BioStatement Lulu Luyao Chang (b.1996, Hyogo, Japan) is a multidisciplinary artist in Chicago and New York, working in installation, sculpture, and video, exploring social norms and repressions. She holds a BA in Art History from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and an MFA from School of Visual Arts in New York. She received ArtTable Fellowship in 2022 and she is one of the panelists of The State of LGBTQ of China organized by The China Project. She had her solo show at Chinese American Arts Council | Gallery 456 in NYC. Her work is also shown at Art Fair | Detroit in Detroit, Zero Art Fair in upstate NY, and Latitude Gallery, IRL Gallery, LatchKey Gallery, in NYC, etc. Her video screened at The China Project in NYC and Aotu Space in Beijing. Her essay published on academic journal World Art and her co-authored article is published on GUERNICA. 
I grew up in a world that was presented as a utopia but is really a dystopia. My work aims to portray the nuanced realities we inhabit, from China's political landscape, to the plight of sexual minorities and women worldwide, to experiences of censorship and repression in my everyday life. 

I was born in Japan and lived there until I was 6 years old, then moved to China with my family. In both countries, there is pervasive manipulation of information through political narratives that are crafted to serve the state’s purposes. My childhood instilled in me the necessity of vigilance, skepticism, and critical thinking. Growing up in China, I struggled to overcome a politics of the unsaid, whether social norms or outright repression of issues surrounding sex, visibility, and labor. As an artist, my installations, sculptures, and video works aim to counter the blaring, chauvinist rhetoric of national becoming and to work towards a more inclusive historical archive.  



CV

Educations
2024 MFA, Fine Arts, School of Visual Arts (SVA)
2022 MFA, Photography, Video and Related Media, School of Visual Arts (SVA)
2019  B.A., Art History, Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA)

Solo  Exhibition
2024  Little Knots in My Hair, Chinese American Arts Council (CAAC) | Gallery 456, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions
2024  L@Staff Show: Anchored, Latitude Gallery, New York, NY
            Non-sovereign poetics, SVA Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
            Chrysalis, SVA Flatiron Gallery, New York, NY
            New Born, A Space, Brooklyn, NY

2023  Expanding the Panopticon, LatchKey Gallery, New York, NY
            The Chain, 链 (Liàn), Accent Sisters, Jersey city, NJ
            Ripple (lián 涟), A Space & :iidrr Gallery, New York, NY
            Fritto Misto, IRL Gallery, New York, NY
            Sympoietic Encounters; Making with in the Sixth Great Extinction, SVA Gramercy Gallery, New York, NY
            Winter Salon Pin-up:, :iidrr Gallery, New York, NY

2022  The Patriot, O’Flaherty’s, New York, NY
            BXQ 2022 Experimental Images Week, Aotu Space, Beijing, China

Art Fairs
2024  Art Fair | Detroit, Detroit, MI
            Zero Art Fair, Elizaville, NY

Screenings
2023  The State of LGBTQ of China, The China Project, New York, NY
2022  BXQ 2022 Experimental Images Week, Aotu Space, Beijing, China

Residency
2022  ArtTable Fellowship

Bibliography
- Cynthia Chen, Reinventing Entanglement: Lulu Luyao Chang’s Little Knots in My Hair, IMPULSE Magazine, December, 2024
- Editorial team, Navigating Dual Realities Through Art, Identity, and Political Memory, Chicago and New York-based Artist Lulu Luyao Chang, Li Tang Community, October, 2024
- Editorial team, Rising Star: Meet Luyao Chang, CanvasRebel Magazine, October, 2024
- Editorial team, Meet Luyao Chang, Bold Journey, July, 2024
- Editorial team, Meet Luyao Chang, CanvasRebel Magazine, March, 2024
- Editorial team, Utopia/Dystopia, Visual Opinion Volume 28 Issue 3, May, 2022

Other Professional Activities
Public Speak
2023  The State of LGBTQ of China, The China Project, New York, NY
Writing
- (Co-author) Luo Fuxing: “The Last of the Shamate”-- The strange afterlife of China’s largest working-class subculture, GUERNICA, June, 2021
- Obsessiveness- Infinity: On Yayoi Kusama’s ‘Sex Obsession’ Series, World Art, January, 2020