Kathy Change
Visual Artist
1950 – 1996
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Who was Kathy Change?
Kathy Change was an American performance artist and political activist who killed herself in an act of self-immolation on the University of Pennsylvania campus in 1996. Born Kathleen Chang, she legally changed her name to Kathy Change to indicate her commitment to political and social change. She was the daughter of Chinese academics who emigrated to America in the wake of the Chinese Revolution. Change was married for five years to writer Frank Chin.
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- Born
- 1950
- Spouses
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Mills College
- Lived in
- Philadelphia
- Died
- Oct 22, 1996
Philadelphia
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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