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Fran Chang

Biography

1990, Poços de Caldas, Brésil

Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil

Fran Chang builds landscapes through painting in which the atmospheric expanse of the horizon contrasts with the dimensions of the canvas. The artist’s works are inspired by inhospitable places, devoid of human figures and vegetation, and depict ethereal and lunar scenarios where steam, water and ice predominate.

The choice of silk as a surface for pictorial creation—a medium that dialogues with her Taiwanese ancestry— reinforces the diaphanous character of her works and reveals the underlying structure, thus establishing a dialog with the tradition of painting.

Chang’s work speaks about the contemporary experience of a relationship with nature mediated by digital images, the intangibility of the natural world, and the ambiguous potential of silence and solitude by depicting scenes of a dissipating world.

Fran Chang has a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts. She also has an academic extension in Astrophysics and Astronautics from the Federal University of Santa Catarina. In 2024, she held Zenith, a solo show at Millan. Her work is part of the collections of the Saint Louis Art Museum, in St. Louis, USA, and the Museu de Arte do Rio, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In 2020, she was a recipient of Itaú Cultural’s Arte como Respiro public award. 

Curriculum vitae

Solo and two-person exhibitions
  • 2025
    One Must Leave the Island in Order to See the Island- Kabinett, Artbasel Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • 2024
    Zenith, Millan , São Paulo, BR
  • 2021
    No mar com as estrelas , Verve , São Paulo, BR
  • 2023
    Expo Chicago, Chicago, US
  • SP-Arte, São Paulo, BR
  • 2022
    Sharp love on a silk chessboard, ZONAMACO, Mexico City, MX
Group exhibitions
  • 2024
    On Ma , Galeria Pedro Cera , Lisbonne , PT
  • ABERTO 3, Casa Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, BR
  • 2023
    Conversas entre Coleções, Casa Roberto Marinho, Rio de Janeiro, BR
  • 2020
    Oferta quente, Verve, São Paulo, BR
  • 45º Salão de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, BR
  • 300 desenhos, Online
  • 2018
    Salão Curitibano de Arte Contemporânea, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Curitiba, Curitiba, BR
  • Scapeland: Território de trânsito livre, Memorial da América Latina, Galeria Marta Traba, São Paulo, BR
  • 2010
    Salão de Arte Contemporânea de Maringá, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Maringà, Maringà, BR
Awards
  • 2020
    Arte como respiro, Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, BR