About
My name is C. Grace Chang, and I’m a visual artist, curator, filmmaker, and writer from New Jersey living in Malmö, Sweden. My work combines decolonial theory with Virtual Reality, film, and installation to examine the construction of visual safe havens, coded power structures, and the politics of refusal. I also host and produce the Konst Detox podcast.
This fall, I was selected to participate in the PROSPER / LOOP Athens residency on Evia Island (GR) in October 2024. PROSPER stands for “Prototypes for Sustainable Residencies in the Peripheries”. The residency was co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union. Currently, I’m spearheading a new pre-study on Public Art in the Digital Sphere, funded by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee/Kulturbryggan’s Fröpengar initiative to support experimental pre-studies with the potential to renew art and culture in a comprehensive way.
As part of Film i Skåne’s Talent to Watch 2022 Program, I wrote, directed, and produced my comedic debut short film A Very Friendly Search Party, starring Dilan Apak and Summer Masuda. The film is currently in post-production. I’ve also worked as 1st AD on Hussain Currimbhoy’s short film Alhambra.
From 2020–2022, I founded and ran the Third Space Residency for QTBIPOC artists in the Skåne region. Additionally, I’ve taught and examined at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and have worked as a curator, consultant and board member for various arts organisations in Sweden, including Konstforum i Skåne, Konst Detox, Skånes Konstförening, and Statens Konstråd.
I received my B.A. in English Language and Literature (w/ minor: East Asian Languages and Literatures) from Smith College in 2011. Later, I received both of her M.A.s from Lund University in Literature, Culture & Media (2016) and Visual Culture (2018).
I specialize in art curation, applied intersectional strategies, film production, experience design, screenwriting, and academic research.