Chang received her degree from the University of California, San Diego in 1994. Her work has been exhibited nationwide and internationally at such institutions as the Guggenheim Museum in New York; the New Museum in New York; BAK- basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, NL, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles; Fri-Art Centre d'Art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland; Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester, England; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; the Hamburg Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2008 Chang was nominated for the Hugo Boss Prize and in 2009 was named the Guna S. Mundheim Fellow of Visual Arts at the American Academy in Berlin. She is a 2014 recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship and is currently exhibiting her video installation Flotsam Jetsam (2007), a collaboration with David Kelley, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.