Since the mid-1980s, Tishan Hsu’s prescient artistic practice has been probing the cognitive as well as physical effects of transformative technological advances on our lives. Through the use of unusual materials, software tools, and innovative fabrication techniques, his enigmatic paintings and sculptures explore and manifest poetic new ways to engage and reimagine the human body.
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Tishan Hsu (b. 1951, Boston) lives and works in New York. He studied environmental design and architecture at MIT and received his BSAD in 1973 and M.Arch in 1975. His first exhibition in New York was at Pat Hearn Gallery, and in 1987, he had a one-person show at Leo Castelli. Hsu’s survey exhibition, Liquid Circuit, opened at SculptureCenter in 2020, following its first iteration at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. In 2022, his work was included in the 59th Venice Biennale, The Milk of Dreams, and in the 58th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Is it morning for you yet? Tishan Hsu: recent work was on view at the Secession, Vienna earlier this year; and his first European survey exhibition opened at MAMCO, Geneva in March, 2024. In 2019, Delete, was held at Empty Gallery, Hong Kong. Hsu’s first New York gallery exhibition in 32 years, skin-screen-grass, took place at Miguel Abreu Gallery in October 2021. Hsu’s work has also been featured in significant group exhibitions, including Between pixel and pigment: Hybrid painting in post-digital times at both Museum Marta Herford and the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany (2024); the 13th Gwangju Biennale, Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning (2021); TECHNO at Museion, Bolzano, Italy (2021); and The Poet-Engineers at Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York (2021), among others.
Hsu’s solo exhibition, Interface Remix is currently on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto. His work is included in The Living End: Painting and Other Technologies 1970 – 2020, curated by Jamillah Jones at the MCA, Chicago through March 16, 2025.
Tishan Hsu’s work is held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Dallas Museum of Art; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Tate Modern, London; Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt; MAMCO Geneva, Switzerland; M+, Hong Kong; Pinault Collection; High Museum, Atlanta; The Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis; Terra Museum, Mexico City; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; X Museum, Beijing; and The Rubell Family Collection, Miami, among others.
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