About

My name is C. Grace Chang, and I’m a visual artist, curator, writer and filmmaker from New Jersey living in Malmö, Sweden. My work combines decolonial theory with Virtual Reality, film, and installation to examine the construction of visual safe havens, coded power structures, and the politics of refusal.

I recently received the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s working grant in fine art (2026–2027) and was selected for the IASPIS Residency at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Seoul, Korea (September–December 2026). During this residency, I will use music theory and quantum ontologies to create interactive soundscapes using Korean traditional musical practices, essays, and speculative fiction. I’m excited to explore ideas of kinship, grief/healing, and radical hope across timelines!

In 2024–2025, I led a new pre-study on Public Art in the Digital Sphere, funded by the Swedish Arts Grants Committee/Kulturbryggan’s Fröpengar initiative to support experimental pre-studies with the potential to renew art and culture in a comprehensive way. Alongside my teammates Sophia Persson and Jamila Drott at Plattform KcSyd, I co-wrote research paper on our findings.

In October 2024, I was selected to participate in the PROSPER / LOOP Athens residency on Evia Island (GR) in . PROSPER stands for “Prototypes for Sustainable Residencies in the Peripheries”. The residency was co-funded by the Creative Europe Program of the European Union.

As part of Film i Skåne’s Talent to Watch 2022 Program, I wrote, directed, and produced my comedic debut short film A Very Friendly Search Party, starring Dilan Apak and Summer Masuda. The film is currently in post-production. I’ve also worked as 1st AD on Hussain Currimbhoy’s short film Alhambra. 

From 2020–2022, I founded and ran the Third Space Residency for QTBIPOC artists in the Skåne region. I also created, hosted, and produced the Konst Detox podcast. Additionally, I’ve taught and examined at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, and have worked as a curator, consultant and board member for various arts organisations in Sweden, including Konstforum i Skåne, Konst Detox, Skånes Konstförening, and Statens Konstråd.

I received my B.A. in English Language and Literature (w/ minor: East Asian Languages and Literatures) from Smith College in 2011. Later, I received both of her M.A.s from Lund University in Literature, Culture & Media (2016) and Visual Culture (2018). 

I specialize in art curation, applied intersectional strategies, film production, experience design, screenwriting, and academic research.