“I am inspired by the collectivities and imaginaries of the trans-oceanic kinship networks that have formed through various migrations and circulation of care and labor, especially those of my community and non-traditional family fabric(…) I hope to forge new possibilities for existing beyond histories of struggle and territorially bounded cultural representations.”
Zoila Andrea Coc-Chang (鄭慧蘭) is a Chinese-Guatemalan mixed-media artist and educator from Miami. Her work interrogates the complexities and intimacies between and within Asia and the Americas to not only reveal and work through the nuances of where and when these geographies collide, but in hope of forging new possibilities for existing beyond histories of struggle and territorially-bounded cultural representations. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including : The Arsenal at Central Park (NY), Jeffrey Deitch (NY), Lycoming College Art Gallery (PA), Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MA), the Pao Arts Center in Chinatown Boston (MA) and more.
Coc-Chang holds an MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Yale School of Art and a BA in Studio Art and Education Studies from Brandeis University. She completed an apprenticeship at STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery in Singapore and was an artist fellow at A.I.R Gallery in New York in 2022-23. Currently she is a Lecturer in Visual Arts at Brown University. Most recently she had a solo show at A.I.R Gallery (NY) and was selected to participate in the XXIII Bienal de Arte Paiz Guatemala (GUA).
