Alexandra Chang

Alexandra Chang was born in Raleigh, North Carolina. She grew up in Lexington, Massachusetts and attended Wellesley College, graduating with a double major in Film Studies and French. She also attended La Nouelle Sorbonne (University of Paris-III at Censier Daubenton) to study Cinema. She later earned a Master's at NYU in Aesthetics and Art. She is married to scholar and historian Matthew Hockenos. She moved to New York in 1997. While in New York, she began to develop a career in writing and documentary film. She worked as an Associate Producer and Assistant Editor at the 'Simon & Goodman Picture Company', working on films for PBS, National Geographic and HBO Family under producers Kirk Simon and Karen Goodman. Her writing appeared in magazines and newspapers such as amNew York, Chicago Tribune, Time Out New York, Time, Boston Globe, Budget Travel, among others. She became the Features Editor at amNew York, the New York City free daily, as well as the managing editor of Art Asia Pacific magazine for its relaunch from Australia to New York. She also began to turn towards filming artists and documenting oral histories about the Asian American arts movement with her company Instep Productions. She co-founded the artist collective Dream So Much along with her brother, working with artists Kenji Hirata, Matzu-MTP, Sandro Tchikovani, James Marshall, among others. She also has curated several exhibitions including with artists ON megumi Akiyoshi, David Diao, Kenji Hirata, Kaws, Shin il Kim, Matzu-MTP, Leah Raintree, and Martin Wong. She has written several art monographs and texts including about artists David Diao, Jose Parla, and Tomokazu Matsuyama among others and contributed to the Oxford University Press Grove Encyclopedia of American Art. She is the author of the bestselling book Envisioning Diaspora: Asian American Visual Arts Collectives (Timezone 8 Limited). She writes (art/film/fiction) in New York and is based at the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.