The MassArt Graduate Programs and MFA Fine Arts Low-Residency are thrilled to welcome Zoila Andrea Coc-Chang as the keynote guest speaker of the MFA Summer 2025 Lecture Series. Coc-Chang will present a visiting artist talk in the Design and Media Center Lecture Hall on Thursday, July 24 at 4:00pm, and is the closing lecture of the series. 

Zoila Andrea Coc-Chang is a Chinese-Guatemalan mixed-media artist and educator from Miami. Her work interrogates the complexities and intimacies between and within Asia and the Americas to not only reveal and work through the nuances of where and when these geographies collide, but in hope of forging new possibilities for existing beyond histories of struggle and territorially-bounded cultural representations. 

Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including: 193 Gallery (Paris, FR and Venice, IT), ArtNexus Space (Miami, FL), WhiteBox (New York, NY), Jamestown Art Center (Jamestown, RI), XXIII Bienal de Arte Paiz Guatemala (GUA), The Arsenal at Central Park (New York, NY), Jeffrey Deitch (New York, NY), Lycoming College Art Gallery (Williamstown, PA), Museum of Fine Arts Boston (MA), the Pao Arts Center in Chinatown Boston (MA) and more.

Coc-Chang holds an MFA in Painting & Printmaking from Yale School of Art and a BA in Studio Art and Education Studies from Brandeis University. She completed an apprenticeship at STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery in Singapore and was an artist fellow at A.I.R Gallery in New York in 2022-23. Currently she is a Lecturer in Visual Arts at Brown University and Yale University.

Questions? Contact gradprogram@massart.edu.

This event is free and open to public.

Image detail: Zoila Andrea Coc-Chang, Traga Luz, 2025