Area Chair 2012- Present , Symposium Chair, Parliamentarian 2021 – Present
David’s Bio:
David Y. Chang is Frost Professor of Art at Florida International University. Classically trained in the Beaux-Arts tradition, his education includes the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux–Arts, Paris, France, the Cambridge University, England, the Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai, China, and Florida International University in the United States.
As an award-winning artist and professor, David Chang’s paintings have been collected internationally. He has been teaching classical drawing and painting, visual arts education theories and practices, as well as visual analysis for over three decades.
Artist Statement:
Art comes from life and transcends it as it captures the transitory moments in nature through personal temperament. Such creative process manifests the true spirit of my joie de vivre.
Selected Art Awards:
2011 2nd Place, Florida Artists Group Exhibition, Cornell Museum of Art & American Culture,
West Palm Beach, Florida
2002 Best of Show, Florida Professional Art Exhibition, Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
2001 Best of Show, Florida Professional Art Exhibition, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Florida
1992 Best of Show, Miami Juried Art Exhibition, Omni Art Space Gallery, Miami, Florida
Selected Teaching Awards:
2007 Distinguished Service in Art Education Award, Florida Art Education Association
2007 Jackie Hinchy-Cipes Art Education Award,
Miami-Dade County Art Education Association
2002 Florida Higher Education Art Educator of the Year Award, Florida Art Education Association
1994 Professor of the Year Award,
Florida International University
1993ACE Scholar Award, Florida Department of
Education Arts for a Complete Education Program
Selected Exhibitions:
2013, 2012 Painting in the Gardens Exhibition,
GC Art Gallery, Miami, FL
2013 Florida Professional Art Educators Exhibition, Ormond Beach Museum of Art, Ormond Beach, FL
2011 Florida Artists Group Exhibition, Cornell
Museum of Art & American Culture, West Palm Beach, FL
2012, 2011, 1998 – Florida Professional Art Educators Exhibition, St. Petersburg Museum of Art,
St. Petersburg, FL
2010 National Juried Art Exhibition, Artisans Gallery,
Baltimore, MD
2009, 2008 National Juried Art Exhibition at
the Butler Art Gallery, Sarasota, FL
2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006 – Painting in the Gardens Exhibition, Borders Art Gallery, Miami, FL
2010, 2009, 2008, 2007 – International Education Art Exhibition, GC Art Gallery, FIU
2006 Florida Professional Art Exhibition, Modis Art Gallery,
2005 Florida Professional Art Exhibition,
Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA), FL
2003, 2002, 1997 Florida Professional Art Exhibition,
Orlando Museum of Art, FL
2001 Florida Professional Art Exhibition, Fort Lauderdale
Museum of Art, FL
2000 Florida Professional Art Exhibition,
Ritz Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL
2000 South Florida Professional Art Exhibition,
Coral Gables, FL
2000 Juried Art Exhibition, Wall Street Institute Art Gallery
2000 Tropical Art Exhibition, Fairchild Tropical
Garden Gallery
1999 Miami Juried Art Exhibition DASH Art Gallery, Miami, FL
1998 Painting in the Garden Exhibition, Art Works Gallery, Miami, FL
1996 Florida Juried Art Exhibition, University of South
Florida Art Museum
1994 Florida Juried Art Exhibition, Boca Raton Art Museum,
Boca Raton, FL
1994 Solo Exhibition, Jacksonville University Art Museum,
Jacksonville, FL
1994 Solo Exhibition, Foster-Tanner Art Gallery,
Tallahassee, FL
1993 Florida Juried Art Exhibition at the Boca Museum of
Art, Boca Raton, FL
1993 Florida Meritorious Art Exhibition, New World School
of Art Gallery, Miami, FL
1993 Palm Beach Juried Painting Exhibition, Sino Art Gallery,
West Palm Beach, FL
1992 Florida Juried Art Exhibition, Ormond Beach Museum
of Art, Ormond Beach, FL
1992 Miami Juried Art Exhibition, Omni Art Space Gallery,
Miami, FL
1992 Solo Exhibition, Florida International University Gallery,
Miami, FL
1991 Florida Juried Art Exhibition, Harmon Meek
Gallery, Naples, FL
1989 Solo Exhibition and Thirty-Minute Artist Interview on
Miami Television – Channel 17
1986 Solo Exhibition, Florida International University Gallery,
Miami, FL
Selected Commissions and Collections:
Debbie Smith Collection, Cambridge University, England
Dr. Alexander-Edynak, Coconut Grove, FL
Dr. and Mrs. Sanford Ziff Education Building and Colonnades, Florida International University
Dr. Herbert Wertheim, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine
Elaine Grubair Collection, Miami, FL
Founding Doctors, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine, Florida International University
Frost Art Museum Collection, Florida International University
Hong Kong WH Investment Group, Hong Kong.
James Eddie Collection, Brighton, England
Karen Pack Collection, Switzerland
Kentucky Art Association, Kentucky
Mary Ann Wolfe for the dedication of the Mary Ann Wolfe Theatre, North Miami
Mayor Pagliani, City Hall of Parkland, FL
Mount Sinai Hospital, Miami Beach, FL
New York Life
Patricia and Phillip Frost Collection, Chair, Smithsonian National Art Gallery Collections
Pennsylvania State University, PA
President Bob McCabe, Miami Dade Community College Miami Dade Community College
President Eduardo Padron, Miami-Dade College
President Gregory Wolf, Florida International University
President Kenneth Williams, Florida Atlantic University and Miami Dade Community College
President Modesto Maidique, Florida International University
Savoir Fair Collection, Paris, France
Senator Bob Graham, US Senate
Sennelier Collection, Paris, France
Shanghai Academy of Fine Arts, Shanghai, China
Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China
Simon Daro Dawidowicz Collection, Miami Beach, FL
Southeast Missouri University
Southwest Truck Insurance Company, Dallas, TX
Stanford University, CA
UCLA Arts Council, Los Angeles, CA
University of Toronto, Canada