David Jang

Both an artist and an inventor, David B. Jang is known for his imaginative kinetic installations, which employ hacked consumer electronics and subverted household appliances. These vestiges of technology, with their life’s instructions literally coded into their motherboards, are the building blocks of Jang’s practice. By deconstructing, re-programming, and reconstituting industrial and commercial castoffs, Jang creates immersive works.

Ultimately, Jang’s work is about survival, or what he refers to as “life tactics.” For him, survival requires the transformation and maintenance of continuous order, and order mean harnessing energy. But because energy and matter cannot be destroyed, only transformed, his works engage in this reality by maintaining a constant state of motion, transforming and transferring themselves over time. A process in which the work is never realized in its final form, but just like our body, is only continuously progressing.
He is interested in things that can set in a mode of constant production and form-making, that is, ordering, and thus in a constant state of meaning creation. This meaning generation is connected to the human compulsion to produce forms which are connected to the technological system o...

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)
2021 Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2020 Robert and Frances Fullerton Museum of Art, San Bernardino, CA
2019 Gwangju Design Biennale, Gwangju, South Korea
2019 Angeli Art Museum, South Korea
2019 Ahha Tulsa Museum, Tulsa, Oklahoma
2019 Art Gwangju 19, Gwangju, South Korea
2019 Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Kellogg University Art Gallery (Cal Poly), Pomona, CA
2018 Art Plus Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2018 Gallery Western, Los Angeles, CA
2017 LAX International airport, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Boston Court, Pasadena, CA
2017 Museum of Art and History (MOAH), Lancaster, CA
2016 Proxy Place Gallery, Chatsworth, CA
2016 Gallery 825 (LAAA), Los Angeles, CA
2016 Gallery on Wade, Toronto, Canada
2015 The Huntley Gallery (Cal Poly), Pomona, CA
2015 TUB Gallery, Miami, FL
2014 Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2014 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG), Los Angeles, CA
2014 LA Art Show, Los Angeles, CA
2013 Gallery 825 (LAAA), Los Angeles, CA
2013 Fullerton College Art Gallery (Three Person), Fullerton, CA
2013 Downtown Art Center Gallery (DAC), Los Angeles, CA
2012 Gallery 825 (LAAA), Los Angeles, CA
2012 Palos Verdes Art Center, Rolling Hills Estates, C...