Portrait of Kaï-Chun Chang © Photo : Guido Borso
kaï-chun
chang
Born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1989, he lives and works in Paris after studying at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Kai-Chun Chang's artistic focus lies primarily in painting, yet extends to include monotype, collage, photography, and sculpture. His initial training in traditional Chinese ink painting led him to explore the relationship between volatile phenomena and state of mind. He reveals the fragility of human existence through the representation of light. Between the smooth surface of the canvas and the pictorial depth, the transparent layers of acrylic paint bring forth spiritual spaces and landscapes.
Chang's paintings are both an impression and an illusion that invite contemplation in hazy indistinctness. The fragments of iridescent light and the chromatic fields inhabit minds in an unrealizable utopia.
In 2023, Kai-Chun Chang was selected for the 73rd edition of the Jeune Création Prize. He was also among the finalists of the International Painting Prize of Vitry-sur-Seine in 2018. His works have entered public collections in France, China, and Taiwan, as well as significant private collections in France, Italy, Switzerland and elsewhere. His last solo exhibition, D’air à Terre, took place at the Gallery Romero Paprocki in Paris in October 2024.
Morning Mist, 2024
oil and acrylic on canvas
100 x 90 cm
Ces lumières lointaines se répètent n.37
2025
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 145 cm
Ces lumières lointaines se répètent n.38
2025
Acrylic on canvas
200 x 140 cm
Dots no.11, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
55 x 46 cm
Dots no.13, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
60 x 50 cm
View of the exhibition "D'air à terre", Galerie Romero Paprocki Paris, 2024
© Photo : Allison Borgo
Ces lumières lointaines se répètent n.33 (dyptique)
2024
Acrylic on canvas
130 x 194 cm
Graine, 2025
Acrylic on canvas
41 x 31,5 cm
awards
2024
Acquisition Prize Collezione Scarzella
2023
73e Jeune Création
2018
Prix international de peinture de Vitry sur Seine
artists residencies
2020
June - August / La Baule, France, Musée Bernard Boesch
February - May / Saint-Rémy de Provence, France, La cour des arts
2019
January - March / Dinan, France, Ateliers du Plessix-Madeuc
public collections
2023
Lukowa Foundation, Lucerne, Switzerland
2021
Taïwan Fine Art Foundation, Taiwan
2020
Musée Bernard Boesch, Le Pouliguen, France
2016
Museum Of Contemporary Art of Yinchuan, China
education
2017
Beaux-Arts de Paris (Atelier James Rielly / Atlier Eric Poitevin)
Diplôme National Supérieur d'Art Plastique (DNSAP)
2014
École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges Diplôme National Supérieur
d'Expression Plastique (DNSEP avec félicitation du jury)
2012
National Taipei University of the Arts
solo exhibitions
2024
D’Air à Terre, Romero Paprocki, Paris
2023
Neither Storm nor Sunshine, Yiri Art, Taipei
2022
Eclipse of the room, Poush Manifesto, Paris
2020
Light on the Edge, Musée Bernard Boesch, Le Pouligeun, France
Slide Marker, L'AMAP Saint-Malo, Saint-Malo
2018
What Left in the Meanwhile, Galerie l'Inlassable, Paris
2017
My Mirror Your Window, Beaux-arts de Paris (DNSAP)
2016
Images of Lost Profiles, Galerie Paris Horizon, Paris
collective exhibitions
2024
ECCPROJECTS # Kai-Chun Chang, ECC, Turin
Night Stroll, Galerie Elsa Meunier - Mathilde Le Coz, Paris
Mountain Friends, Fred&Ferry Gallery, Antwerps, Belgique
2023
73e Festival Jeune Création, Espace Niemeyer, Paris
Dear Stranger, Kunstverein Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Absent de Paris, Cité Internationale des Arts, Annexe, Paris
Yellow Nap, Romero Paprocki, Paris
Streched Filament, Pal Project, Paris
2022
Hot Paper, Galerie l'inlassable, Paris
2021
Artistes in residany, Atelier Plessix-Madeux, Saint-Jacut-de-la-mer
Galerie l’inlassable 2011-2021, Galerie Monteverita, Paris
2020
A Pale View of Hills, Yiri Art, Taipei
2019
Fugue, Abbaye de Léhon, Dinan
On View, Galerie Vitrine 65, Paris
2018
November at Vitry, Galerie municipale
Identity, Galerie L'inlassable, Paris
2016
The Night of Museum, Musée de la chasse et de la nature, Paris
2014
Palèmètrèbo #4, Palais Jacque Coeur, Bourges
2013
D’abord les forêts Opus 4, La Maison Laurentine, Aube
