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Alexandra Chang
Occupation(s)Art historian, curator

Alexandra Chang is an Asian-American art curator, art historian, and editor.[1][2][3][4][5] Chang co-founded the peer-reviewed journal Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas in 2015.[2][1][6]

In 2009, Timezone 8 Editions published Chang's book Envisioning Diaspora : Asian American visual arts collectives from Godzilla, Godzookie to the Barnstormers, which had a foreword by art historian Margo Machida.[7] In 2015, Chang and Alice Ming Wai Jim co-founded the journal Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas, which they continue to serve as co-editor-in-chiefs.[2][6]

In April 2018, Chang's book Circles and Circuits: Chinese Caribbean Art, which addresses Chinese diasporic community in the Caribbean, was published by Duke University Press.[8] Chang was a co-curator with Zarina Hashmi on the Dark Roads exhibition, which commemorated the 70th anniversary of the 1947 Partition of Bengal.[9] Chang was also the project director for The Virtual Asian American Art Museum.[10] In 2019, ArtTable, a professional organization dedicated to the advancement of women in visual arts, awarded Chang with the New Leadership Award for her role as Curator of Special Projects and Director of Global Arts Programs at Asian/Pacific/American Institute at New York University (NYU).[3] While working at NYU, Chang was part of the 2019 organizing committee for the Diasporic Asian Art Network.[11] She also served on the curatorial committee for the Smithsonian Archives of American Art and the National Portrait Gallery's 2019-2020 exhibit - What is Feminist Art?[12][1] Chang works as an Associate Professor in Rutgers University's Department of Arts, Culture and Media.[13]

In 2021, Chang, along with 18 other members of the artist collective Godzilla, signed a letter to the Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) withdrawing from an exhibit they were featured in as a way to protest MOCA's 'complicity' with the city plan to build a new jail in Chinatown.[14][4] In the same year, Chang was a panelist at the College Art Association conference for an event titled "Futures of 'Activists' Scholarship."[5] In 2022, Chang co-curated the exhibit "Imagining Justice—Asian American Art Movements" at the Mōri Museum.[15]

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  1. ^ a b c Archives, the (2019-10-14). "What is Feminist Art?". www.aaa.si.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
  2. ^ a b c "Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas". Brill. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
  3. ^ a b Gleichenhaus, Becca (2019-04-05). "Arttable's Annual Benefit Honors Estrellita B. Brodsky and Alexandra Chang". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
  4. ^ a b "Godzilla 10 members on community, collaboration, and rupture". www.artforum.com. 6 May 2021. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
  5. ^ a b Siddiqui, Yasmeen (2022). Storytellers of art histories : living and sustaining a creative life. Yasmeen Siddiqui, Alpesh Kantilal Patel. Bristol, UK: Intellect Books. pp. Introduction. ISBN 978-1-78938-427-7. OCLC 1289304508.
  6. ^ a b Langford, Martha (2017). Narratives unfolding : national art histories in an unfinished world. Montreal: McGill-Queen's Press. p. 387. ISBN 978-0-7735-5081-0. OCLC 972182021.
  7. ^ Chang, Alexandra (2009). Envisioning diaspora : Asian American visual arts collectives from Godzilla, Godzookie to the barnstormers. Beijing: Timezone 8 Editions. ISBN 978-988-17522-3-9. OCLC 286499997.
  8. ^ Chang, Alexandra (2018). Circles and circuits : Chinese Caribbean art. Los Angeles, CA: Duke University Press. ISBN 978-0-9987451-0-7. OCLC 981985112.
  9. ^ Jayawardane, M. Neelika (2018-01-19). "A Somber Commemoration of the Partition of India, 70 Years Later". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
  10. ^ ""Under the Hood" with Alexandra Chang and Laura Kina: "Developing Cross-Institutional Digital Humanities Projects: The Virtual Asian American Art Museum."". DePaul University. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
  11. ^ "Contact Us". Diasporic Asian Art Network. 2016-07-09. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
  12. ^ "Now: 2019 Exhibition". www.aaa.si.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
  13. ^ "Palmer Museum opens vibrant, timely exhibition of Asian and Asian American art | Penn State University". www.psu.edu. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
  14. ^ Bishara, Hakim (2021-03-11). "Godzilla Withdraws From Museum of Chinese in America Retrospective, Citing "Complicity" in NYC Jails". Hyperallergic. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
  15. ^ "MAM Research 009: Imagining Justice - Asian American Art Movements | Mori Art Museum". www.mori.art.museum. Retrieved 2022-11-15.
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