Patty Chang
Patty Chang (born February 3, 1972, in San Leandro, California) is an American performance artist and film director living and working in Los Angeles, California. Originally trained as a painter, Chang received her Bachelor of Arts at the University of California, San Diego. It wasn't until she moved to New York that she became involved with performance art.
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Patty Chang
- Name
- Patty Chang
- Born
- 3 February 1972
- Birthplace
- San Leandro, California, U.S.
- Education
- University of California, San Diego
- Occupation
- Performance artist, film director
- Nationality
- United States
- Honours
- Guggenheim Fellowship · Berlin Prize · Anonymous Was A Woman Award · New York Foundation for the Arts
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Patty Chang (born February 3, 1972, in San Leandro, California) is an American performance artist and film director living and working in Los Angeles, California. Originally trained as a painter, Chang received her Bachelor of Arts at the University of California, San Diego. It wasn't until she moved to New York that she became involved with performance art.
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Patty Chang (born 1972) is an American artist, film director and photographer. The artist was born in San Francisco.
Patty Chang studied at University of California, San Diego. The artist worked for Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Works by Patty Chang are held at Hessel Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, among others. The artist received Berlin Prize, Guggenheim Fellowship and New York Foundation for the Arts.
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Biography
Biography
She has staged solo shows nationally and internationally, including at Jack Tilton Gallery, New York (1999), Museo National de Reina Sofia, Madrid (2000), the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the New Museum, New York (all 2005), Flotsam Jetsam with longtime collaborator David Kelley at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2014), the Queens Museum (2017-18), the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (2020), and Pioneer Works in Brooklyn (2021).
Patty Chang studied at University of California, San Diego. Employment is recorded with Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Work by Patty Chang is recorded in the collections of Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Hessel Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art. Distinctions recorded are Guggenheim Fellowship, Berlin Prize, Anonymous Was A Woman Award and New York Foundation for the Arts.
Key facts
Key facts
• Name — Patty Chang • Born — 3 February 1972 • Birthplace — San Leandro, California, U.S. • Education — University of California, San Diego • Occupation — Performance artist, film director
Work
Work
Chang's performative works deal with themes of gender, language and empathy, and she was described as "one of our most consistently exciting young artists" by The New York Times in 2005. Originally trained as a painter, she is primarily known for her short films, videos and performance art. Chang has participated in films as body dubbing which allows studios to remake films with more international casts. Chang often plays a central role in her own work, testing the acceptable boundaries of taste and endurance. Some of her work contains scatological elements, while others critique perceptions of female sexual roles. Chang often denounces the problems that she observes in contemporary society by staging her own body in intensely difficult situations, documenting her actions through video and photography. She began to take a more "behind the scenes" role and became "perhaps the least visible she has ever been in her own work ” in her 2005 exhibition Shangri-La based on the fictional location in James Hilton's 1933 novel Lost Horizon. More recent work, especially "Invocation for The Wandering Lake" (2015–16), draws connections between landscape and the body. Many aspects of Chang's work connect back to her Asian culture such as her interest in Shangri-La as well as her criticism of Asian female stereotypes in her work Contortion (2000). Milk Debt, her solo exhibition at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn drew on collective anxiety and featured a running script, read by women pumping their breast milk in Hong Kong, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, and the US-Mexico border. In addition she has staged solo shows in major cities, including Patty Chang at Jack Tilton Gallery, New York (1999), Ven conmigo, nada contigo. Fuente. Melones. Afeitada. at Museo National de Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (2000), Patty Chang: Shangri-La at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the New Museum, New York (2005), Flotsam Jetsam with longtime collaborator David Kelley at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2014), and her most extensive exhibition to date, Patty Chang: The Wandering Lake, 2009-2017, at the Queens Museum, in New York City (2017-18). Her show The Wandering Lake also showed in Los Angeles. Chang exhibited at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston where she was a part of Read My Lips that was up until May 2020.
Filmography
Filmography
• Title — Release year • Gong Li with the Wind — 1996 • Paradice — 1996 • Melons (At a Loss) — 1998 • Shaved (At A Loss) — 1998 • Fountain — 1999 • Contorsion — 2000 • Losing Ground — 2000 • Hand to Mouth — 2000 • Eels — 2001 • In Love — 2001 • Shangri-La — 2005 • Condensation of Birds — 2006 • Flotsam Jetsam — 2007 • The Product Love – Die Ware Liebe — 2009 • Rather to Potentialities — 2009 • Route 3 — 2011 • Current — 2012 • Invocation for a Wandering Lake, Part 1 — 2014 • Spiritual Myopia — 2015 • Configurations — 2017 • Milk Debt (still) — 2020 • Milk Debt — 2021
Selected exhibitions
Selected exhibitions
• Year — Exhibition — Location • 2005 — Patty Chang — Hammer Museum in Los Angeles • 2006 — The 1st at Moderna: Patty Chang — Moderna Museet • 2008 — New Directors/New FIlms Festival — The Museum of Modern Art • 2014 — Flotsam Jetsam / Patty Chang and David Kelley — The Museum of Modern Art • 2018 — Patty Chang: The Wandering Lake, 2009–2017 — Queens Museum, New York • 2020 — Patty Chang: Ven conmigo, nada contigo. Fuente. Melones. Afeitada — Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía • 2020-2021 — Patty Chang: Milk Debt — 18th Street Arts Center
Identity
Identity
Patty Chang is recorded as having received Guggenheim Fellowship, Berlin Prize and Anonymous Was A Woman Award.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1972
Patty Chang born at San Francisco.
Education, teaching, and awards
Patty Chang received a Bachelor of Arts at the University of California, San Diego in 1994, and studied abroad at L’Accademia Di Belle Arti in Venice, Italy, in 1993. She has held teaching positions at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Skowhegan, Maine, and her work has been recognized by cultural organizations, such as with a 2003 Rockefeller Foundation Award. Chang was a 2008 finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize and a Guna S. Mundheim Fellow in the Visual Arts at the American Academy in Berlin in Germany for fall 2008. In 2012, she received the Creative Capital Award in Visual Arts, and in 2014, she was a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Guggenheim Fellow in Creative Arts—Fine Arts. Also, she received a grant program Anonymous Was A Woman Award (AWAW EAG) in 2018.
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Recognition and collections
Patty Chang received Guggenheim Fellowship, Berlin Prize, Anonymous Was A Woman Award and New York Foundation for the Arts.
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- 1."About." Patty Chang. Accessed March 10, 2018. http://www.pattychang.com/about/
- 2."Collection Online: Patty Chang." Guggenheim online. Accessed March 10, 2018. https://www.guggenheim.org/artwork/artist/Patty-Chang
- 3.The Wandering Lake.
- 4.Fellow: Patty Chang. John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
- 5.ArtAsiaPacific: Patty Chang Receives 2018 Anonymous Was A Woman Grant. media.cdn.artasiapacific.com.
- 6.Cotter, Holland. "Art in Review; Patty Chang." The New York Times (New York, NY), Jul. 29, 2018.
- 7.Oishi, Eve. "Interview with Patty Chang." Camera Obscura, no. 54 (2003): 119+. Academic OneFile, (accessed 10 Mar. 2018). http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A112794440/AONE?u=purchase&sid=AONE&xid=049ad836.
- 8.Chang, Patty. Patty Chang : Shangri-la. Hammer Museum. 2005. 0943739292.
- 9.Wang, Xueli. "Patty Chang." Art in America online. Accessed March 10, 2018. https://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/patty-chang-2/
- 10.Patty Chang: Milk Debt.
- 11."Patty Chang. Ven conmigo, nada contigo. Fuente. Melones. Afeitada." Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia. Accessed March 10, 2018. https://www.museoreinasofia.es/exposiciones/patty-chang-ven-conmigo-nada-contigo-fuente-melones-afeitada
- 12."Patty Chang." Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Accessed March 10, 2018. https://hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/2005/patty-chang/
- 13.Oishi, Eve. "Interview with Patty Chang." Camera Obscura, no.54 (2003): 119+. Academic OneFile, (accessed 10 Mar. 2018). http://link.galegroup.com/apps/doc/A112794440/AONE?u=purchase&sid=AONE&xid=049ad836.
- 14."Flotsam and Jetsam/ Patty Chang and David Kelley." MoMA online. Accessed March 10, 2018. https://www.moma.org/calendar/exhibitions/1432
- 15.Wang, Xueli. "Patty Chang." Art in America online. Last modified March 1, 2018. https://www.artinamericamagazine.com/reviews/patty-chang-2/.
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