Hugo Chang Coffey





Projects



Selected Works
 






About





Hugo Chang Coffey (b. 2001) is a Swedish/Irish-Korean artist whose practice revolve around otherness, transformation, and the fractured terrain of belonging. Working across a variety of medias, he creates hybrid landscapes, rich with symbolism and mythologies. Coffey’s work often reflects on how the continuous reshaping of history is felt on the present body. Rather than filling in the gaps where certain histories have been erased, his work incorporates the fragmented and embraces the hidden, the unrecorded, the secret and enchanted.
 





Education

BFA, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts   -  Copenhagen, Denmark, Graduated 2025
Konstskolan 2, Ölands Folkhögskola  -  Öland, Sweden, Graduated 2022
Painting department, Dômen Art School  -  Gothenburg, Sweden, Graduated 2021
Project leadership, course in event organizing - Gothenburg, Sweden, Graduated 2019




Projects and residencies

Oreum, Oreum Residency, Jeju Island, South Korea, 2025
Residency and exhibition.

Nostalgic Exile by Jasmin Aiche Mahallati, Rum for Æstetik, Copenhagen, 2025
Presentation of artist praxis and works.

Betwixt and Between, HAUT Scene, Copenhagen, 2025
In process residency and work sharing presentation. 

Shapers, sing the songs of speculation, ODP3, Copenhagen, 2025
Residency and exhibition.

THE HEART IS A MUSCLE THE SIZE OF A FIST
Group exhibition, Gallery Q, Copenhagen 2024
Printed Zine and event, Copenhagen, Malmö, Gothenburg, 2024
Co-founder and visual designer.



Exhibitions

Ripple, Bachelor Exhibition, Brønshøj Vandtårn, Copenhagen, 2025

NODE - a place of connection, a meeting point, Gallery Q, Copenhagen, 2024
We Run Together Through The Virual Quarries, Basement, Copenhagen, 2024

Artworks created in relation to Agathe Lemaitre’s “Le Livre de Liane”, United Nations Office, Geneva, Switzerland, 2023

This could be us but you’re so hardcore, Basement, Copenhagen, 2023

Ver Sacrum, Galleri Den Fantastiska Platsen, Stockholm,  2023

How to dig a tunnel, Kalmar Museum of Arts, Kalmar, 2022

Socker, spice and everything nice, Zocker, Öland, 2021




Relevant work experience

Intern at Skånes Konstförening, Malmö, 2025-26

Artist’s assistant for Lydia Ö. Diakité, Copenhagen, 2024-26
Young Ambassador, Arena 29 Culture House, Gothenburg 2019-22
Representative and event organizer.