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Hsu Yu-jen
1951Born in Jiali District, Tainan City, Taiwan
1975Graduated from the Chinese Painting department, National School of Arts (Present day National Taiwan University of the Arts), New Taipei
Presently working and living in Sanzhi District, Taipei City
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024Hsu Yu-Jen: A Retrospective, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2021Realms Beyond Boundaries, Chini Gallery, Taipei
2019The Realm Beyond Ink, Mezzo Art, Tainan
2018The Realm Beyond Ink, Providence University Art Center, Taichung
2017The Variation of Ink – The Solo Exhibition of Yu-Jen Hsu, Chini Gallery, Taipei
2016Visible. Invisible. Between Visible and Invisible. Hsu Ju-Ren Solo Exhibition, TAIYU Beaux Arts Salon, Chiayi
Hsu Yu-Ren & Lin Chuan-Chu Exhibition, Galerie Pierre, Taichung
2014Ink Unlimited – Solo Exhibition by Hsu Yu-Jen, Jia Art Gallery, Taipei
2013Between Coarse and Fine Brushworks – Hsu Yu-Jen Solo Exhibition, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
In the Inverted Reflections of the World – Solo Exhibition of Hsu Yu-Jen, Moon Gallery, Taichung
2012Summer Garden – Ink Paintings by Hsu Yu-Jen, Leearchi, Miaoli
2010A Form Between Visible and Invisible – Hsu Yu-Jen Solo Exhibition, La Chambre Art Gallery & Society, Taipei
2009A Flower Booming within the Body – Double-Solo Exhibitions by Hsu Yu-Jen & Chang Jin-Lieng, Jia Art Gallery, Taipei
2008Warmish Interior – Ink Painting by Hsu Yu-Jen, Jia Art Gallery, Taipei
Worldless in Tranquility – Hsu Yu-Jen Solo Exhibition, Expol-Sources Art Space, Beijing
2007A 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
A Blank Space – Ink Painting by Hsu Yu-Jen, Changdian Base, Beijing
2006The Hidden Space – Ink Painting by Hsu Yu-Jen 1972-2006, Since Well Humanistic Gallery, Kaohsiung
The Ocean of Hsu Yu-Jen, Taipei County Art & Culture Center, Taipei
2002The Process of Self-Creation – Hsu Yu-Jen’s Recent Art Works, National Tsing Hua University Arts Center, Hsinchu
2000Landscape of Light – Ink Painting by Hsu Yu-Jen, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
1998Hsu Yu-Jen Solo Exhibition, Jin Shi Gallery, Taichung
1996Hsu Yu-Jen Solo Exhibition, Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei
1993Hsu Yu-Jen Solo Exhibition, Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei
1991Hsu Yu-Jen Solo Exhibition, Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei
1979Hsu Yu-Jen Solo Exhibition, American Cultural Center, Taipei
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023Era of Principle and No Principle Interwoven, Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center, Taoyuan
2022Mis/understanding Water Ink, Hung Ken-shen Art Museum, Penghu
2020Between: Joint Exhibition of Hsu Yu-Jen and Chen Sheng-Song, Mezzo Art, Tainan
2019The Water of Silent Time, Da Xiang Art Space, Taichung,
Pioneers of the Avant-Garde Movement in Taiwan: from Li Chun-Shan to His Disciples, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung
2017The Weight of Lightness, M+ Museum, Hong Kong
Mandala of Ink Art, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung
2016Contemporary Taiwan: An Exhibition of Abstract Art Classics, Remarkable Cultivation Art Gallery, Tainan
2015Magical Mountains – Art Basel, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
Grids and Stones: Landscape as Cultural Self-portrait, Hanart TZ Gallery, Hong Kong
2014Yes! Taiwan – Taiwan Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung
2012In the Prime of Vitality, Loftyart Gallery, Taipei
Vision, Soka Art Center, Tainan,
2011Contemporaneity of Revisiting Historical Paths, Gallery 100, Taipei, Taiwan
Contemporary Bland Painting, Huapu Art Museum, Beijing
2010Landscape in Transition, Yue Hu Art Museum, Shanghai
2009A Peep Into Taiwan Contemporary Works on Paper, Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei
2008Shanghai MoCA Envisage II – Butterfly Dream, Shanghai Museum fo Contemporary Art, Shanghai
The 6th International Ink Painting Biennale of Shenzhen, Shenzhen Museum, Shenzhen
Form, Ideas, Essence, Rhythm: Contemporary East Asian Ink Painting, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Southern Traveler, Licence Art Gallery, Tainan
2006Ink Transformation: Modern Ink Painting in Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
QuiJiDaHua: Ink Painting, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei
Revival: New Ink Art Shanghai, Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
Educational Ink Painting Exhibition, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2005Through Masters’ Eyes, Museum für Ostasiatische Kunst (Museum of East Asian Art), Köln, Germany
2004The Yellow Box: Contemporary Calligraphy and Painting in Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2003Contemporary Ink Painting and the State of the Ink, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
2002Taipei Mayor Salon, Taipei
Tamsui Art Festival, Tamsui Art and Cultural Center, Taipei
2001Environmental Installation Exhibition, Hualien, Taiwan
1999Dialogue between Hsu Yu-jen and Joshua Neustein, Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei
1997Tracing Taiwan: Contemporary Works on Paper, The Drawing Center, New York, US / The Parrish Art Museum, New York / The Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, US / Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
1995Open Culture: The 22nd International Biennial of Sao Paulo from a Taiwan Perspective, Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei
Man and Earth: Contemporary Paintings from Taiwan, Center for the Visual Arts, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Colorado, US / Polk Art Museum, Florida, US / Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
1994Up Gallery, Kaohsiung
Visual Expression Group Exhibition, Doors Art Space, Kaohsiung
1992Exhibition of Stone Sculpture, Chieh Chan Hall, Taipei
1991Doors Art Space, Kaohsiung
Three Thousand, Hanart (Taipei) Gallery, Taipei
1990Individual Movement, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Hong Kong
1984Exhibition of Stone Sculpture, Bai Jia Gallery, Taipei
San Tsai Arts Center, Taichung
1983Da Di Gallery, Taipei
1982American Cultural Center, Taipei
Selected Public Collections
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung
Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, US
Yue Hu Art Museum, Shanghai
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