Overview
Kaï-Chun Chang was born in Taipei, Taiwan, in 1989 and currently lives and works in Paris. After completing his studies at Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2018, he developed a practice that stands at the intersection of painting and photography, representation and abstraction.
 
Steeped in the traditions of Chinese ink painting, Chang transforms his early training into a language of light, color, and sensation. His work explores volatile phenomena, approaching them not merely as visual subjects but as states of mind. Through delicate layering and careful extraction, he evokes a subtle, metaphysical atmosphere that transforms perception.
 
Working primarily with acrylic on canvas, he reveals transparent strata that oscillate between smooth surface and pictorial depth. Spatial perception emerges through color gradients and vibrant tonal shifts, where luminous forms dissolve and reappear, evoking memory and pure sensation. Chang’s works can be seen as contemplative interior landscapes. Positioned between material presence and immaterial suggestion, they sustain a subtle spiritual dimension. In his recent practice, light becomes increasingly tactile and textured, ranging from crystalline refractions to faint points glowing from darkness. Within these quiet tensions, a thoughtful state of being is gently revealed.
 
 
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Works
  • Ces lumières lointaines se répètent No43
    Ces lumières lointaines se répètent No43 , 2026
    acrylic on canvas
    162cm x 130cm (64” x 51”)
  • Dots no.14
    Dots no.14, 2026
    acrylic on canvas
    61cm x 50cm (24" x 20")
  • Dots no.15
    Dots no.15, 2026
    acrylic on canvas
    61cm x 50cm (24" x 20")
Studio shots
Biography

Born in Taipei in 1989, Kaï-Chun Chang lives and works in Paris after studying at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. In 2023, he was selected for the 73rd edition of the Jeune Création Prize, and in 2018 he was a finalist for the International Painting Prize of Vitry-sur-Seine. His works are held in public collections in France, China, and Taiwan, as well as in major private collections across France, Italy, Switzerland, and beyond. 

 

EDUCATION
2017    Beaux-Arts de Paris (Atelier James Rielly / Atlier Eric Poitevin) 

Diplôme National Supérieur d'Art Plastique (DNSAP)          
2014  

École Nationale Supérieure d’Art de Bourges 

Diplôme National Supérieur d'Expression Plastique 

(DNSEP avec félicitation du jury)
2012  

 National Taipei University of the Arts

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025  

Solo presentation - Galerie Romero Paprocki, Art Brussels 

2024

  

 From Air to Earth , Galerie Romero Paprocki, Paris
2024  

 ECCPROJECTS # Kai-Chun Chang, ECC, Turin
2023  

 Neither Storm nor Sunshine, Yiri Art, Taipei
2022  

 Eclipse of the room, Poush Manifesto, Paris 
2020  

 Light on the Edge, Musée Bernard Boesch, Le Pouligeun, France 
2020  

 Slide Marker, L'AMAP Saint-Malo, Saint-Malo 
2018  

 What Left in the Meanwhile, Galerie l'Inlassable, Paris
2017  

 My Mirror Your Window, Beaux-arts de Paris (DNSAP)
2016  

 Images of Lost Profiles, Galerie Paris Horizon, Paris

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025  

Correspendance, Le studio 17, Paris
 2024   Night Stroll, Galerie Elsa Meunier - Mathilde Le Coz, Paris
 2024   Mountain Friends, Fred&Ferry Gallery, Antwerps, Belgique
 2023    73e Festival Jeune Création, Espace Niemeyer, Paris
 2023   Dear Stranger, Kunstverein Dresden, Dresden, Germany
 2023   Absent de Paris, Cité Internationale des Arts, Annexe, Paris
 2023   Yellow Nap, Galerie Romero Paprocki, Paris
 2023   Streched Filament, Pal Project, Paris 
 2022   Hot Paper, Galerie l'inlassable, Paris
 2021   Artistes in residany, Atelier Plessix-Madeux, Saint-Jacut-de-la-mer
 2021   Galerie l’inlassable 2011-2021, Galerie MONTEVERITA, Paris
 2020   A Pale View of Hills, Yiri Art, Taipei
 2019    Fugue, Abbaye de Léhon, Dinan
 2019   On View, Galerie Vitrine 65, Paris
 2018   November at Vitry, Galerie municipale
 2018   Identity, Galerie L'inlassable, Paris
 2016   The Night of Museum, Musée de la chasse et de la nature, Paris 
 2014   Palèmètrèbo #4, Palais Jacque Coeur, Bourges
 
AWARD
 2024  

Acquisition Prize Collezione Scarzella
 2023   73e Jeune Création 
 2018   Nominate Prix international de peinture de Vitry sur Seine
 
Artist Residency
2020    (June - August) Musée Bernard Boesch, La Baule, France
 2020  

(February - May) La Cour des Arts, Saint-Rémy de Provence, France
 2019   (January - March) Ateliers du Plessix-Madeuc, Dinan, France
 
COLLECTIONs
 2023   Lukowa Fondation, Switzerland
 2021   Art Bank Taiwan, Taiwan 
 2020   Musée Bernard Boesch, Le Pouliguen, France
 2016   Museum Of Contemporary Art of Yinchuan, China 

 

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