kai hsuan chang

Kai-Hsuan Chang (Paiwan name: Ku-yi) is a Paiwan Indigenous artist from Taiwan, currently based in London and pursuing an MA Fine Art at Chelsea College of Arts, UAL. His practice spans contemporary wood sculpture, moving-image installation, and kinetic media, exploring how land, memory, and Indigenous identity are shaped—and continually reshaped—within contemporary structures of power.

He received First Prize at the Taiwan Craft Awardduring the 2019 Taiwan Contemporary Craft Exhibition, which subsequently toured across Taiwan. His craft background has equipped him with a refined sensitivity to materials, precise technical execution, and a steady, methodical approach to making.

As his practice developed, he began to move beyond the framework of traditional craft materials, expanding into more conceptual and research-driven approaches that explore identity, land politics, and Indigenous visibility. In recent years, his work has centredon the rapid transformation of Indigenous land in Taiwan, particularly under the pressures of renewable energy development.

His 2024–2025 project Seventh Tribemarks a significant shift in his practice, examining cultural narratives, land politics, and the tensions between tradition and contemporary structures of power. The work was exhibited in 2025 at the YilanNational Art Museum in Taiwan.

He continues to build a dialogue between ancestral memory and contemporary technology, reflecting on the complex entanglements of landscape, identity, and power.