HSU Yu-Jen
HSU Yu-Jen (B.1951)
Graduated from National Taiwan Academy of Arts, Hsu Yu-Jen abandoned the practice of ink painting for oil painting while still at art school, only to return to it many years later. His works bring alive an integral dimension of literati art, in that the poetic voice and the writing hand come together to create the visual imagination. Hsu is also the author of the poetry inscribed on his paintings. The artist has invented a very personal brush language to capture a sense of crystalline transparency in the structure of spatial objects. Depicting places in Taiwan familiar to the artist, the images embody a luminosity and architectural spatial structure that reflects the sensibility of a city dweller amid glass towers.
| 1951 | Born in Tainan, Taiwan |
| 1975 | Graduated from National Taiwan Academy of Arts, Taiwan. |
| At Present | Currently lives and works in Beijing and Taipei |
| 2014 | HSU Yu-Jen, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong |
| Ink Unlimited - Solo exhibiton by Hsu Yu-Jen, Jia Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| 2013 | In the Inverted Reflections of the World – Solo Exhibition of HSU Yu-Jen, Moon Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan |
| 2012 | Summer Garden – Ink Paintings by HSU Yu-Jen, Leearchi, Miaoli, Taiwan |
| 2010 | A Form Between Visible and Invisible - Hsu Yu-Jen Solo Exhibition, La Chambre Art Gallery & Society, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2009 | A flower booming within the body - Double-Solo Exhibitions by Hsu Yu-Jen & Chang jin-lieng, Jia Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2008 | Warmish Interior - Ink Painting by Hsu Yu-Jen, Jia Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Worldless in Tranquility - Hsu Yu-Jen Solo Exhibition, Expol-Sources Art Space, Beijing, China | |
| 2007 | A Translucent Sky - Ink Painting by Hsu Yu-Jen, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong |
| A Translucent Sky - Ink Painting by Hsu Yu-Jen, Cans Bookshop, Beijing, China | |
| A Blank Space - Ink Painting by Hsu Yu-Jen, Changdian Base, Beijing, China | |
| 2006 | The Hidden Space - Ink Painting by Hsu Yu-Jen 1972-2006, Since Well Humanistic Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
| The Ocean of Hsu Yu-Jen, Taipei County Art & Culture Center, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| 2002 | The Process of Self-Creation - Hsu Yu-Jen’s Recent Art Works, National Tsing Hua University Arts Center, Hsinchu, Taiwan |
| 2000 | Landscape of Light - Ink Painting by Hsu Yu-Jen, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 1998 | Hsu Yu-Jen Solo Exhibition, Jin Shi Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan |
| 1996 | Hsu Yu-Jen Solo Exhibition, Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1993 | Hsu Yu-Jen Solo Exhibition, Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1991 | Hsu Yu-Jen Solo Exhibition, Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1979 | Hsu Yu-Jen Solo Exhibition, American Cultural Centre, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2015 | Magical Mountains: Hanart TZ Gallery at Art Basel HK 2015, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong |
| Grids and Stones: Landscape as Cultural Self-portrait, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong | |
| 2012 | Art Taipei 2012, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Vision, Soka Art Center, Tainan, Taiwan | |
| 2011 | Contemporaneity of Revisiting Historical Paths, Gallery100, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Contemporary Bland Painting, Beijing, China | |
| 2010 | Landscape in Transition, Yuzi Paradise, Guilin, China |
| 2009 | A Peep Into Taiwan Contemporary Works on Paper, Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2008 | Shanghai MoCA Envisage II - Butterfly Dream, MoCA Shanghai, Shanghai, China |
| The 6th International Ink Painting Biennale of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Museum, Shenzhen, China | |
| Form, Ideas, Essence, Rhythm: Contemporary East Asian Ink Painting, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| Southern Traveler, Licence Art Gallery, Tainan, Taiwan | |
| Beijing Art Exposition, China World Trade Center, Beijing, China | |
| 2006 | Ink Transformation: Modern Ink Painting in Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan |
| QuiJiDaHua: Ink Painting, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| Revival: New Ink Art Shanghai 2006, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China | |
| 2005 | Educational Ink Painting Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Through Masters' Eyes, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst (Museum of East Asian Art), Köln, Germany | |
| 2004 | The Yellow Box: Contemporary Calligraphy and Painting in Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2003 | Contemporary Ink Painting and the state of the Ink, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 2002 | Taipei Mayor Salon, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Tamsui Art Festival, Tamsui Art and Cultural Center, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| 2001 | Environmental Installation Exhibition, Hualien, Taiwan |
| 1999 | Dialogue between Hsu Yu-jen and Joshua Neustein, Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1997 | Tracing Taiwan: Contemporary Works on Paper, The Drawing Center, New York / The Parrish Art Museum, New York / The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, California / Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1996 | Contemporary View of Taiwanese Arts: Hanart's Choice, Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1994 | Open Culture: The 22 nd International Biennial of Sao Paulo from a Taiwan Perspective, Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| Man and Earth: Contemporary Paintings from Taiwan, Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Colorado / Polk Art Museum, Florida / Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| Tamsui Art and Cultural Center, Taipei, Taiwan | |
| 1993 | Up Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
| Visual Expression Group Exhibition, Doors Art Space, Kaohsiung, Taiwan | |
| 1992 | Exhibition of Stone Sculpture, Chieh Chan Hall, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1991 | Doors Art Space, Kaohsiung, Taiwan |
| Individual Movement, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong | |
| 1990 | Three Thousand, Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1984 | Exhibition of Stone Sculpture, Bai Jia Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| San Tsai Arts Center, Taichung, Taiwan | |
| 1983 | Da Di Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan |
| 1982 | American Cultural Centre, Taipei, Taiwan |
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