Hung Hsien, also known as Margaret Chang, was born in Yangzhou, China, in 1933 in a very artistic and prominent family. She settled in Taiwan with her family in 1948. She studied traditional Chinese painting with Prince Pu Xinyu and in the Normal University of Taiwan. She became a member of the Fifth Moon Group. After she married T.C. Chang in 1957, the couple moved to Chicago, where Hung Hsien studied painting in both Northwestern University and the Art Institute of Chicago. These experiences inspired her to combine traditional Asian brushwork and Western abstract art. Hung Hsien’s paintings have been exhibited and collected in several museums in Hong Kong and the US.