Amy Chang, M.A.

Amy Y.T. Chang is a PhD Candidate in the History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University, and the 2024—2026 Samuel H. Kress Foundation Institutional Fellow at the Bibliotheca Hertziana. She works on the art and architecture of the Spanish Empire, particularly on the rise of stylistic censorship and architectural regulation, and the idea of regional and national styles from the 16th—18th centuries. Her research focus while in Rome is on the construction and reception of the ‘Spanish Islamic’ in Andalusia and the Iberian Indo-Pacific; the migration and transformation of Spanish and Italian Baroque architectures in Asia; and the influence of Indo-Pacific architectures and environments on Spanish imperial architectural thought, environmental engineering, and territorialization of the sea. She also writes on the circulations of painting and cross-cultural semiotics in the Spanish Empire, spe-cifically in portraiture and still life.

Amy has recently co-curated exhibitions at Dumbarton Oaks in Washington DC, and the New York Botanical Garden. These works and the associated international conference and programming she organized at the New York Botanical Garden and Harvard University Asia Center focus on the intersec-tion of botanical trade and art history in the liquid cultures of the Red Sea and Indian Ocean, regard-ing which she is co-editor of a forthcoming edited volume. Her writing has appeared in exhibition catalouges for the Spanish Embassy in Washington, DC and the Prado Museum in Madrid (with exhibition travel to the Ayala Museum in Manila and the National Gallery of Singapore); and in the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians.

Mitgliedschaften

• Society for Iberian Global Art (SIGA), Executive Board
• Stimulant Seas: Red Sea & Indian Ocean Research Group, Executive Board