Through Rivers by Shea Chang and Joanne Pang

Working through expanded notions of drawing, Through Rivers is a collaborative project between Shea Chang and Joanne Pang, with an interest to capture the immediacy and infinite sense of time and space. The process involves sending digital scans of drawings to one another, followed by creating new layers of drawings on top of the original layer. Through subtraction/addition and working in analog and digital methods, the drawings are akin to having an open dialogue with one another, communicating through abstraction and play.

About Joanne Pang

Joanne Pang explores the relationships between body, memory and space through site-specific installations, paintings and drawings. She graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Communication at The School of Arts, Design and Media in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore and a Masters of Fine Art at The Royal Danish Art Academy, Charlottenburg sculpture department, in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Her first solo exhibition was held at a void deck in Singapore (2009). She has participated in group shows in Sinagapore Art Museum (2012), 10th International Poster Triennial in Toyama, Japan (2012), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2013), Copenhagen Artweek (2015), Kilometre of Sculpture, Rakvere, Estonia (2016) and Shiryaevo 9TH Biennale of Contemporary Art in Russia (2016). Recent exhibitions include a solo show at Yavuz Gallery (2021) and a group show at Taksu Gallery (2018), Chan+Hori Contemporary, Singapore (2018) and Institute of Contemporary Singapore (2022).

Joanne Pang is a recipient of numerous awards art and design awards such as Singapore Young Photography Award (2012), Singapore Design Awards (2012) and 2018 UOB Painting of the Year(Singapore), Established Artist Category, Gold Award.

Joanne Pang is represented by Yavuz Gallery, Singapore and is a lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore. In 2019, she founded prypress, an independent publishing arm and project space in Singapore, publishing limited edition zines and ephemera.

About Shea Chang

Shea Chang is a Vancouver-born visual artist known for her solo and collaborative projects in Canada and abroad. She studied Fine Arts at Langara College and completed her Bachelor of Design in Illustration at OCAD University. Chang received the Joseph A. Bombardier Scholarship Award during her MFA in Visual Art at York University and was recently awarded the Samuel Sarick Purchase Prize. She currently works as an Assistant Professor of Illustration at OCAD University and operates from her studio in Hamilton, Ontario.

Her interdisciplinary practice combines drawing, painting, printmaking, and sculpture to explore the complexities of identity, particularly related to race, gender, and sexuality. Informed by her own multi-racial and queer identities, Chang creates speculative and haunting visual languages to illuminate the hidden tensions of social, technological, and ecological thresholds within post-industrial landscapes.