Chang Zhi Chen Chen, Chang Zhi (Photography, Visual Design)

Chang Zhi Chen won the Gold Medal in Photography at the National Art Exhibition marking the centennial of the Republic of China, and a Bronze Medal in the professional category of the Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3). Chen’s dance video was the only entry from Asia selected for the TOP30 of the 2015 60secondsdance international dance film competition.

Major exhibitions include the solo exhibition “In / Outside the Body” in Spain, the sound and installation exhibition “Live Perspective” (實況透視), and the solo exhibitions “Dance Documents” (舞蹈文件) and “In the Name of Poetry” (以詩之名). Chen has also been invited to take part in nearly forty exhibitions, including the Creative Base Festival, the Qingshui Land Art Festival, Very Fun Park, Photo Taipei, the Taipei Poetry Festival e-Poetry Installation Exhibition, the Lacking Sound Festival, the Artist Fair, and Taipei Centennial. Chen’s theatre installation and video design work includes nearly ten productions, among them “Blackout” by Lai Tsui-Shuang Dance Theatre (賴翠霜舞創劇場) and “Body War” (身體戰爭) by the 林向秀 dance company.

A graduate of the Department of Fine Arts and the Graduate School of Plastic Arts at National Taiwan University of Arts, Chen has served four terms on the Miaoli County Public Art Review Committee. Chen works full-time as an artist and has long collaborated with the theatre world, steadily building a body of images and documentation of the performing arts. With landscape-gathering projects as a central thread, Chen has also developed a new photographic technique called “relative perspective.” Caring deeply for the land and its people, Chen also farms part-time, using eco-friendly methods, and tends an avocado orchard.