Abigail Chang

Abigail Chang is a designer and educator from Los Angeles and based in New York. Forged between academia and practice, her work is interested in subtle encounters that are driven by material qualities and details, and that respond to currents in contemporary culture.

A recent installation, Skeuomorphic Screens, examines the screen as an architectural element that singularly translates apertures, portals, and reflections. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including the 2019 Lisbon Architecture Triennale and the 2021 Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, and supported by the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts. She is currently Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Chicago College of Architecture, Design, and the Arts.

Prior to starting her practice, she worked in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, Basel, and Tokyo at architecture and landscape architecture firms including Norman Kelley, SO – IL, and Herzog & de Meuron. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, with distinction, and a Master’s in Architecture from Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, where she was awarded the Takenaka Fellowship.