Susanna Chang (b. 1999) is an artist using photography to create painterly and dream-like images that locate mystery in what is small, overlooked, and ephemeral. Her lyrical images are characterized by striking colors, stylized compositions, and everyday subject matter.
With influences such as Christian mysticism, modernist literature, Impressionism, free jazz, reflexive cinema, and Japanese woodblock prints, she contemplates existential and spiritual themes through her work, such as the instability of memory and the rapturous beauty of fleeting moments.
Born in Maine to Japanese and Korean minister parents, she moved in Tokyo at 12 years of age and began taking photos as a teenager out of lonely wonderment. She pursued her curiosity for aesthetic theories and histories at Columbia University, where she received a BA in art history and English literature in 2022 and learned darkroom printing with Emile Askey. She has been a teaching assistant at the International Center of Photography for their advanced darkroom courses with Jim Megargee and currently works as a Graphics and Administrative Assistant at Film Forum, an independent non-profit arthouse cinema in New York City. She currently lives in Queens.
With influences such as Christian mysticism, modernist literature, Impressionism, free jazz, reflexive cinema, and Japanese woodblock prints, she contemplates existential and spiritual themes through her work, such as the instability of memory and the rapturous beauty of fleeting moments.
Born in Maine to Japanese and Korean minister parents, she moved in Tokyo at 12 years of age and began taking photos as a teenager out of lonely wonderment. She pursued her curiosity for aesthetic theories and histories at Columbia University, where she received a BA in art history and English literature in 2022 and learned darkroom printing with Emile Askey. She has been a teaching assistant at the International Center of Photography for their advanced darkroom courses with Jim Megargee and currently works as a Graphics and Administrative Assistant at Film Forum, an independent non-profit arthouse cinema in New York City. She currently lives in Queens.