TSMC Charity Foundation chairman Sophie Chang has been a leader in public welfare for 10 years, focusing on the cultivation of rural areas in Taiwan. She is also a well-known international painter, who combines abstract work with Chinese traditions. Her paintings have been exhibited at prestigious galleries such as the Hong Kong Sotheby’s and Christie’s.

She picked up the paintbrush relatively late in life, yet she quickly mastered the basics and developed her own visual language, using Western abstraction with Eastern tools and techniques such as ink wash and calligraphy. As the wife of Morris Chang, retired chairman of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, she heads its charity arm, which provides services to the elderly, aid and education to disadvantaged groups and promotes environmental conservation and filial piety.

Chang often uses her art for charity. Her work, “Source of Hope”, was sold for NT$8.78 million in March 2020, and she donated all proceeds to the Disease Control Department of the Ministry of Health and Welfare of Taiwan. In September 2020, she held her first solo exhibition, Love Endless, at the Tainan Municipal Art Museum, featuring 15 paintings created between 2016 and 2020.

Among her numerous philanthropic initiatives include taking hundreds of employees and their families on an excursion to help revive the tourism of earthquake-struck Hualien County, donating one of her paintings to auction at Christie’s for the benefit of Save the Children and launching a Covid-19 donation drive to provide medical equipment for hospitals in India. During the pandemic in 2021, she donated 10 zero-contact mining stations and 25,000 medical supplies to support frontliners and the vulnerable. Similarly, during the derailment of the Taroko Express in 2021, she arranged for the donation of 1,200 uniforms to local firefighters, improving the equipment of firefighters nationwide.

In 2021, Chang collaborated with designer Wang Chen Tsai-Hsia, using her paintings for the Shiatzy Chen 2022 Spring Collection. They organised a one-month Zhuo Yun - Salon Exhibition at the Shiatzy Chen store in Zhongshan, with proceeds donated to the TSMC Charity Foundation. In 2022, Chang, Chen Wen-Chien and the Tzu Chi Foundation collaborated to donate scarves, designed by herself and Shiatzy Chen, to Syrian refugees and victims of war.

Chang also focuses on strengthening career exploration and vocational training for students in rural areas. Since 2021, she has collaborated with many companies on the Rural Vocational Training Program, nurturing skills in students and creating local vitality.