Candy Chang

Candy Chang (born in Pittsburg) is an American contemporary artist. Chang specializes in participatory art and is the creator of the Before I Die public art project that has been highly acclaimed around the world.
Chang is also a TED Speaker and World Economic Forum Young Global Leader known for her art installations that highlight the importance of public places and their role in uplifting the community both mentally and spiritually.
Chang is a TED Senior Fellow, an Urban Innovation Fellow, and was featured in The Oprah Magazine as a “Live Your Best Life” Local Hero. She was also listed as one of the Top 100 Leaders in Public Interest Design by Impact Design Hub and is the recipient of the Tony Goldman Visionary Artist Award and University of Michigan Bicentennial Alumni Award. 
== Early life and education ==
Chang was born in Pittsburg. Her parents immigrated to the United States from Taiwan. She attended Phillips Exeter Academy. Later, Chang enrolled at the University of Michigan, where she pursued a bachelor’s degree in Architecture and a bachelor’s degree in Graphic Design. She also has a master’s degree in Urban Planning from Columbia University. 
== Career ==
Chang started her career making street art in 2006, and since then has created numerous public art projects that have been featured in museums around the world. Chang has created participatory art with organizations and people such as the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, Art Production Fund, Rubin Museum of Art, Annenberg Foundation, Mint Museum, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, James A. Reeves, and others. Her work has been exhibited in the Venice Architecture Biennale, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
The highly acclaimed project by Chang - Before I Die - was initiated in 2011 after the death of a dear one, in order to cope with the loss and depression. This is when she created Before I Die on the walls of an abandoned building in her neighborhood in New Orleans. The participatory public artwork was created by Chang as a tribute to Joan and as a coping mechanism to bring perspective to her life. Within days, the Before I Die wall was full of hundreds of handwritten wishes by strangers. Chang’s public forum has been recreated in over 75 countries across the world. This project has also been compiled into a book that was published in 2013. 
Chang is an influential keynote speaker and has spoken at various events and platforms including TED, of which she is also a senior fellow. Her TED talk has been viewed over 5 million times and is one of the most translated TED talks, translated into over 40 languages. She has lectured at numerous places, including Center for Architecture, New York; Creativity World Forum, Rio de Janeiro; Google, Macau; Metropolitan Planning Council, Chicago; Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta; Summer Public Art School, Turku; Women’s Leadership Conference, Las Vegas, and others. 
Chang has also been featured in numerous publications such as The Atlantic, Time Magazine, Public Art Journal, Women’s Health Magazine, Forbes Magazine, Pelican Bomb, CNN, NBC, The Oprah Magazine, and others.
== Artworks ==
S.No. 	Name 	Location 	Year
1 	Sidewalk Psychiatry 	New York 	2006
2 	A Nice Place For A Tree 	New York 	2007
3 	Community Chalkboards 	Johannesburg, South Africa 	2007-2008
4 	Post It Notes For Neighbours 	Brooklyn, New York 	2008
5 	The Pedestrian Timeline 	New York 	2008
6 	Tenants’ Rights Flashcards 	New York 	2008
7 	Human Rights 	 	
2008-2010	 	 	
8 	Street Vendor Guide 	New York 	2009
9 	Neighbour Doorknob Hanger 	USA 	2010
10 	You Make Me Feel So Mahatva 	Helsinki, Finland 	2010
11 	I Wish This Was 	New Orleans, Louisiana 	2010
12 	Before I Die 	New Orleans & Worldwide 	2011- present
13 	Career Path 	Turku, Finland 	2011
14 	Neighborland 	New Orleans & Worldwide 	2011 - present
15 	Looking For Love Again 	Fairbanks, Alaska 	2011
16 	Confessions 	Las Vegas, London, Athens, Yerevan, and other locations	2012 - present
17 	Kissing Crying and Making Out In Public 	Hong Kong 	2013
18 	School of the Future 	Alabama 	2013
19 	Love Destroys Time 	New Orleans, Louisiana 	2014
20 	She Dreamed of a Place Called Fat City 	New Orleans, Louisiana 	2015
21 	School of the Future 	Athenes, Greece 	2016
22 	The Atlas of Tomorrow 	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 	2016 - present
23 	Grief is a Beast That Will Never Be Tamed	Heraklion, Greece 	2017
24 	A Monument for the Anxious and Hopeful 	New York 	2018
25 	Light The Barricades 	Los Angeles, California; Charlotte, North Carolina 	2019 - 2021
== Selected exhibitions ==
* WALLS: Defend, Divide, and the Divine, Annenberg Space for Photography, Los Angeles, California, September 5 – December 29, 2019.
* Art of the City: Postmodern to Post-Katrina, The Helis Foundation and Historic New Orleans Collection, April 6 – October 6, 2019
* No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C., March 30, 2018 – January 21, 2019
* Three Experiments in the City by Candy Chang, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece, 2016
* By the People: Designing a Better America, Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, New York, 2016.
* Public Works: Artists’ Interventions 1970s-Now, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California, September 16 – December 13, 2015
* Until We Meet Again, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, 2013
* Past Futures, Present, Futures, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, New York, 2012
* National Design Triennial, Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, New York, 2011.
== In the media ==
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== References ==
== External links ==
* Official website
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Category:American contemporary artists
Category:American artists