Past ACCFs

Curator, Critic, and Director of Hanart T Z Gallery, Hong Kong

Johnson Chang Tsong-zung is Curatorial Director of Hanart TZ Gallery, co-founder and Board Director of Asia Art Archive, and research professor at the Visual Culture Research Centre of the China Academy of Art in Hangzhou, Zhejiang province. Chang has also been active as an independent curator for over two decades. International exhibitions curated by Chang include the seminal China's New Art, Post-1989 (international exhibition tour 1993 -1997); the Special Exhibition at the Biennial of Sao Paulo (1994 and 1996), showcasing contemporary Chinese artists; Altra Face, the presentation of Chinese contemporary art at the Centenary Exhibition of the Venice Biennale (1995); and the Hong Kong pavilions at the Biennial of Sao Paulo (1996) and the Venice Biennale (2001), both marking Hong Kong's first official participation in these events; Power of the Word (USA tour 1999-2003) under the auspices of the Independent Curators International, New York; Half a Century of Chinese Woodblock Prints (international tour 1999-2003); Paris Pekin (Paris, 2002), the first major retrospective of Chinese contemporary art in Europe; A Strange Heaven (international tour 2003-present), a survey of Chinese contemporary photography; and Yellow Box (2005), an exhibition investigating new curatorial strategies for traditional ink painting and calligraphy.