Jenny Zhe Chang is an award-winning contemporary artist with 35 awards nationally and internationally. Shewas representing Australia to create an installation, "Yum Cha and Milk Tea,” at the "South Wind Rises," Asia-Pacific Contemporary Art Exhibition, Taiwan in 2018. Shewas honored with an artist-in-residence program at the 4th International Ballet Festivalin 2019. Her latest site-specific installation, "Light with Hope –Harmonious," in "Who is Afraid of Public Space?" at ACCA in 2022, achieved a new level of innovation and experimentation in her work. It is significant in cross-cultural contemporary installation art by presenting 278 hand-made lanterns with the word "Harmonious," representing our 278 cultural and ethnic groups' harmonious living in Australia.
To showcase Australian value, she created an installation, "Love! From Head to Toe," staged in Beijing from 2019 to 2022. More than 5000 visitors came to the show in the first two days. Her sculpture, "An exchange With Sol Lewitt," was curated by famous curator Regine Basha and exhibited at Cabinet Gallery, New York, in 2011.
Chang has exhibited in 23 solos and participated in more than 64 group exhibitions locally and internationally. Each of her artwork is original and unique. She spent much time researching, evolving, and using trial-and-error methods. The significance of herartwork is giving viewers a chance to engage with something new in a familiar environment. The greatest effort is how to provide an opportunity for open-mindedness and reflection in our diverse society.
She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the VCA, University of Melbourne, and a Master of Computing from Monash University. Herartworks have been collected privately in Australia, China, Malaysia, New Zealand, the USA, and Taiwan, and in public collections such as the Sidney Myer Foundation, St Vincent Hospital and the University of Melbourne.