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/ bio
Pei-Yao Chang is a media artist and researcher based between London and Taiwan. Her practice explores space, materiality, and embodied experience, informed by an ongoing sensitivity to gravity and weightlessness, shaped in part by earlier experiences of freediving. Through an interest in sensation, movement, and perception, she engages with the notion of embodied cognition.
Working across drawing, lens-based media, installation, and material experimentation with clay, ash, and glaze, she responds to specific spatial contexts. Her practice examines how we perceive and relate to both the physical and ephemeral qualities of our surroundings—attending to subtle shifts in sensation, material transformation, and the emergence of forms in a continuous state of becoming.
/ group exhibitions
2026 | Activation: Micro-Language Models of Art
MiART Space, Changhua, TW
2025 | Pearlescent, ASC’s 30th Anniversary Exhibition
The Handbag Factory, London, UK
2024 | Annual Open Exhibition 2024
Southwark Park Galleries, Lake Gallery, London, UK
2024 | A Lovers Churchyard
Jazzlive at The Crypt , London, UK
2024 | Boundaries
Outhouse Gallery, London, UK
2024 | Resonance, Unending
Pei-Yao Chang & Christina Tai Duo Exhibition
Space Moor Gallery / Zhengbin Harbour Museum of Art
Keelung, TW
2023 | Annual Open Exhibition 2023
Southwark Park Galleries, Lake Gallery, London, UK
2023 | Heat
RuptureXIBIT (+Studio) Gallery, Kingston, UK
2023 | Shapes & Things
AMP Studios, London, UK
2023 | Stone City
Fringe Arts Bath Festival, Bath, UK
2023 |
Saltaire Arts Trail (alongside Saltaire Open Village programme)
Wharf St Studios, Shipley, UK
2023 | Horizonites
Post Office Projects Gallery, Port Adelaide, Australia
2022 | Royal College of Art Graduate Show 2022
Royal College of Art, Battersea South Campus, London, UK
https://2022.rca.ac.uk/students/pei-yao-chang
2022 | At the Edge of Safe House
Safe House 1&2, London, UK
https://instagram.com/attheedgeofsafehouse?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=
2022 | WiP Show (Working in Progress)
Royal College of Art, White City, London, UK
2021 | Sensorial Landscapes: The Marine Frontier (virtual)
2021 | Proximity & Distance
Hoxton, London, UK
/ other experiences
2026 | ASC Open Studios
The Chaplin Centre, Taplow House, Thurlow Street, Walworth, London, UK
2024 | ASC Open Studios
The Chaplin Centre, Taplow House, Thurlow Street, Walworth, London, UK
https://ascstudios.co.uk/events/thurlow-street-open-studios-2024/
2024 | Artist-in-Residence (April)
Space Moor Gallery
Zhengbin Harbour Museum of Art, Keelung, Taiwan
2023 | Guest Lecturer at Royal College of Art
Information Experience Design programme
Gorvy Lecture theatre, Battersea, Royal College of Art
2021 | Sensorial Landscapes: The Marine Frontier - an Expanded Museum Symposium
Artist Talk
/ interviews
2025 | Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art | Barcelona, Spain.
https://www.altiba9.com/artist-interviews/pei-yao-chang-body-mixed-media-spaces
2025 | Artwork Gallery | Kyiv, Ukraine
https://artworkgallery.net/interviews/interview-with-pei-yao-chang/
