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Artist Talk with Phil Chang

Friday, April 22–3PM PT

An artist talk and conversation with Phil Chang. Presenting works from his most recent exhibition Phil Chang: Pictures, Pigment and Canvas at M+B, as well as current and past projects, Phil will discuss the ongoing subjects of materiality, the object of photography and impressions of representation in his work. Phil’s presentation will be followed by an open Q&A.

Phil Chang (b. 1974, Elkhart, IN) received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. Recent solo exhibitions include The Suburban, Milwaukee, WI and Cache, Active at LAXART. Recent institutional group shows include Light Play: Experiments in Photography, 1970 to the Present at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Keeper of the Hearth: Picturing Roland Barthes’ Unseen Photograph, Houston Center for Photography, Houston; A Matter of Memory: Photography as Object in the Digital Age at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester, NY; About Time at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Unfixed: The Fugitive Image at the Cleveland Museum of Art’s Transformer Station, OH.

Chang’s work has been written about in ARTFORUM, The New Yorker, Los Angeles Times, Aperture, Blind Spot, IMA Magazine and C-Photo. Other published texts include those with Charlotte Cotton, James Welling and Walter Benn Michaels, and an artist’s book Four Over One, published by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Curatorial projects have included Soft Target at M+B, Affective Turns? at Pepin Moore and Seeing Sight at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. His work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the California Museum of Photography, UCR ARTS. Phil Chang lives and works in Los Angeles.