Zoila Coc-Chang
Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Arts
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 has held residencies and fellowships at STPI Creative Workshop & Gallery in Singapore and A.I.R Gallery (Brooklyn, NY). She will be a Practitioner Fellow with Brown University's Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity for Spring 2026. She has taught Visual Arts at Brown University and Yale University.
Recent and Upcoming Courses
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The purpose of this course is to understand and use drawing as a daily problem-solving practice throughout the semester. This course will start off with an emphasis on the elements of visual arts like composition, values, and form through (mainly) observational drawing and collaboration. Later it shifts to projects that serve to open ideas around the drawing process so that it can be used to explore and develop self-defined subject matter. Special attention will be paid to mark-making and some material exploration to move from observational drawing to working from imagination through collage, collaboration, writing and more. Regardless of your area of study, all students will be asked to find their own use and inspiration for drawing throughout the semester. Keywords: Drawing, Foundations, Studio Art, Color, Mark-Making
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Light. Darks. Colors. Textures-they don't just touch, they dance in a ritual to reveal themselves. This studio course is structured to be an artistic and intellectual exploration on how painting (formally and expansively) can hold time whether that be metaphorically, conceptually or within the art-making process itself. By pairing technical exercises to conceptual ideas and explorations, we will consider and explore time as a material, duration, and repetition. Through readings, discussions, class presentations, haiku writing, and a lot of making (including plein-air, collage, and a semester long subject matter of choice), students will engage with a constellation of perspectives and moments in time to further develop language and create a body of work that reflects on their own interest and understanding of time while thinking about painting expansively. Keywords: Painting, Studio Art, Time, Cyclical, Collage