Patty Chang was born in 1972 in San Francisco. Originally trained as a painter, she graduated with a BA from the University of California at San Diego in 1994 and shortly after moved to New York, where she became involved with the Performance scene. Chang has had solo shows at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid (2000), Baltic Art Center in Visby, Sweden (2001), Jack Tilton Gallery in New York (1999 and 2001), Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (2005) and Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine (2008), among others.

She has appeared in group shows and performances such as the Performance Festival at Kunstpanorama in Lucerne (2000), Quadrennial of Contemporary Art at the Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst in Ghent (2001), "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall" at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams (2002), "Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self" at the International Center of Photography in New York (2003), "Still Points of the Turning World" at SITE Santa Fe (2006), "Family Pictures' at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2007) and New Directors/New Film Festival at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (2008). She produced Revolver, a show for European cable television, in 2002. Chang has received grants from the New York Foundation for the Arts (1999), Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation (2000), Rockefeller Foundation (2003) and Tides Foundation (2005). In 2003, she served as resident faculty at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Image: The Product of Love (still)