Press
Selected international press, academic writing and database listings on CHANG Tengyuan and the Parrotman series, listed in reverse chronological order.
Press & Coverage
TVBS Health 2.0 covers CHANG Tengyuan's solo exhibition Taiyang Gong & Shennong at Ma Kuang TCM's Xinyi clinic, where Parrotman paintings and mini figures were placed in the waiting area.
Read at TVBS ↗Economic Daily News reports on CHANG Tengyuan's 4.5-metre inflatable sculpture Parrotman at Shin Kong Mitsukoshi Xiaobeimen, the childhood pet parakeet named Slipper behind the character, and his collaborations with Cody Sanderson and Leo Wang.
Read at UDN ↗Prestige Online Hong Kong names CHANG Tengyuan one of its Asian Artists to Watch in 2024, introducing his post-apocalyptic archaeology and Parrotman, with exhibitions in London, New York, Cologne, Osaka, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Taipei.
Read at Prestige Online ↗ELLE Hong Kong interviews CHANG Tengyuan about his first Hong Kong solo exhibition, Parrotman in Hong Kong, at 13a New Street Art Gallery: how Parrotman's post-apocalyptic archaeology has evolved since 2012, and why caudiciform plants, yoga and other pop culture appear in his paintings.
Read at ELLE HK ↗Vogue Taiwan features Asylum, an art hotel in Taipei's Zhongshan District created by Equal with CHANG Tengyuan. Built around Parrotman's post-apocalyptic world in four themes, it includes 14 works available for purchase.
Read at Vogue Taiwan ↗BOOOOOOOM! features CHANG Tengyuan for the second time, following its first article in 2016, focusing on new works from his Osaka solo exhibition and the growing post-apocalyptic world of the Parrotman scientists.
Read at BOOOOOOOM! ↗Juksy interviews CHANG Tengyuan about One-Man Mission (2018, Galerie Grand Siècle), a solo exhibition marking ten years of practice: the 2008 eye-series animations, Parrotman as a recurring character, and his choice not to pursue teaching.
Read at Juksy ↗A master's thesis at Tainan National University of the Arts devoted entirely to the new media imagery of CHANG Tengyuan.
View at TNNUA ↗Thai design and art magazine art4d interviews CHANG Tengyuan in a WHO/WHAT/WHEN/WHERE/WHY format, on a practice built around keywords, questions and reflection, and his work Escape to Earth at the 2016 Taipei Biennial.
Read at art4d ↗BOOOOOOOM!'s first feature on CHANG Tengyuan, presenting his narrative paintings as an artist imagining the end of the world. It was the first time his work was featured by an independent North American art outlet.
Read at BOOOOOOOM! ↗L.DOPE covers Migrant, CHANG Tengyuan's first solo exhibition in Tokyo (2016, Tokyo Arts Gallery), which continues Parrotman's post-apocalyptic archaeology and looks at human migration against the backdrop of the European refugee crisis.
Read at L.DOPE ↗An art critic reviews CHANG Tengyuan's solo exhibition Whose Landscape in the February 2010 issue of ARTITUDE, describing images built from shared symbols and language into maze-like compositions.
Read at Yamore ↗CHANG Tengyuan's artist page on artnet, the international art market database, with auction records and gallery information.
View on artnet ↗