Chia-Wei HSU
Taiwan
Chia-Wei Hsu was born in Taichung, Taiwan in 1983 and graduated from Le Fresnoy- Studio national des arts contemporains, France in 2016. He is an artist, filmmaker, and curator whose work merges the language of contemporary art and film unearthing the complex production mechanisms that are behind the process of image-creation. Through his practice, Hsu weaves together connections between humans, materials, and places that have been overlooked or omitted from conventional historical narratives.
Hsu has had solo exhibitions “Silicon Serenade” at Liang Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan(2024), “A Performance in the Church” at Liang Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan(2021) , “Tung Chung Art Award” at MoNTUE, Taipei, Taiwan (2019), Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan (2018), “Industrial Research Institute of Taiwan Governor-General’s Office” at Liang Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan (2017), “Huai Mo Village” at Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (2016) that was recognised by the Annual Grand Prize of the 15th Taishin Arts Award, “Huai Mo Village Project” at Art Basel, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong, China (2016), and “Position #2” at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands (2015).
He has participated in exhibitions at Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2019), Biennial at Shanghai, Gwangju, Busan and Sydney (2018), 2 or 3 Tigers at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany (2017), 2016 TAIPEI BIENNIAL - Gestures and Archives of the Present, Genealogies of the Future at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (2016), HUGO BOSS ASIA ART at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2013), The 55th International Art Exhibition - la Biennale di Venezia: This is not a Taiwan Pavilion at Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy (2013), and Faux Amis / An Ephemeral Video Library at JEU DE PAUME, Paris, France (2010).
He and a group of artists also run an art space in Taipei: Open-Contemporary Art Centre, an organisation with functions of curation, creation, narrative, inter-disciplinary exchange, education as well as the promotion of art that strives to seek every possibility to create communication in contemporary art. He is also the curator of Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition at Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan (2018), THAITAI: A Measure of Understanding at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand (2012), and co-curate the 2019 Asian Art Biennial at National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2019) with Ho Tzu-Nyen.
In October 2024, Chia-Wei Hsu was awarded the 10th Eye Art & Film Prize, becoming the first Taiwanese artist to receive this honor.