Tishan Hsu

Artist Talk

Wednesday, Oct 23, 2024 06:00pm – 07:00pm

Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60603 (Map)

2024 Tishan Hsu Artists Rights Society/New York

ABOUT THE ARTIST

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. Much of the artist’s work has attempted to convey the changing cognitive and physical effects of an embodied technology. Hsu’s interest in technology has not been in the use of a particular apparatus but the perception of a technological affect. His work has included drawings, paintings, interactive digital media projections, and sculpture.

Born in Boston, Massachusetts, Hsu received his B.S.A.D in 1973 and M.Arch in 1975 from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. While at MIT, he also studied film and photography at the Carpenter Center, Harvard University. Since 1985, Hsu has shown extensively in the US, Europe, Mexico and Asia, with works in many public and private collections. Hsu’s survey exhibition, Liquid Circuit, opened at SculptureCenter in 2020, following its first iteration at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. In 2021, his work was included in the 13th Gwangju Biennale, Minds Rising, Spirits Tuning; TECHNO at Museion, Bolzano, Italy; Zeros + Ones at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin. 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? His recent work was on view at the Secession, Vienna during winter 2023/2024; and his first European survey exhibition was held at MAMCO, Geneva.

Dinner
Join us for dinner with the artist following the program at Sushi San in the heart of Lincoln Park. This new location serves up a fantastic menu from Master Sushi Chef Kaze Chan, prioritizing the freshest ingredients.

This dinner is made possible with the support of Lettuce Entertain You Restaurants.