About



John Chang is a Shanghai-born, Southern California-based artist whose work explores memory, migration, and identity through layered abstraction and poetic fragments. Drawing from his East/West heritage, Chang creates visual flashbacks of displacement and presence. His work has been exhibited nationally and is held in major public and private collections, including the San Diego Museum of Art and the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.


He holds an MFA in Visual Art from Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University and a BA from the School of Art and Design at the Shanghai Institute of Technology. He also studied with renowned artists Xu Bing and Judith Barry.


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SHOE-JOURNEY





Light, Shadow and Space-Human Portrait



BEYOND INTERPRETAtION



Transition and Nostalgia



UNTITLED



Perception



NOT SO BLACK AND WHITE



I was born in Shanghai, shaped by two systems: one of collective control, the other of consumer freedom. Neither fully mine. Between them, I found my path. Calligraphy, once a tool of obedience, now becomes a site of resistance. Every stroke carries memory—of repetition, of rebellion, of sacred force. In shu, the written word can shift the world. I reclaim that belief. I collect the detritus of now—newspapers, ad scraps, printed fragments—cutting, categorizing, collaging. Words and images collide. Meaning is undone and remade. My brushes echo Kline’s urgency, Rauschenberg’s layering, but the characters are mine—abstracted, ancestral, alive. Black and white hold balance, yin and yang. Red and yellow pulse with joy, luck, power. These pigments, like language, carry history in every grain. I call myself a spiritual escapist—one who embraces ran, the fertile chaos between remembrance and reinvention. In the space between systems, I paint a future that does not yet have a name.

-John Chang


Get in touch with John Chang

Fresh Paint Art 4624 W. Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90016 info@freshpaintart.com www.freshpaintart.com