Chien-Chi Chang - Chinese New Art

Chien-Chi Chang

張乾琦

張乾琦 pinyin Zhang Ganqi

1961

Chien-Chi Chang was born inTaiwan into a working class family.

He studied at Soochow University of Taipei.

1984

Graduated with a bachelor degree in Art, ( B.A.), he continued his studies in United States

and started to develop an interest to photography.

1990

He graduated with a Master degree in Science, from Indiana University, Bloomington.

1991

He began working as a photojournalist at the Seattle Times then at Baltimore Sun.

1995

He joined the photography agency Magnum.

His series The Chain, a collection of 48 portraits taken in a mental asylum, in Taiwan

made him famous in Biennials of Venice ( 2001 ) and Sao Paolo ( 2002 )

2003

They are published in a book under the same title which obtained the First Place,

in Pictures of the Year International, U.S.A.

Other topics in his books:

Marital ties through photos without joy of Taiwanese weddings IDo, IDo, IDo

2005

Description of the business around the marriages negotiated between Taiwanese

and Vietnamese: Double Happiness.

2008

His work Doubleness ( begun in 1992 ), on the life of illegal immigrants from China's coastal

Fujian Province, was first exhibited at the National Museum of Singapore and at the Taiwan

Pavilion of the Venice Biennale in 2009.

Awards

1998	First Place,	Daily Life, World Press Photo, the Netherlands
1998	Magazine Photographer of the Year	National Press Photographers Association, USA
1999	Visa d’Or	Visa Pour L’image, Perpignan, France
1999	W. Eugene Smith grant	Memorial Fund for Humanistic Photography, USA
2003	First Place	Pictures of the Year International, USA

Danièle Sicard


		Solo exhibitions selection

		United States
2004	28.02 12.12	Southeast Museum of Photography	The Chain
		Daytona Beach

		United States	China Town
2004	15.04 22.05	JulieSaul Gallery
		New York

		United Kingdom
2005	18.01 30.01	Ffotogallery	The Chain
		Cardiff

		Taiwan
2006	04.11 30.12	Chi Wien Gallery	The Map
		Taipei

		Singapore
2008		National Museum	Doubleness
		Singapore

		Taiwan
2009	17.01 28.02	Chi Wien Gallery	Chien Chi Chang
		Taipei






		Collective exhibitions selection

		Italiy
2001		Biennial of Venice
		Venice

		Brazil
2002		Biennial of Sao Paulo
		Sao Paulo

		United States
2003		International Center of Photography	Triennale
		New York

		Italy
2009	07.06 22.11	Biennial of Venice	Taiwan Pavilion
		Venice

		France
2012		Théâtre antique	Rencontres d'Arles
		Arles

		Australia
2014	02.06 02.08	Sherman Contemporary Foundation	Home
		Sydney

		Australia
2014	24.05 02.08	The Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation	Home
		Sydney

		France
2014	01.10 31.10	Esther Woerdehoff Galllery	Drive In
		Paris

		The Netherlands
2015	11.09 08.12	Foam Photography Museum	Magnum
		Amsterdam	Contact Shets

		Spain
2016	26.05 10.06	loop Festivalp
		Barcelona

		France
2016	20.09 20.06	Asia Now	Art Fair
		Paris
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