HSU Chia-Wei
HSU Chia-Wei 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).
His works have been widely recognized by prestigious international institutions, with exhibitions spanning Europe and Asia. In 2025, he was invited to participate in "MACHINE LOVE: Video Game, AI and Contemporary Art" at Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, exploring artistic creation in the age of artificial intelligence. This continues his significant presence in major international exhibitions, including Aichi Triennale (2022), Eye Filmmuseum, Netherlands (2019), Gwangju Biennale, Busan Biennale, Shanghai Biennale, and Sydney Biennale (2018), "2 or 3 Tigers" at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (2017), "Taipei Biennial 2016 - Gestures and Archives of the Present, Genealogies of the Future" at Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2016), "HUGO BOSS ASIA ART Award" at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai (2013), "This is not a Taiwan Pavilion" at the 55th Venice Biennale (2013), and "Faux Amis / An Ephemeral Video Library" at Jeu de Paume, Paris (2010), among others.
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 by Eye Filmmuseum, becoming the first Taiwanese artist to receive this honor. Additionally, he has been shortlisted as one of the six candidates for the 3rd Sigg Prize in 2025, and will participate in the "Sigg Prize 2025" exhibition held at M+ museum in Hong Kong in September of the same year.