Fractured Reflections | May 9- 22, 2026

Stella Chang is an abstract figurative artist whose work grows from the places where identity fractures and refuses to stay broken. She was born in San Jose, California and shaped by a transnational upbringing across the U.S., Taiwan, and Canada; always living between cultures, between languages, between versions of herself. Through painting, mixed media, and installation, she layers watercolor, alcohol ink, acrylic, glass, and aluminum into visual landscapes that ask: what remains of the self after it has been taken apart, and what can be built from what survives?

In 2021, lupus arrived like a rupture, dismantling her body and, with it, every quiet certainty she had built around who she was. To watch your own body become unfamiliar is a particular kind of grief; not of losing someone else, but of losing the version of yourself you thought was permanent. She rebuilt without a blueprint, not backward into what she was, but forward into something she could not yet see. That journey is the heartbeat of everything she makes; not to restore what was lost, but to discover what becomes possible after the breaking, to tend, with patience and with paint, to what grows through the cracks.

Stella Chang holds a BFA from New York University and lives and works in New Jersey. She is the recipient of the 2025–2026 Individual Artist Fellowship from the Jersey City Arts Council and accepted into 2026 IN 7 Experimental Video Art Residency. Her work is licensed internationally through Rosenstiels, a UK-based fine art publisher, and she serves as Chair of the Junior & Scholarship Committee at New York's historic Salmagundi Art Club. She will begin a Teaching Artist Residency at Glassroots Newark Glass Art Center in Fall 2026.

Her paintings were featured in the 2025 Newark Arts Festival at the Paul Robeson Galleries in Newark. In 2026, she presents two solo exhibitions: A Body, A Garden, A Mind at NJPAC's Nico Kitchen & Bar in partnership with Newark Arts, and Fractured Reflections at IMUR Gallery in Jersey City, supported by her Individual Artist Fellowship and IN 7 Experimental Video Art Residency.