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ABOUT / CV

Suyeon Rosa Chang (장수연) is a multidisciplinary artist who utilizes installation, performance, and machine-learning computation to explore nostalgia, displacement, and intrafamilial dynamics. As the only remaining immigrant to the United States in her family, her research focuses on the diverging Korean and Western social landscapes and how they escalate emotional reactions of anxiety, aggression, and polarized media reactions. She explores how material reactions are, at their core, automated performances—whether expressed through decomposing paintings or kinetic sculptures. In her latest works, Chang employs machine-learning neural networks to code installations that possess the ability to 'perform' independently of her physical presence.

Chang earned her BA in Computer Science and Fine Arts at Yale University and currently holds the position of Studio Arts Fellow at Trinity College. She has exhibited internationally, including Hongik Arts Center, Montclair Art Museum, Bincan Gallery, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, TRAART Gallery, Loft121 Gallery, The Graduate Hotel, and the Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh.

EDUCATION

2023 B.A. Computing and the Arts, Yale University, New Haven, USA
2021 Computer Graphics and Digital Media, SBS Computer Art Academy, Seoul, Korea

2019 Oil Painting and Art History, Studio Arts College International, Florence, Italy

RECENT EXHIBITIONS

2024

Crowing Hour, Solo Exhibition, Poon Gallery, Hartford, CT

Newly Available, Group Exhibition, Bowery 174 Gallery, New York, NY

Unyielding Sonder, Juried Exhibition (Invited Artist), We are the Arts, Fayetteville, NC

 

2023

UNDER100, Juried Exhibition, The Hyundai Open Studio, Daegu, Korea

Dimly At First, Group Exhibition, Loft 121 Gallery, New York, USA

A Table for Fourteen, Group Exhibition, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, USA

Is there any way to not lose access at all, Group Exhibition, Yale School of Art,

New Haven, USA

Canyon Alley Art Bazaar, Group Exhibition, Smoke the Moon Gallery, Santa Fe, USA

2022

외 [ ] in, Invitational Solo Exhibition, TRAART Gallery, Seoul, Korea

SCREENED, Group Exhibition, Yale School of Art, New Haven, USA

YCDO Annual Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Yale College Dean’s Office,

New Haven, USA

Adjacencies, Group Exhibition, Children’s Museum of Pittsburg, Pittsburg, USA

2021

The Spider Web Between Telephone Wires, Choyeon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Gya-Woo-Ddoong Duo Exhibition, Bincan Hapjeong, Seoul, Korea

International Modern Art Contest Exhibition , Hongik Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2020

Historical Trauma STAND, Maya’s Room Gallery, New Haven, USA

STP BFA Show, https://stp.world/ (Online Exhibition), USA

2019

Remember This Moment, The Graduate Hotel, New Haven, USA

Nostalgia, Sterling Memorial Library, New Haven, USA

2018

Blackwell St. Art Student Invitational, Atrium Gallery, Morristown, USA

Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Monclair Museum, Montclair, USA

2017

Fresh Perspectives, Morris Museum, Morristown, USA

AWARDS/HONORS

2023

Trinity College Post-Baccalaureate Studio Arts Fellowship, Trinity College, Hartford, USA

Professional Development Award, Anderson Ranch Arts Center, Aspen, USA

Mellon Forum Research Grant, Commonplace Society, New Haven, USA

 

2022

Shana Alexander Research Fellowship in Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies,

Shana Alexander Foundation, New York, USA

Council on East Asian Studies Research Grant, Yale CEAS, New Haven, USA

Robin Berlin Fellowship, Berkeley Head of College, New Haven, USA

Richter Summer Fellowship, Max and Reba E. Richter Scholarship Fund, New Haven, USA

2021

Bronze Medal, Korea Paintings & Calligraphic Association, Seoul, Korea
Creative and Performing Arts Award, The Yale Council of Heads of College, New Haven, USA

2020

Alexander P. Hixon Fellowship, Yale CIPE, New Haven, USA


2019

International Summer Award, Studio Arts College International, Florence, Italy

2018

Gold Key and two Honorable Mentions, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Montclair, USA Best In Show, Mount Olive Invitational Show, Flanders, USA

Scholarship Grant, Savannah College of Art and Design, Flanders, USA

2017

National Silver Medal, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, New York, USA
Gold Key and four Honorable Mentions, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards, Montclair, USA Best in Show and First Place, Morris County Teen Arts Festival, Randolph, USA
Second Place, Blackwell St. Art Student Invitational, Morristown, USA

FEATURED PUBLICATIONS

VICE i-D

Tiffany Ng, “For Art Students Around the World, Remote Learning Leads to Self-Discovery,” i-D VICE, January 26, 2021, https://bit.ly/3mEqRTh

HUG Magazine

HUG 100 Artists to Watch, Jury awardees book, HUG, April 1, 2024

41st International Modern Art Competition, Jury awardees book, Korea Paintings and Calligraphic Association, March 23, 2021

The Yale Record

Front and Back Cover Illustration for Eight Issues, December 2018 - August 2020, http://yalerecord.org/category/print-issues/

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