Flatfile drawer with photogravure from Michael Baastrup Chang's work visit at Crown Point Press in 2013.

Timeline

1973

Born — Skanderborg, Denmark

1991–1993

Apprenticeship in commercial draftsmanship — three years

1993

Moves — to Aarhus, Denmark; subsequently to London, UK

1994–1995

Studies in visual art — Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, London, UK — one year

Grant — ADAR Students Grant, The Borough of Westminster, London, UK

Study Support — Danish State Educational Grant and Loan Scheme Agency

1995

Moves — returns to Aarhus, Denmark

Begins painting — figurative painting; trial-and-error period (1995–2007)

2001

Moves — to Copenhagen, Denmark

2005

Self-study — philosophy and art history

Self-study — anatomy, with access to the Department of Macroscopic Anatomy, Panum Institute, Copenhagen, August

2006

Self-study — anatomy, with access to the Department of Macroscopic Anatomy, Panum Institute, Copenhagen, August

2007

Stops painting figuratively — destroys final figurative painting

2008

Debut Exhibition4 Grades of Reality, Copenhagen, 1 May

Publication4 Grades of Reality

ScreeningsPregnant, South Africa and US

Independent ExhibitionMonochromes and Short Wave Paintings, Frederiksgade 2, Aarhus

PublicationMonochromes and Short Wave Paintings

2009

Work visit — Aquatint, hard ground and soft ground, Crown Point Press, US, 2 weeks

Grant — Travel Grant, Danish Arts Foundation

Group ExhibitionsThe Vitruvian Woman, Italy and Sweden; At the Zenith, Serbia; Anonymous Drawings, Germany; Fragments, US

CollaborationFragments with Marty McCutcheon, US

Independent ExhibitionsRejected, Strandgade 10, Copenhagen; Pictures of Nothing, Formverk, Eskilstuna, Sweden

PublicationRejected

ScreeningsPregnant and Espresso, ECVP Vol. 1; US, Brazil, Canada, Germany and Italy; Water Preserves, US

2010

Solo ExhibitionThe Man Without Qualities, CDS Art and Visibility, Copenhagen

PublicationThe Man Without Qualities

CollaborationStories of the Sun God with Christy Walsh, US

PerformanceStories of the Sun God with Christy Walsh, Triskelion Arts, US

Grant — Travel Grant, Danish Arts Foundation

ScreeningsInterfaces and Transformation, ECVP Vol. 2, France, UK and Brazil

2011

Solo ExhibitionThe Journeyman, Cath Alexandrine Danneskiold-Samsøe Gallery, Copenhagen

PublicationsThe Journeyman; Interferens

Work visits — Aquatint, Danish Art Workshops, 4 weeks; Audio/Visual Experimental Installation, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, US, 1 week

Public funding — New York State Council on the Arts’ Decentralization Program, administered by The ARTS Council of the Finger Lakes, for Fragments, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, US

Group ExhibitionFragments, with Jan Kather and Marty McCutcheon, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, US

Talk — Artist Talk, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, US

2012

Solo ExhibitionInfinity Loop and Images of Eggs, with Mette Ussing, Cath Alexandrine Danneskiold-Samsøe Gallery, Copenhagen

PublicationInfinity Loop and Images of Eggs

Work visit — Aquatint, Danish Art Workshops, Copenhagen, 3 weeks

Group ExhibitionsThe Postal-Collage Project No. 1, with Marty McCutcheon, US

ActivityVideo Dia Loghi, curated by LOOP, Velan Gallery, Italy

ScreeningsNo Manifesto, Netherlands, France, UK, Germany, Italy and US

2013

Work visit — Photogravure, Crown Point Press, US, 2 weeks

Workshop — Pinhole Camera Workshop, Kulturskolerne, Hellerup, 8–9 August

2014

Group ExhibitionThe Postal-Collage Project No. 2, with Marty McCutcheon, US

ScreeningY, Transborda – Overflow, Portugal

2015

Group ExhibitionAnonymous Drawings, Germany

Independent ExhibitionThe Journeyman (Revisited), staged by the art club of the Royal Danish Library, Copenhagen

ScreeningPairings, Healdsburg Center for the Arts, US

2016

Solo ExhibitionLife After Ninety, Galleri Weinberger, Copenhagen

Group ExhibitionsAnonymous Drawings, Italy and Germany

2020

Solo ExhibitionColours Collected From a Childhood, Galleri Weinberger Schandorff, Copenhagen

Group ExhibitionThe Postal-Collage Project No. 9, with Marty McCutcheon, US

Work visit — Monoprints, Printers Proof, Copenhagen, 3 weeks

TV Feature — paintings, drawings and prints featured in Ulven kommer, (Cry Wolf), DR1

2021

Pop-Up ShowMichael Baastrup Chang, c/o Galleri Weinberger Schandorff, Hellerup, Denmark

2022

Solo ExhibitionGraphite, Galleri Weinberger Schandorff, Copenhagen

Art Fairs — c/o Galleri Weinberger Schandorff, Enter Art Fair, Copenhagen, 25–28 August; Art Herning, MCH Messecenter, Herning, 6–8 May

2023

Group ExhibitionArtwork Orange, Galleri Weinberger Schandorff, Copenhagen

Work visit — spitbite, Printers Proof, Copenhagen, 1 week

Art Fair — c/o Galleri Weinberger Schandorff, Art Herning, MCH Messecenter, Herning, 27–29 Jan

2025

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