Monica Chang is a Korean-American, interdisciplinary artist born and raised in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. As for her academic background, she is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon’s Fine Arts program where she studied art, animation, literature, language studies and film. 

 

Many of her creations are inspired by fairytale films, games, fables, or oral stories shared by family or even stories of her own life. You will often find enlarged heads, anatomically incorrect bodies, and occasionally diabolical and unsettling critters running around the mystical dreamscapes that manifests from the thoughts that prance around in her head. 

 

She often centers her work around the darker themes that are bound to this world such as fears or traumas in hopes of making these topics feel easier to accept and analyze. She does this in the belief that this process is crucial to being able to celebrate life. 

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"I want my viewers to feel a sense of unease or discomfort when they look at my work, but I also want them to be drawn in by the beauty and strangeness of the worlds I create."

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