles, CA (publication)
2010
ARCO Madrid, g727, Madrid, Spain
2009
Here and Now!, ARTRA, Santa Monica, CA
Zoom, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (catalogue)
2008
Asian New Media, Center for Democracy at Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles CA
Hard Left, Merry Karnowsky Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2007
Legally: An Unethical Happening, Hyperion Tavern, Los Angeles, CA
“Dear Jerry Saltz” A Curatorial Action, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
2006
Urban Isolation: York Chang and Yu Ji, Cal State University, Dominguez Hills University Art Gallery, Carson, CA
Summer Survey, Lawrence Asher Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Fresh stART 2006, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
PERFORMANCES
2023 Soup & Tart: Los Angeles, MOCA Los Angeles, June 8, 2023, organized by Sarah Cooper
New Open Letters: A Reading, Broodthaers Society of America, New York, NY
2022 Finding Fluencies, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
2019 Radio Booth Session 3: Out of Thin Air, Orange County Museum of Art Radio Booth Session 2: The Map is the Territory, Orange County Museum of Art Radio Booth Session 1: I Am Sitting In a Feedback Loop (after Alvin Lucier), Orange County Museum of Art
2016
Simon Leung: Actions! Adjuncts! In Real Life Performance Series, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2013
In No One We Trust, in collaboration with Olga Koumoundouros' Dream Home Resource Center, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
AWARDS/RESIDENCIES
2022 Center for Cultural Innovation (CCI) CALI Catalyst Grantee City of Los Angeles (COLA) Master Artist Fellowship
2021 Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM) Thomas Silliman Vanguard Award
2014
California Community Foundation (CCF) Fellowship for Visual Artists, Emerging Artist Grantee
2011
18th Street Art Center Artist Fellowship, Grantee
2009
Creative Capital Foundation, New Genre Artist Grant, Finalist
LECTURES/TALKS
2023
Asian Cultural Council Panel (with Soo Kim, Shirley Tse, and Cathy Clu), Otis College of Art and Design
2022 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Department of Art & Art History, Cal State Bakersfield
2021 Visiting Artist Lecture Series, USC Gould Art Law Society, University of Southern California
2019 KaleidoLA Speaker Series, Loyola Marymount University Artist Talk with Charles Gaines, Vincent Price Art Museum Guest lecturer, Chapman University
2016
Otis Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Otis College of Art and Design, Graduate MFA Program
2014
Guest lecturer, Visual Thinkers Lecture Series: Mitchell Syrop and York Chang, Chapman University
Guest lecturer, University of California at Santa Barbara, School of Art
2011
Guest lecturer/panelist, Public Art, Otis School of Art & Design
2010 Panelist, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA)/Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA) Panel on Interdisciplinary Arts, with Jorge Pardo and Lauren Bon, moderated by MOCA curator Barrett Simpson
Guest lecturer/panelist, Public Art, Otis School of Art & Design
2009
Guest lecturer, Public Art, Art Center College of Design
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2021 Vikram, Anuradhu, “Fallen Monuments at Epoch Gallery,” March International- Journal of Art and Strategy, December 2020. Nys -Dambrot, Shana "Fallen Monuments,” Artillery, September/October 2020 Baca, April “Art Review: Fallen Monuments Offers Mediated Landscapes and Virtual Futures,” L.A. Weekly,
August 17, 2020.
2019 Chang, Richard, “OC Museum Opens Season 2,” Los Angeles Times, April 11, 2019. Barton, Dave, “Smash It Up: Unleashing the Anarchist Within at OCMA,” OC Weekly, May 9, 2019. Zellen, Jody, “Vincent Price Art Museum: York Chang,” Artillery, May 20, 2019.
Nys-Dambrot, Shana, “Meet an Artist Monday: York Chang,” LA Weekly, April 8, 2019.
2017
Mizota, Sharon, "Topsy Turvy- An Artists' Look at Citizenship in a World Turned Upside Down," Los Angeles, Times, April 3, 2017.
Roberts, Cleo, “York Chang: Zero Sum Game” ArtAsiaPacific, January 2017.
2015
Kinney, Tulsa, "The Medium Is the Message." Fellows of Contemporary Art, 2015. Exhibition Catalog.
2014
McDevitt, James, “Heuristic Memories: intimate derivations and other spectres of the archive.” Cerritos College Art Gallery, 2014. Exhibition Catalog.
2013
Senn, Evan. “Dynamic Exchange: The Pacific Rim Triennial.” KCET Art Bound September 13, 2013.
Wagley, Catherine. “Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including Musical Beds.” LA Weekly September 18, 2013.
Barton, Dave. "OCMA's California-Pacific Triennial is Pacific Rim, Minus Giant Robots." OC Weekly August 1, 2013.
Tuck, Geoff. "York Chang 'The Winners' at Greene Exhibitions." Notes on Looking March 21, 2013.
2012
Devis, Juan. "Notorious Possession." Artbound, KCET December 2, 2012.
2011 Tuck, Geoff. "York Chang or Not." Notes on Looking August 13, 2011.
Mizota, Sharon. "Fiction and Truth Collide: York Chang at 18th Street Art Center." Los Angeles Times August 11, 2011
David Earle. "Open Daybook." Published/distributed by Mark Batty/Random House, January 2011.
2010
Ed. Cover Image, ForYourArt, February 4, 2010.
2009
Nys-Dambrot, Shana. “The Search for the Visceral Realists.” Flavorpill November 7, 2009.
Tuck, Geoff. Notes on Looking: Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA) October 8, 2009.
Tuck, Geoff. Notes on Looking: Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA) September 30, 2009.
Herrera-Prat, Carla. “Map and Model Shop- York Chang, Pilar Tompkins, Adrian Rivas.” C_M_L Newsletter, September 29, 2009.
2008
Martens, Anne. “Automatic Enigmatic.” in Automatic Enigmatic. Los Angeles: Lawrence Asher Gallery, 2008.
Exhibition catalog.
Tibbets, Ashley. “Flavorpill Selected Exhibition.” Flavorpill June 2008.
2007
Myers, Holly. “Artistry in Altering Photographs.” Los Angeles Times June 22, 2007.
Frank, Peter. “Art Pick of the Week: ‘Dear Jerry Saltz’.” LA Weekly June 27, 2007.
Nys-Dambrot, Shana. “American Magic & Dread.” Art Limited: West Coast Art & Design February-March 2007.
Tan, Herbert. “The Afterlife of Photography.” American Magic & Dread. Los Angeles: Lawrence Asher Gallery,
2007. Exhibition catalog.
Nys-Dambrot, Shana. “Flavorpill Selected Exhibition.” Flavorpill February 2007.
2006
Ed. “Continuing & Recommended Exhibitions: Urban Isolation.” ArtScene December 2006.