Leia S. Chang (they/them) is an artist, organizer, and creative technologist exploring unusual materiality and embodied identity. With a strong command over creative fabrication, Leia channels their perspective as a second-generation Chinese-American into interactive installations, poetic texts, and tangible multi-media objects made of wood, resin, and found materials. Their work often integrates digital media into physical forms with the aim of spotlighting the connection between memory, identity, and storytelling.
Leia is currently an exhibit developer at the Exploratorium in San Francisco. Their work has been shown at the likes of La Mama’s CultureHub, theBlanc Art Space, the Gray Area SF and Resistor NYC. They organize creative communities and facilitate workshops on making-as-art. Leia holds an MPS from NYU ITP, and a BS in Computer Science from Cal Poly SLO.
Currently thinking about ... Fidget Camp 2025, fiber art and woven material, typeknitting, what is a body, plot田, sunlight, this website.
Once, a long time ago, a professor looked at a todo list I'd made for the day, and called it the best poem he'd read all week.
also seen at ...
Shows
- CultureHub Re-Fest | NYC La Mama - 2025
- Bart Basel | SF - 2024
- Incubator Artists Show | Gray Area - 2023
- Words to Remember By, a solo show | Studio 45 - 2023
- After the Imagination | NYC resistor - 2023
- Co-Curator Useless Machines | Blanc Gallery - 2023
- Sell Out Art Show | SYZYGY SF - 2022
Teaching/Facilitating
- Organizer FidgetCamp | MadSci SF - 2024-2025
- Creative Code & Design Technology Teacher | Lick Wilmerding HS - 2023-2024
- Graduate Assistant Useless Machines (Blair Simmons) | NYU IMA - 2023
- Graduate Assistant Digital Fabrication (Phil Caridi) | NYU IMA - 2022
- Facilitator Feedback Collective | NYU ITP - 2022-23
Guest
- Panelist Power of Storytelling | Lick Wilmerding HS - 2025
- Critic IMA Capstone (Blair Simmons) | NYU IMA - 2025
- Critic ITP Thesis | NYU TIP - 2025
- Speaker at tiat 5 & 6 | SF - 2023
- Speaker for Geopositioning Genealogy (Tanika I. Williams) | NYU IMA - 2023
- Critic Largescale Kinetic Sculptures (Phil Caridi) | NYU IMA - 2023
Mentions
- web~sites mentioned in Naive Weekly as a wayside flower
- From Arrangement to Engagement: shuang’s Curation as Art Practice - 2025
- SPAMtember | All St Gallery - 2023
- ITP Instagram project spotlight - 2023
- Adjacent Issue 10: endoscope - 2023
-last updated May 2025-