In 2022, she was awarded the ArtTable Fellowship and served as a panelist for The State of LGBTQ in China organized by The China Project. Her recent solo exhibition at the Chinese American Arts Council (CAAC) | Gallery 456 in New York City in 2024 was reviewed in IMPULSE Magazine. Lulu’s work has been featured in several prominent art fairs, including Art Fair | Detroit, Zero Art Fair in upstate New York, and group shows at Latitude Gallery, IRL Gallery, LatchKey Gallery, etc. in New York City. Her video artwork has been screened at The China Project in NYC and at Aotu Space in Beijing. In addition, Her writing includes an essay published in the academic journal World Art and a co-authored article featured in GUERNICA Magazine.
Lulu holds a BA in Art History from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing and an MFA in Fine Arts from the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Born in Japan, I lived there until I was six before moving to China with my family. In both countries, information is manipulated through political narratives crafted to serve state agendas. As I grew older, I began to critically reflect on my childhood experiences which instilled in me a deep sense of vigilance, skepticism, and the importance of critical thinking.
Growing up in China, I encountered an unspoken politics and subtle violence—a suppression of discussions surrounding sex, visibility, and labor. As I reflect on these experiences, my installations, sculptures, and video works aim to challenge the chauvinistic narratives of national identity. They push toward a more inclusive and honest historical record, inspired by the playful and sugared language of children’s toys, making these critical conversations more approachable and accessible as well as reflecting this complex, in-between state I have seen.
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
2025 Inbound Collabrative Studio Residency, Chicago, IL
2022 ArtTable Fellowship, New York, NY
Bibliography
- Cynthia Chen, Reinventing Entanglement: Lulu Luyao Chang’s Little Knots in My Hair, IMPULSE Magazine, December, 2024
- Qingyuan Han, Solo Exhibition “Little Knots In My Hair” by Artist Lulu Luyao Chang on View at Chinese American Arts Council | Gallery 456, The China Press, November 5, 2024
- Ziqi Liu, Lulu Luyao Chang Exhibits Installation Art at Gallery 456, World Journal, November 3, 2024
- Jingran Zhou, Installation Art Exhibition by Chinese Artist Lulu Luyao Chang Opens on 11/1, Sing Tao Daily, November, 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