Dear all,
gdm and the Tang Chang's Estate are pleased to present the first solo exhibition of Tang Chang’s landscape works in Hong Kong, on view from 4 June to 29 August 2026.
Curated by art historian Sheryl Gwee, Into the Heart-Mind 心鏡之景 brings together a focused selection of Tang Chang’s works on paper from the 1960s to the 1980s, highlighting his distinctive engagement with landscape, abstraction, and inner contemplation.
Sheryl Gwee is a former researcher at the Tang Chang Private Museum, where she helped establish the museum’s archive, database, and inventory systems. She currently serves as an Adjunct Researcher at the museum.
📅 Opening Reception: 4 June 2026, 4–7 PM
📍 gdm Hong Kong
1/F, 11 Duddell Street, Central, Hong Kong
We warmly invite you to join us in celebrating the legacy of Tang Chang.
Best regards,
The Tang Chang's Estate
Tang Chang (1934–1990), also known as Chang Sae‑tang (จ่าง แซ่ตั้ง), was a self‑taught Thai‑Chinese artist and poet who shattered the conventions of Thai modernism. Born into Bangkok’s Chinese diaspora, his education was cut short by war, yet this rupture became the ground for radical independence. Without institutional training, he forged a practice that fused calligraphy, abstraction, and poetry into a language of defiance and reflection, painting with his body—fingers, hands, and gestures pressed directly into canvas—to transform ink into rhythm, urgency, and spiritual search.