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Sidewalk Psychiatry

Candy spends a lot of time walking and thinking. Walking has become a therapeutic time for her to simmer on her day and the things going on in her life. Pedestrians in the city often find themselves...

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Recovery Guide & Park

As part of Global Studio, Candy and international students worked with a community group in Vancouver to learn, exchange knowledge, and help facilitate their needs. Vancouver has the first safe...

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Restroom Map Notepad

Inspired by Gawker’s Subway Smells Map, Candy wondered if there was a way to alleviate some of New York City’s pungent odors. After using GIS to map out the location of semi-public restrooms in...

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Cripplebush Ghost Tour

What if you could easily learn some local history as you passed by a place? Csndy collaborated with Sarah Williams, Jennifer Kaminsky, Catherine Herdlick, Amanda Huron, and Michael Wilkerson to create...

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Pedestrian Timeline

To bring local history to the streets, Candy stenciled 20 landmark events in the history of Governors Island along a path on Governors island. From a bucolic nutfest to a military base to a future...

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Maps for Airports

Flying from one airport to another can often feel like quantum leaps through space and time. To provide a context for travelers, Candy created this map for the Illuminators public art exhibit at...

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Community Chalkboards

As part of Global Studio, Candy and international students worked with a community group in Johannesburg to learn, exchange knowledge, and help facilitate their needs. One day a little girl was lost in...

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Post-it Notes for Neighbors

It’s a question many residents wonder: how much are my neighbors paying for their places? Post-it Notes for Neighbors is an interactive installation that helps demystify the topic by inviting people to...

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A Nice Place for a Tree

New York City’s Chinatown was Candy’s home for many years and it is a land of good food, colorful shops, and fresh produce. It is also a land of three trees in a ten-block radius. To jump-start the...

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Awesome Street Art in Prague

Prague  

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Neighbor Doorknob Hanger

Thanks to good neighbors, Candy has shared a corkscrew, a ladder, an inflatable bed, an air pump, chairs, a bike, wi-fi, books, a drill, an iron, professional studio lights, a large pot, wine, and...

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You Make Me Feel So Mahtava

It was one of the first words I learned in Finland: mahtava. Finnish for “awesome”. It worked itself into my daily vocabulary because it does things that “awesome” never can, letting you exhale and...

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Mardi Gras in the Marigny

Goats, ballerinas, bananas, and kings! We all marched the streets to the misfit drum and turned our neighborhood into a Fellini film.

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After Hours

Barcelona

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It’s Good To Be Here

New Orleans. Someone’s blowing a trumpet on one corner, someone’s building a mystery space machine on the other, and across the street by a boarded-up building someone’s painting their shotgun house...

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I Wish This Was

I Wish This Was was inspired by vacant storefronts. There are many where Candy lives in New Orleans. There are also many people who need and want things. Who knows a place better than the people who...

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Mobile Cornucopia

Candy worked with Hypothetical Development, a public art project that creates signs depicting fanciful futures for neglected buildings in New Orleans. The renderings, created by different artists, are...

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Time and Collection

New York City (three blocks from my old apartment in Chinatown) Oxford Helsinki Singapore Johor Bahru Lima, Ohio New Orleans As a complement to Time and Erosion…

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Neighborland

Who knows a place better than the people who live and work there – we know what businesses and services we need, and we know what would make our neighborhoods more ours. How can we easily share and...

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The Sticker of the Week

New Orleans

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Looking for Love Again

Candy was commissioned by the Alaska Design Forum to create a public art project on the tallest building in Fairbanks. The Polaris Building was once an apartment complex, then a hotel, and now it’s...

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Before I Die

It’s easy to get caught up in the day-to-day and forget what really matters to you. After I lost someone I loved very much, I thought about death a lot. This helped clarify my life, the people I want...

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Career Path

As part of Turku, Finland’s 2011 European Capital of Culture events, Candy was commissioned to create a public art project near the University of Turku. There is a pedestrian/bike path nicknamed...

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A Tear of Petrol in Your Eye

Carhenge, Nebraska “A tear of petrol is in your eye. The hand brake penetrates your thigh. Quick – let’s make love before you die.” – The Normal

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The End of the First Before I Die Wall

After seven months, the original Before I Die wall in my neighborhood in New Orleans has come to an end. The house will become a home again thanks to new owners. We painted over the wall and stenciled...

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Before I Die in Brooklyn

Video of TweetBoogie by Yak Films. Youtube video here.

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The Most Important Encounter

City Creek Park by Stephen Goldsmith, Salt Lake City “The most important encounter in life is the encounter with oneself.” – Yves Saint Laurent  

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Confessions

As they say, what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but what if we could share with full discretion? Confessions is a public art project that invites people to anonymously share their confessions and...

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How Well We Have Loved

Public art by Jetsonorama in the deserts of Arizona “We recognize our own mortality, and we are reminded that in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or...

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Before I Die, the book

After losing someone she loved, artist Candy Chang painted the side of an abandoned house in her neighborhood in New Orleans with chalkboard paint and stenciled the sentence, “Before I die I want to...

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Before I Die at the Ogden Museum in New Orleans

Ogden Museum, New Orleans Candy created a big Before I Die wall on the exterior of the Ogden Museum in downtown New Orleans for the Art for Arts’ Sake event Saturday October 5, 2013. It’s one of the...

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Book Launch Party at The Ogden Museum in New Orleans

The Before I Die book comes out November 5, 2013 and the book launch party will be at the Ogden Museum (925 Camp St) in downtown New Orleans on Thursday November 7 from 6-7pm. Come join Candy in the...

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