HSU Che-Yu

Hsu Che-Yu (b.1985) born in Taipei.

 

He works as an artist who primarily creates animations, videos and installations that feature the relations between media and memories. What matters to the artist is not simply the history of events traceable through media, but also the construction and visualization of memories, be they private or collective.

  • Solo Exhibitions

    2024 “Three Episodes of Mourning Exercises”, ARGOS centre for audiovisual arts, Brussels, Belgium
    2024 “Three Episodes of Mourning Exercises”, ILHAM Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
    2023 “The Zoo and the Rabbit”, Atelier Arthur Rogiers, Brussels, Belgium
    2023 “City Strays and Wild Horses”, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
    2023 “Zoo Hypothesis”, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
    2023 “The Making of Crime Scenes”, Vernacular Institute, Mexico City, Mexico
    2023 “Two Episodes of Mourning Exercises”, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Genève, Switzerland
    2023 “Three Episodes of Mourning Exercises”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
    2022 “Sketching that Head, and the Stories of Its Body”, Liang Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
    2020 “An Unusual Day”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2017 “Re-rupture”, a.m. space, Hong Kong
    2016 “No News from Home”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    2015 “Microphone Test”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
    2015 “Microphone Test  PART 2”, Nunu Fine Art, Taipei, Taiwan
    2014 “ART 101 showcase project”, Escents Taipei 101, Taipei, Taiwan
    2012 “The Nameless Man PART 2”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
    2012 “Yuan Zhi-Jie”, Society for Arts and Technology (SAT), Montreal, Canada
    2012 “Event Topology” , VT ARTSALON, Taipei, Taiwan
    2011 “The Nameless Man”, Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
    2010 “Search for Halo”, Association of the Visual Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
    2010 “Breaking News”, SLY art space, Taipei, Taiwan

  • Group Exhibitions

    2024
    “Play and Loop VI”, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
    “Kunstenfestivaldesarts 2024”, Brussels, Belgium
    “Rijksakademie Open Studios 2024”, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    “Fog of War”, Vondelpark Pavillion, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    “Vanguard Onwards”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China

    2023
    “Biennial Sesc_Videobrasil: Memory is an Editing Station”, Sesc 24 de Maio, São Paulo, Brazil
    “Ars Electronica Festival”, PostCity, Linz, Austria
    “Theater der Welt”, Künstlerhaus Mousonturm, Frankfurt, Germany
    “Meaning”, Beijing Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
    “Memory Palace in Ruins”, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Taipei, Taiwan
    “Rijksakademie Open Studios 2023”, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten, Amsterdam, Netherlands
    “Art in Our Time: NTMoFA Collection Highlights”, Kaohsiung Museum, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
    “Faunal Eye”, The Frank-Ratchye STUDIO For Creative Inquiry, Pittsburgh, United States

    2022
    “Techniques of Becoming”, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
    “NEXT: Taishin Arts Award 20th Anniversary Exhibition”, MoNTUE (The Museum of NTUE), Taipei, Taiwan
    “Digital Art Festival Taipei 22: Fake it Real”, National Taiwan Science Education Center, Taipei, Taiwan
    “Kunstenfestival Aardenburg 22: Beyond Borders”, Aardenburg, Netherlands
    “Panorama 24: De l’autre coté”, Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France
    “Play and Loop IV”, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong
    “Theater Commons Tokyo ’22”, Theater Commons Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
    “Science Fiction and Hallucination”, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy
    “ASIA NOW ”, Paris Asian Art Fair, Paris, France
    “Art Basel Hong Kong”, Hong Kong

    2021
    “Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead: Techniques of Becoming”, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
    “Bienal de São Paulo: Though it’s dark, still I sing”, Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil
    “Seoul Mediacity Biennale: One Escape at a Time”, SeMA – Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
    “Sonsbeek20→24 public programme-Force Times Distance: On Labor and Its Sonic Ecologies”, Sonsbeek, Arnhem, Netherlands
    “Zin Ex: Body and Architecture”, Tabakalera, San Sebastian, Spain
    “VIDEONALE.18 – Fluid States. Solid Matter”, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
    “Traveling Backwards – to the stories we left behind”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
    “Panorama 23: par le rêve”, Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France
    “Flowers of Taiwan”, MAXXI Museum, Rome, Italy
    “New Songs for Old Cities”, Netwerk Aalst, Aalst, Belgium
    “Signals: CREATORS 2020–21”, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Taipei, Taiwan
    “Art Basel, Hong Kong – Encounters”, Hong Kong Arts Centre Cinema, Hong Kong
    “Liste Art Fair Basel”, Courtesy of Messe Basel, Basel, Switzerland
     
    2020
    “In a Long Blink of an Eye”, Gosset site, Brussels, Belgium
    “The Upper Hand”, IKOB – Museum of Contemporary Art, Eupen, Belgium
    “The Exhibition of Annual of Contemporary Art of China”, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
    “Permeable dimension wall : Taiwan – Japan Comic Aesthetics & Contemporary Art Exhibition”, National Taiwan Museum, Taichung, Taiwan
    “Artivirals”, Maaltebruggekasteel, Gent, Belgium
    “Out of Blueprints: Online Exhibition Programme”,Serpentine Galleries x K11 Art Foundation x NOWNESS, London, United Kingdom
    “Artificial Unit”, TheCube Project Space, Taipei, Taiwan
    “ASIA NOW ”, Paris Asian Art Fair, Paris, France
    “Zonder Kunstenaar, geen kunst”, M HKA, Antwerp, Belgium
    “Liste Art Fair-Rewriting Imagination”, Basel, Switzerland
     
    2019
    “Pre-Biennale screening program- The 11th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2021)”, Seoul Cinema, Seoul, Korea
    “HUGO BOSS ASIA ART”, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
    “Operations<>Calculations: The Universe Between Humans and the World”, Centre for Experimental Film, Shenzhen, China
    “Into the Crevices of Imagination”, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
    “Forget Sorrow Grass: An Archaeology of Feminine Time”, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangdong, China
    “Once Upon A Time-Unfinished Progressive Past”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
    “Human Trace, Intercity, and Transformation of the World”, OCAT Institute, Beijing, China
    “Anxiety of Images”, National Taiwan Museum, Taichung, Taiwan
    “Sharing Perceptions”, Fotoaura institute of photography/Akademie Graz, Tainan/Graz, Taiwan/Austria
    “HISK @ TICK TACK”, TICK TACK, Antwerpen, Belgium
    “Adult World”, C5art, Beijing, China
    “LOOP Fair”, Almanac Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
    “Video Art Exhibition of CHEN I-Chun, HSU Chai-Wei, HSU Che-Yu and WU Chi-Yu”, Liang Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
     
    2018
    “Shanghai Biennale: Proregress”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
    “London Design Biennale: Emotional States”, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
    “Bangkok Biennial: Cinema Taipei”, Cho Why, Bangkok, Thailand
    “Osmosis Audiovisual Media festival” , CCI Fabrika, Moscow, Russia
    “Treasure Hill Light Festival 2018 – Here & There”, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
    “Art Basel, Hong Kong – Encounters”, Hong Kong Arts Centre Cinema, Hong Kong
    “We can’t come from nothing – Taiwan & Europe exchange Exhibition”, HaoHaus Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
     
    2017
    “All the Light We Cannot See”, Sonje Art Center , Seoul, Korea
    “Asian Art Biennial: Negotiating the Future”, National Taiwan Museum, Taichung, Taiwan
    “Broken Spectre”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
    “China ReMixed”, Indiana University, The Media School, loomington, United States
    “Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival: Phantom Pain Clinic”, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China
    “Video Asia”, Casal Solleric, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
    “Digital Break”, Phoenix Leicester/ Fabrica Gallery Brighton/ Backlit Gallery, Nottingham/ CCA Glasgow, United Kingdom
    “The Aftermath: The Lift of Martial Law”, LIANG GALLERY, Taipei, Taiwan
    “Mystery Cases in Contemporary Art”, Kaohsiung Museum, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
    “Dream Team of Kaohsiung Awards and Its Four Challenges”, Kaohsiung Museum, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
    “Data Dreams”, Goethe-Institut Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
    “TURN ON !”, a.m. space, Hong Kong
     
    2016
    “Public Spirits”, Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
    “BRIC-á-brac”, TODAY ART MUSEUM, Beijing, China
    “You Are Not Alone”, Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong
    “Time Test: International Video Art Research Exhibition”, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
    “Transition of Times”, Kaohsiung Museum, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
    “The 14th Taishin Arts Award Exhibition”, MoNTUE (The Museum of NTUE), Taipei, Taiwan
    “ASIA NOW Special Project, LEAP Pavilion: The Naïve and the Sentimental Novelist”, Paris Asian Art Fair, Paris, France
    “VOLTA”, Pier 90, New York, United States
    “Sailing in the Dark Cave: The Historia Naturalis of Sino Art”, LIN & LIN GALLERY, Taipei, Taiwan
    “Got it-not yet”, Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
    “Taipei Art District Festival”, Neihu Civic Center, Taipei, Taiwan
    “Detective”, The Pier-2 Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
     
    2015
    “Annual Flagship Exhibition- Familiar Otherness: Art Across Northeast Asia”, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
    “Language is a Virus”, Ilam Campus Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
    “CAFAM • Future”, K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong
    “CAFAM • Future”, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
    “Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale: Visions and Beyond”, OCT LOFT, Shenzhen, China
    “Moving Image Istanbul”, Kuleli Building, Istanbul, Turkey
    “Looping Theatre”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    “GAME‧NOT OVER‧YET”, Fuzhong 15 ANIMATION & STORY GALLERY, Taipei, Taiwan
     
    2014
    “NordArt 2014”, Kunstwerk Carlshütte, Büdelsdorf, Germany
    “Uncleam Project”, SomoS Art House, Berlin, Germany
    “Animamix Biennale 2013-2014 Rediscovery”, MOCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China
    “Animamix Biennale 2013-2014 Rediscovery”, Academy of Arts & Design Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
    “Moving Triennale Made in Busan: LAST EXIT Bag, Art & Text, Site Project”, Ferry Port in Busan, Busan, Korea
    “Artshow Busan”, BEXCO, Busan, Korea
     

    2013 
    “Trans-allegory –Highlights of New Media Arts from the Museum Collection”,  National Taiwan Museum, Taichung, Taiwan
    “Are we working too much? ”, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
    “GAS STATION VI”, Vanguard Gallery, Shanghai, China
    “inToAsia: Time-based Art Festival 2013 – MicroCities”, The Queens Museum of Art, New York, United States
    “Dying Eyes”, China Academy of Art, Hangzhou, China
     
    2012 
    “Dying Eyes”, Schmiede, Austria
    “Shanghai Biennale Special Project: Zhongshan Park Project”, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
    “GREENBOX: REMAPPING – THE SPACE OF MEDIA REALITY”, Hangzhou, China
    “Taiwan Biennial”, National Taiwan Museum, Taichung, Taiwan
    “SOHO in Ottakring Festival”, Vienna, Austria
    “Ambiguous Being”, tamtamART, Berlin, Germany
    “Ambiguous Being”, Kav16 gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
    “Ambiguous Being”, Hong-Gah Musem, Taipei, Taiwan
    “Taoyuan International Animation Expo”, Taoyuan, Taiwan
    “Sincere Subversion”, VT ARTSALON, Taipei, Taiwan
     
    2011
    “Perceive”, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
    “ARTchSO Video Festival”, Rennes, France
    “News Studio” , Hong-Gah Musem, Taipei, Taiwan
    “FLU-FATIGUE video screening”, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
    “Damn It, It’s The World Wonder”, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
    “Hidden Story”, Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan

  • Awards

    2021          Videonale Award of the Fluentum Collection, VIDEONALE.18, Kunstmuseum Bonn

    2020          Loop Barcelona Video Art Production Award, Han Nefkens Foundation

    2020          Special Mention, LineaDoc, Linea d’Ombra Festival

    2019           Finalist, HUGO BOSS ASIA ART, Rockbund Art Museum

    2018           1st Prize in the experimental film section category, Spain Moving Images Festival

    2016            Annual Grand Prize, Taishin Arts Award, Taishin Bank Foundation for Arts and Culture

    2011            Kaohsiung Fine Arts Award, Kaohsiung Museum

    2011            The Gold Medal of New Media Art, Nation-Wide Award, National Taiwan Museum

    2010            Taoyuan Creation Award, Department of Cultural Affairs Taoyuan

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