Patty Chang received a Bachelor of Arts at the University of California, San Diego in 1994,[2] and studied abroad at L’Accademia Di Belle Arti in Venice, Italy, in 1993.
Chang was a 2008 finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize and a Guna S. Mundheim Fellow in the Visual Arts at the American Academy in Berlin in Germany for fall 2008.
[5] Chang's performative works deal with themes of gender, language and empathy, and she was described as "one of our most consistently exciting young artists" by The New York Times in 2005.
Chang often denounces the problems that she observes in contemporary society by staging her own body in intensely difficult situations, documenting her actions through video and photography.
[10] In addition she has staged solo shows in major cities, including Patty Chang at Jack Tilton Gallery, New York (1999),[1] Ven conmigo, nada contigo.