Abigail Chang is an artist, architect and critic at Yale School of Architecture. Her multidisciplinary practice is based in New York City and responds to currents in contemporary culture. Her work is interested in subtle encounters that are driven by material qualities, details and framing devices in the built environment.

Chang is the 2026 Rotch Travelling Scholar and received the Chicago Architectural Club’s Emerging Visions award in 2023. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale (Deserts, 2019), Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism (Skeuomorphic Screens, 2021), Design Museum of Chicago (Display Window, 2023), Chicago Architecture Biennial (Liquid Glass, 2025), and as a solo exhibition at Volume Gallery (Reflections of a Room, 2022). Her writing (“Screen Time,” “Double Vision,” “Reflection: Literal and Phenomenal”) and research have been supported by UIC, YSOA, the Mark Foster Gage Foundation and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

Prior to starting her practice, Chang lived and worked in Los Angeles, Chicago, New York, Tokyo and Basel at firms including Norman Kelley, SO–IL and Herzog & de Meuron. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Architectural Studies from UCLA with distinction, and a Masters in Architecture from Harvard University Graduate School of Design, where she was awarded the Takenaka Fellowship. She is a registered architect in Illinois and New York, and is represented by Volume Gallery.