Born in 1993, Carina Chang is a first-generation Chinese American painter based in New York. Her parents immigrated from Hong Kong and the Dominican Republic, and she was raised between the USA and Hong Kong. Her work examines the dysphoria around her cultural identity and self-identity. The figurative paintings surrounds the vulnerable and complex of issues of self-image, exotication, and belonging. The paintings seek to question memory to understand generational trauma. She confronts the unreliable narrator and challenges figuration in a Western world by representing her body .