Contemporary Artist
Cheng Chang
Contemporary Artist
Born 2002 · Ningbo, China
Through painting, Cheng Chang creates ambiguous life forms that move between plants, bodies, and imagined biological structures.
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About the Artist
Cheng Chang is a contemporary artist born in Ningbo, China, in 2002. His practice centers on painting and the exploration of organic forms that exist between the natural world and the human body.
Working primarily with acrylic on canvas, Chang constructs vivid, layered compositions in which plants, tissue, skin, flowers, and internal organs seem to merge into unfamiliar living structures. Rather than depicting clearly identifiable species or figures, he allows these forms to remain intentionally unresolved.
His paintings often move between abstraction and figuration, creating a visual language shaped by growth, mutation, entanglement, and transformation. Through this ambiguity, Chang examines how the body and the natural world can be understood not as separate systems, but as interconnected forms of life.
His recent work continues to explore these biological and psychological tensions through saturated color, fluid structures, and densely layered surfaces.
Born
2002 · Ningbo, China
Education
Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Medium
Acrylic on canvas
Current Focus
Painting, organic forms, and biological imagination
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Selected Exhibitions
2026
MoAE Rooftop Art Project #8 — MoAE@Ningbo
Group Exhibition
MoAE · Huamao Museum of Art Education, Ningbo, China
2025
Lingering Presence
Group Exhibition
BONIAN SPACE, Beijing, China
2025
Chelsea College of Arts Degree Show
Degree Show
Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, London, UK
2024
ADEMA Show
Group Exhibition
Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2024
The Departure Lounge
Group Exhibition
Cookhouse Gallery, Chelsea College of Arts, London, UK
2023
Degree Show
Group Exhibition
SAIC Galleries, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
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Creative Practice
Cheng Chang’s practice begins with the unstable relationship between organic life and bodily perception. His paintings frequently contain forms that recall roots, petals, skin, tissue, cells, or internal organs, yet these references gradually lose their recognizable identities as the composition develops.
Rather than defining a specific organism, Chang creates hybrid structures that appear to grow, mutate, fold, and intertwine. These forms move continuously between abstraction and figuration, allowing the viewer to recognize traces of the familiar without being able to fully name what they are seeing.
In works from the series Between Plant and Body, growth is treated as both a biological process and a psychological condition. It can suggest vitality and regeneration, but also excess, fragility, invasion, and loss of control.
Through saturated color, layered surfaces, and fluid structures, Chang explores the point at which the human body and the natural world begin to overlap. His paintings resist fixed identities, presenting life as something unstable, evolving, and constantly in the process of becoming.
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Selected Works
