CHANG YU-CHIA

Chang Yu-Chia was born in 1983, currently pursuing a PhD in Contemporary Visual Culture at Taiwan University of the Arts. The artist was supported by The Ministry of Culture of Taiwan twice with his residency program in CAI, Boston and Anderson Ranch Arts Center in Colorado. He also attended artist-in-residency at STOCK 20, Taichung. Chang’s works have been awarded as Selected Work in the Young Artist Collection by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Art Bank Collection Program by Ministry of Culture of Taiwan, as well as Top Prizes of Next Art in Tainan and Newly Emerging Artists in Taiwan. Chang specializes in transforming all sorts of media into his own distinctive style and characteristics. The artist showcases his keen observation on people, events, and object of everyday life in the form of paintings and installations. He is also a vocalist and guitarist in BIKE, serving as the main songwriter and lyricist of the band. The band launched its first album “Hey! Let me think about it!” in 2013 and was recommended by Spark Chen, the vocalist of GMA-nominated band Quarterback, as well as renowned Taiwanese music critic Yeves Tsai.

His creative process has always been based on his own modeling language and the transformation of various media to express various feelings in life. He hopes to evoke the audience's floating memories and generate empathy through his creations. From the early days of purely flat works, he further developed mechanical devices and sculptures, and later even transformed the media to wood and silk, hoping that through his creations, the audience and the artist can be connected through the works and generate new energy.