Carina Chang

Statement

Carina Chang is a first-generation Chinese American painter based in New York. Her parents immigrated from Hong Kong and the Dominican Republic, and she was raised between the USA and Hong Kong.

Her work examines the dysphoria around her cultural identity and self-identity. The figurative paintings surround the vulnerable and complex issues of self-image, exotification, and belonging. Using dreams, relics, and references in history and literature, her paintings seek to question memory to understand generational trauma. She confronts the unreliable narrator and challenges figuration in a Western world by representing her body.

GlogauAIR Project

The project explores the fundamental human need of belonging. By nature, humans are social creatures that need to belong. But today, the implications of loneliness are affecting our overall wellbeing, attributing to an increase in depression, anxiety, and other psychological and physical issues.

The project seeks to find answers for loneliness, and how we can create a sense of belonging within ourselves and within each other by drawing from our experiences. As we only see others on the outside, many of us have internal difficulties that go unrecognized. The project seeks to reflect upon and write the stories of experience, placing it in a larger framework with a beginning, middle, and end to discover the many truths about being human.

CV Summary

Solo and Group Exhibitions

• 2022 – The Deeply Rooted, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
• 2022 – We Couldn’t Be Who We Are, Hanbell Gallery, Washington DC
• 2021 – mono – Mi-Sul, Online
• 2021 – Lost & Found, Vacant Museum, Online
• 2020 – (Im)Possibilities – studio301nyc, New York, NY

Projects

• 2019 – 2020 – Brooklyn Art Library Sketchbook Project, New York, NY
• 2019 – Newark Housing Projects Mural, Newark, NJ

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