Chien-Chi Chang

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Chien-Chi Chang 張乾琦

Born: 1961, Taichung, Taiwan. A member of Magnum Photos.

Art

In his work, Chien-Chi Chang makes manifest the abstract concepts of alienation and connection. “The Chain,” a collection of portraits made in a mental asylum in Taiwan, caused a sensation when it was shown at La Biennale di Venezia (2001) and the Bienal de Sao Paolo (2002). The shocking, nearly life-sized photographs of pairs of patients literally chained together resonate with Chang’s jaundiced look at the less visible bonds of marriage. He has treated marital ties in two books—I do I do I do (2001), a collection of images depicting alienated grooms and brides in Taiwan, and in Double Happiness (2005), a brutal depiction of the business of selling brides in Vietnam. The ties of family and of culture are also the themes of an ambitious project begun in 1992. For 21 years, Chang has photographed and videoed the bifurcated lives of Chinese immigrants in New York’s Chinatown, along with those of their wives and families back home in Fujian. Still a work in progress, “China Town” was hung at the National Museum of Singapore in 2008 as part of a mid-career survey and at La Biennale di Venezia (2011) as well as at International Center of Photography, New York (2012). Chang’s investigation of the ties that bind one person to another draws on his own deeply divided immigrant experience in the United States.

Chang received an M.S. from Indiana University, Bloomington and an B. A. from Soochow University, Taipei. He joined Magnum Photos in 1995 and was elected as a full member in 2001. He lives in Taichung, Taiwan and Graz, Austria.

Awards

2003 First Place, Best of Photography Book (The Chain) POYi, USA

1999 W. Eugene Smith Memorial Fund for Humanistic Photography, New York

1998 Magazine Photographer of the Year, NPPA, USA

1998 Visa d’Or, Visa Pour L’image, Perpignan

1998 First Place, Daily Life, World Press Photo, Amsterdam

Books and Selected Monographs

Chang, Chien-Chi (2008) Doubleness: photography of Chang Chien-Chi. Singapore: Editions Didier Millet and National Museum of Singapore. ISBN 978-981-05-9658-3

Chang, Chien-Chi (2008) Les Grands Photographe de Magnum Photos: Chien-Chi Chang, Hachette, Paris

Chang, Chien-Chi (2008) I Grandi Fotografi: Magnum Photos: Chien-Chi Chang, Hachette Fascioli, Milan

Chang, Chien-Chi; Dowling, Claudia Glenn (2005) Double Happiness, Aperture, New York. ISBN 1-931788-56-1

Chang, Chien-Chi; Lai, Cheryl (2002) The chain, Trolley, London. ISBN 0-9542079-5-5

Chang, Chien-Chi (2001) I do I do I do, Premier Foundation, Taipei. ISBN 957-97817-2-9

Chang, Chien-Chi (2001) The Chain, Photographs by Chien-Chi Chang, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei

Video

2013 AccessRH, Philippines

2011 China Town II

2011 Bongo Fever

2011 Burmese Days

2009 Escape from North Korea

2008 China Town I

2007 Empty Orchestra

Selected Exhibitions

2013 Museum of National Taipei University of Education, Taipei

2013 Museum of Contemporary Arts, Taipei

2012 International Center of Photography, New York City

2012 Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei

2012 The Cube Project Space, Taipei

2011 Museum der Kulturen, Basel

2009 Venice Biennial, Venice

2009 National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung

2008 National Museum of Singapore, Singapore

2006 Columbus Museum of Arts, Columbus, Ohio

2004 Ffotogallery, Cardiff

2004 Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona Beach, Florida

2002 Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo

2001 Venice Biennial, Venice

2001 Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

1999 The Alternative Museum, New York City

Selected Sound Installations

2013 Postcards from North Korea

2010 Many Voices of Immigrants, New York and Fuzhou, China

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