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During my youth, I developed a keen interest in spatial relationships and firmly believed that architecture was my destined profession. However, as time went on, I discovered that art provided more freedom and could be a powerful educational tool. After earning my degree from the Taiwan University Art Department, I started educating children about the diverse world of art and its tools. Subsequently, I moved to San Francisco, USA, where I completed the innovative Master program at the San Francisco Art Institute and established myself as an independent artist. In 2012, I made the move to Copenhagen with my Danish husband. The enchanting appearance of the country might have been what drew me back to children's education, prompting me to create my own series of educational books for young learners.

Gigi Janchang was born in Shanghai, China. Fled to Taiwan with her family due to the political changes in China.

She grew up in Taiwan, and earned a BA degree in fine arts in 1970. After graduation, she worked as an art teacher until 1984.

In 1985, Janchang went to Paris. After visiting innumerous museums and galleries, she decided to study art in the U.S.A.

Two years later, she immigrated to the U.S.A. and entered the San Francisco Art Institute to study sculpture, conceptual art and new genre art.

From 1989 to 1990, invited as a guest student, Janchang studied at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf under Professor Klaus Rinke, and created the first version of Relative Room.

1992, Janchang graduated from the San Francisco Art Institute and earned a Master degree in fine arts. She has worked as an artist since then.

In 1994, Janchang created an 11-meter-long photographic work Come & Go, showed at the National Academy Gallery in Hangzhou, China.

1995, Janchang won the Flintridge Fellowship, and was accepted to the Djerassi Resident Artist Program, where she completed the first version of Blue Eyes.

Invited by Gallery 54, Göteborg, Sweden in 1997, Janchang created and constructed a site-specific installation titled Between Glass.

The San Francisco Art Institute Adaline Kent Award is presented annually to a talented and deserving California artist. In 1998, Janchang won the award.

In 2002, Janchang participated in the Düsseldorf’s Höherweg E.V. residency program and exhibited a site-specific installation Relative Room II.

In 2002, invited by the Culture Department of the city of Düsseldorf, she showed a site-specific installation Up & Down scaling in Gallery Atelier am Eck.

In 2007, she presented a solo exhibition with a large-scale site-specific installation Above Under Glass at Mission 17 Gallery in San Francisco.

Exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery, New York

Gigi Janchang received the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation’s Individual Support Grant in 2004.

Installation project at Fabs Gallery, Warsaw, Poland, 2009