Johnson Chang (Cantonese: Chang Tsong-zung; ) is a curator and dealer of contemporary Chinese art. He is a co-founder of the

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(AAA) in Hong Kong and a guest professor of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou.

Background

Chang Tsong-zung was born in 1960 in Hong Kong. He graduated from

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in 1973. He has been curating art exhibitions since the 1980s. He founded Hanart TZ gallery in Hong Kong in 1983. It is now one of the city's most established. He was a pioneer in introducing contemporary Chinese art to international exhibitions in the 1990s. It was through his gallery that he organized exhibitions of the Taiwanese sculptor

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at the

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in 1986 and

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in Paris in 1997. It was also with Hanart that he staged "China’s New Art Post-1989," which debuted at the 1993 Hong Kong Arts Festival and then toured the United States from 1995 to 1997. In Shanghai in late 2010, Chang organized "West Heavens," a contemporary art collaboration between China and India. In their annual "The Power 100" listing, Art Review named Chang, alongside Claire Hsu, for their co-founding of the AAA.

Personal

Chang is known for wearing old-fashioned Chinese-styled outfits with Mandarin collars. He was a friend of the late Sir

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, founder of Shanghai Tang. Chang helped Tang put together The

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's famed art collection. Chang is also part of Hong Kong's elite social scene and is listed in

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's "Top List." He has two sons.

Shows and Projects

* "China’s New Art Post-1989" (1993) * Special Exhibitions at the São Paulo International Biennial (1994 and 1996) * Hong Kong participation at São Paulo Biennial (1996) * The Venice Biennial (2001) * "Power of the Word" series of exhibitions * "Strange Heaven: Chinese Contemporary Photography" * "Open Asia International Sculpture Exhibition" in Venice (2005) * "Yellow Box" series, Guangzhou Triennial (2008).

References

1951 births Living people Chinese art historians Chinese curators 20th-century Hong Kong historians 21st-century Hong Kong historians {{art-historian-stub