Abigail Chang
New York, United States
Abigail Chang is an artist, architect, and critic at Yale School of Architecture. Her multidisciplinary practice responds to contemporary culture through installations and objects that emphasize materials, subtle encounters, and perceptual framing. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Lisbon Triennale (2019), Seoul Biennale (2021), and the Design Museum of Chicago. Solo projects include Reflections of a Room at Volume Gallery and Display Window, a site-specific installation transforming a building façade into a visual stage. She received the Chicago Architectural Club’s Emerging Visions Award (2023) and research grants from the Graham Foundation and UIC. Her critical writing, including “Screen Time” and “Reflection: Literal and Phenomenal,” explores the intersection of architecture, technology, and aesthetics.
2025 Biennial Project
Project Overview
Liquid Glass #01
Buildings today are often designed to keep the outside out—sealed, insulated, and armored to separate us from the environment. Water is usually treated as a problem to control or hide. Liquid Glass #01 reimagines this. The installation shows a room where water is collected, not repelled. Surfaces are wrapped in materials that make droplets bead, and windows sit flush with walls so water can glide down freely. Sloped surfaces and soft seams make the space feel connected to the body, encouraging awareness of everyday water—from sweat and breath to cooking and cleaning. Visitors are invited to reflect on water’s movement, fragility, and its connection to the spaces we inhabit.
The work is generously supported by the Yale School of Architecture and the Mark Foster Gage Foundation.
Previous work
Project Overview
Venue
View moreStony Island Arts Bank
Address
6760 S Stony Island Ave, Chicago, IL 60649
Neighborhood
South Side
Description
Designed by William Gibbons Uffendell and built in 1923, the Stony Island Loan & Savings Bank at 68th and Stony Island was slated for demolition before artist Theaster Gates rescued, restored, and reconstituted the structure in 2015. One of Gates’s most notable spatial projects in Greater Grand Crossing, the Stony Island Arts Bank—a 17,000-square-foot historic building housing Rebuild Foundation’s contemporary art and experimental archival program on Chicago’s South Side—has hosted free exhibitions, screenings, performances, live recordings, artist retreats, artistic and archival residencies, workshops and classes in partnership with local and globally-renown artists over the past decade.
