Teng-Yuan Chang was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1983 and lives and works in Taipei. He received his MFA from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts at Tainan National University of the Arts in 2011. His practice — spanning painting, animated installation, sculpture, and mixed media — centers on Parrotman, a fictional alien species conducting an “archaeology of the apocalypse.” Through this recurring figure, Chang constructs a deadpan, often absurdist inventory of the objects, rituals, and anxieties that define human civilization — treating the present as a ruin already waiting to be excavated. The work operates at the boundary between the real and the fictional, where pop iconography, art historical reference, and doomsday mythology converge. Chang has presented solo exhibitions in Taipei, Osaka, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, Madrid, and Paris, and has participated in the Taipei Biennial (2016) and the Taiwan Biennial (2020). His most recent solo exhibition, Everything Has A Cute Face, was presented at Gallery Nomart, Osaka, in June 2026. His work is held in the collections of the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, the Taiwan Art Bank, and MOCA OLIVE, Shodoshima, Japan.
Parrot Mimicry – Counting Sheep features Parrotman, a fictional character created by the artist Teng-Yuan Chang. They come from the future and are deeply curious about human civilization. Much like a parrot mimics human speech, they imitate all kinds of human behavior. In this work, the Parrotman have noticed a strange human habit: when people cannot fall asleep, they count sheep to help themselves drift off. So, the Parrotman begin counting sheep too. But they seem to have misunderstood something. They are convinced that while counting sheep, you also have to imitate a sheep, and only then will it work even better...
