Sara Chang Yan was born in 1982. She lives and works between Lisbon, where she was born, and the Azores. Sara graduated in Architecture from the Faculty of Architecture of the University of Lisbon, and studied drawing at Ar.Co – Centro de Arte & Comunicação Visual. In 2015, she was awarded the Visual Arts Prize for Young Creators, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. In 2016, she was selected to participate in the Open Sessions 2016-2017 at The Drawing Center in New York. In 2024, Galeria Madragoa received the Focus Stand Prize for the presentation of Sara Chang Yan's work at Frieze New York.
