From Taiwan to California, through the streets of a post punk-influenced Los Angeles, to the whimsical halls of The Walt Disney Company, professional graphic designer Shirleen Chang has spent the better part of her existence searching for life’s meaning through the transitory and mercurial medium of art. Her unique worldview and atypical adventures built an enduring and undeniably uncanny perspective on her approach to her process.

Within most of her works, Chang uses flowing, kinetic line-forms and ink to convey a real-world representation of the illusory and fantastic that so often describes the unconscious mind. Much like the surrealist artists of the 20th century, Chang’s work features the element of surprise, unexpected juxtapositions and non-sequitur images of peculiar, illogical scenes with visual precision, creating strange creatures from seemingly everyday objects. She explores themes of love, childhood innocence, and spirituality in several of her pieces. Chang also strives to combine her Eastern Asian cultural influences with the Western art aesthetic of her adopted home. The result often is a unique fusion of style that invokes a cosmopolitan sense of experience and wonder.

Shirleen Chang (b. 1968) immigrated from Taipei, Taiwan 45 years ago with her family. Growing up primarily in Los Angeles, Chang developed a love of art early in life, and spent time mastering several creative media including ink, pencil work, illustration, and graphic design. Chang earned her BA in Visual Communications from Art Institute of Southern California at Laguna Beach, California and soon after started her own studio in Santa Monica, before becoming a part of The Walt Disney Company as the Senior Design Manager of Marketing Design for Disney Branded Television.