Patty Chang

Patty Chang (born February 3, 1972, in San Leandro, California) is an American performance artist and film director living and working in Los Angeles, California. Originally trained as a painter, Chang received her Bachelor of Arts at the University of California, San Diego. It wasn't until she moved to New York that she became involved with performance art.

She has staged solo shows nationally and internationally, including at Jack Tilton Gallery, New York (1999), Museo National de Reina Sofia, Madrid (2000), the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and the New Museum, New York (all 2005), Flotsam Jetsam with longtime collaborator David Kelley at the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2014), the Queens Museum (2017-18), the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston (2020), and Pioneer Works in Brooklyn (2021).