Lavender Chang
WORKS EXHIBITIONS PROFILE
Lavender Chang (b. 1983, Taiwan) is known for her conceptual photographs. Her process-based practice reflects her acute observations of the subtle nuances in daily life and exploration of the imperceptibility and transience of time, memory, and mortality.
Chang’s extensive exhibition history includes solo exhibitions: A Glimpse of Radiance from Under, FOST Gallery, Singapore (2022); Diverse Oneness, commissioned by Alliance Française de Singapour for its 70th anniversary (2019); Floating Rays of a Wanderer, Art Porters Gallery, Singapore (2019); I Am a Seed Though A Different One From You, The Arts House, Singapore (2017); and The Movingly Minute Scale of a Restricted Life, Societe Generale, Alliance Française de Singapour, Singapore (2016).
The series, Sheltered Dreams, was specially commissioned by the Peranakan Museum for their Museum reopening exhibition in 2023. Selected group shows include Artist’s Proof: Singapore at 60, Culture Story, Singapore; Elemental: Highlights from ADM Photography Alumni, ADM Gallery, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2025); Bandung Photography Triennale, Indonesia (2022); Ecopsychology, Objectifs – Centre for Photography and Film, Singapore (2019); In Praise of Shadows, ADM Gallery, (2017); Sensorium 360°, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (2014); Kuala Lumpur International Photo Awards, Malaysia (2011); and International Orange Photo Festival, Changsha, China (2010).
She was the recipient of the Gold award at The Crowbar Awards, Singapore (2011); and the winner of the Noise Singapore Prize. In 2015, she won the 6th France+ Singapore Photographic Art Awards; one year later, her collaboration with &Larry won the President Design Award’s Design of the Year.
In recent years, Chang has been deeply involved in film-making. Her cinematography work for John Clang’s debut feature film, Their Remaining Journey, premiered at the 2018 International Film Festival Rotterdam and garnered a nomination for the festival’s Bright Future Award. It is also the opening film for the National Gallery Singapore’s Painting with Light: Festival of International Films on Art. In 2020, A Love Unknown was selected by the International Film Festival Rotterdam for its Bright Future Main Programme, and by the 12th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival for its Asian premier. The film went on to be selected for Singular Screens by Singapore International Festival of Arts, curated by Asian Film Archive (2021). Her debut feature film, Absent Smile, had its world premiere at the 2022 Singapore International Film Festival’s Singapore Panorama section and the Reciprocal 2023: Asian Film Archive x Eye Filmmuseum.
She was invited to speak about her practice at the TEDxNTU “Pause to Progress as an Observer of the Intangible” in 2022 and at TEDxMacauUST “Time and Process: the search for the invisible essence”, in Macau in 2024.
Chang lives and works in Singapore.