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/ bio
Pei-Yao Chang is a media artist, researcher, and novice freediver currently based in London and Taiwan. Her practice explores space(s) and the implications of embodied experiences, drawing from both the gravitational pull of the land and the weightless journey of freediving. Fascinated by sensation, movement, and perception, she investigates the concept of embodied cognition.
Her work engages with specific spatial contexts and material exploration, incorporating drawing, painting, lens-based media, and installation to examine how humans actively and passively perceive and interact with their surroundings. She seeks to understand the Earth's characteristics and the connections between human and non-human interactions.
Recently, Pei-Yao has focused on studying the profound and awe-inspiring moments that arise from the encounter between consciousness, landscapes, and seascapes, using drawing, painting, and lens-based media to capture these experiences.
/ group exhibitions
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, Taiwan
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
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/
