Grace Chang (b. 1999) is a multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BFA in Printmaking with a concentration in Gender, Sexuality, and Race from RISD in 2021. 

Chang’s work plays with visual hierarchies by flattening and distorting figures and objects. Visual cues invoke a feeling of artifice and suggest they are more like actors and props inhabiting roles in a play, rather than literal representations. While absurdity or formal qualities such as harsh lighting might elicit an immediate (even familiar) response, the work also rewards a slow viewer with more obscured, unclear ties between the elements in each image. These reveal the initial collaging process that recontexualizes objects onto stage-like planes: folds of a plastic sheet act as a sky or backdrop in one painting, while spindles of a courting chair transform into large columns in another. The logic of depth in each piece is fickle and uncanny; it prompts viewers to bridge the gaps and imagine what kind of reality might allow some of these spaces to exist. 

Chang’s work has been exhibited in person and online with Latitude Gallery and Deanna Evans Projects in New York.