Frank Chang's work explores the boundaries between reality and construction, history and fantasy. Using sculptures, drawings, text, and photos, he presents a way of looking in which meaning is fluid, and contradiction and multiplicity are devices for understanding. Recent work has explored the relationships between land, property, and nature in American history and its influence on ideology and politics today. His work has been exhibited at Sea & Space Explorations, Torrance Art Museum, Glendale College Art Gallery, LA Design Center, Armory Northwest (Los Angeles), Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond), and TCB art inc. (Melbourne). He received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and BA from Dartmouth College.
Frank currently lives and works in Los Angeles, where he is the Fabrication and Electronics Lab Supervisor in the Design|Media Arts department at UCLA. He is also a co-director of Monte Vista, an artist-run space that hosts exhibitions, performances, discussions, and more.
Frank Chang
Born in New York 1979
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Education
- 2007
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- Institut d'Etudes Françaises pour Etudiants Etrangers, Aix-en-Provence, France
- 2005
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- MFA, Art, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
- 2001
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- BA, Studio Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Solo Exhibitions
- 2008
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- Amazon River Transplant, Sea & Space Explorations, Los Angeles
- Mountaintop Reconstruction, UCLA D|MA Gallery, Los Angeles
- 2005
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- Out of the Dust, Lime Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
- 2004
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- First Year Works, Gallery A402, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
Group Exhibitions
- 2010
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- Home & Garden at the Museum of Jurassic Technology, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Los Angeles
- An American Historical Fantasy, Moorpark College Art Gallery, Moorpark, CA
- 12 GAUGE, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
- 2009
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- Home & Garden, ViralNet.net (online)
- Let the Trees Decide, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
- Sustainability, Woodbury Hollywood Exhibitions, Los Angeles
- 2007
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- The Pyramid Show, Monte Vista, Los Angeles (co-curator)
- 2006
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- One for the “Other”, TCB art inc., Melbourne, Australia
- The Newsstand Project, various locations in Los Angeles (curated by Dan Bayles)
- 2005
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- Supersonic: L.A. Design Center, L.A. Design Center, Los Angeles
- Shipping & Receiving, The Armory Northwest/965, Pasadena, CA
- Sweet Substitute, FAB Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond
- 2004
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- Middle Residency, Mint Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
- 2001
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- Senior Majors Exhibition, Jaffe-Friede Gallery, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Participatory Events
- 2010
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- Psychic Juice Bar, Torrance Museum of Art, Torrance, CA
- 2009
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- Amazon–Mojave Collaborative Site Investigation (CSI), Center for Integrated Media, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
- 2008
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- Juice Barter at Sea & Space Resort, Sea & Space Explorations, Los Angeles
Professional and Academic Experience
- 2007–present
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- Fabrication and Electronics Lab Supervisor, Design|Media Arts department, UCLA
- Co-director, Monte Vista, Los Angeles
- 2005
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- Teaching Assistant, Metal Fabrication practicum, California Institute of the Arts
- 2004–2005
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- Teaching Assistant, Sculpture, California State Summer School for the Arts/Innerspark
- Teaching Assistant, Expansive Fields course, California Institute of the Arts
Awards and Honors
- 2005
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- California Institute of the Arts Scholarship
- 2004
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- Ahmanson Foundation Grant
- 2001
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- Adelbert Ames Fine Arts Award
- Paul K. Richter and Evalyn E. Cook Richter Memorial Fund
- Dartmouth College Class of 1960 Purchase Award