ARTIST STATEMENT
My work surrounds the vulnerability and complexity between cultural and self-identity. My figurative paintings examine issues of self-image, exotication, and belonging. Using memory, dreams, and relics, I question memory to understand generational trauma. My work reflects on what it means to dismantle, to reflect, and to confront the unreliable narrator.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Born in 1993, Carina Chang is a first-generation Chinese American painter based in New York. Her parents immigrated from Hong Kong and the Dominican Republic, and she was raised between the USA and Hong Kong. Her work examines the dysphoria around her cultural identity and self-identity. She confronts the unreliable narrator and challenges figuration in a Western world by representing her body. She graduated in 2016 at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. She exhibited in group shows at Mason Gross gallery in New Jersey and at Casa Lu in Mexico City.
© Carina Chang
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