Cheng-Lin Chang is an Associate Professor and Director of the Graduate Institute of Arts Management and Entrepreneurship at National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU), Taiwan, where he also serves as Director of the Art Market Research Center. His academic fields and areas of expertise include art market studies, art asset management, museum studies, curatorial practice, and related fields.

He received his PhD in Sociology of Art from the Department of Sociology at Tunghai University, Taiwan, and is also a PhD candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Additionally, he conducted doctoral research in Chinese contemporary art at the School of Asian Studies, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom, and subsequently completed his postdoctoral research at the Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society (LUCAS), Leiden University, the Netherlands.

His principal research interests include art market studies, art asset management, art industry theory and practice, and modern and contemporary Chinese art. His work examines the institutional development of art markets and art industries, the financialization and assetization of art, and contemporary curatorial practice. In recent years, his research has expanded to encompass ethnic representation, Hakka culture, and cultural entrepreneurship. His scholarship draws on arts management, cultural economics, art history, and sociology, with particular attention to Taiwan, China, and the wider Chinese-speaking art world.

Before joining NSYSU, Chang was Professor at the School of Arts Management and Education at the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing, where he also served as Head of the Studio of Art Business Management. He was an Adjunct Professor in the Master’s Program in Innovation and Organization of Culture and the Arts at the University of Bologna in 2018 and 2019. His research and teaching at CAFA focused particularly on art markets, art business, art finance, and the development of art industries.

Chang also has extensive professional experience in museums and curatorial practice. From 2013 to 2016, he served as Director of Taiwan Art Bank under Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture. His curatorial projects include the 2010 and 2014 Taiwan Biennials at the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, “The Pioneers of Taiwanese Artists, 1961–1970,” and “Gazing into Freedom: Taiwan Contemporary Art Exhibition.” He also curated “Taiwan at the Venice Biennale of Architecture 2000–2010” and oversaw administrative coordination for the Taiwan Pavilion at the 12th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. Earlier in his career, he worked as a researcher at Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong.

His publications and research projects cover art markets, art asset management, contemporary art, ethnic representation, and cultural industries. His scholarship has addressed art marketing, art banking, art wealth management, and the institutional development of art museums in Taiwan and China, among other topics. Alongside his academic research and teaching, he has given invited lectures on art markets, art finance, art business, museum finance, and cultural industries at universities, research institutions, art fairs, and professional organizations in Taiwan, China, Europe, and other international contexts.