Tishan Hsu

Tishan Hsu (b. 1951, Boston, MA) lives and works in New York, NY. Recent solo exhibitions include Tishan Hsu at MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland (2024); Secession, Vienna, Austria (2023–24); and Liquid Circuit at SculptureCenter, New York, NY (2020), which traveled to the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2021). Hsu's work has been featured in major international exhibitions including The Milk of Dreams, the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), the Carnegie International (2022), and the Gwangju Biennale (2021), and it is included in the New Museum's large group exhibition New Humans: Memories of the Future that inaugurated their expanded building in 2026. Hsu’s work is held in the collections of The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art, both in New York, NY; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Tate Modern, London, UK; M+, Hong Kong; and numerous other international institutions. Hsu received a B.S. in Architecture and Environmental Design (1973) and a Master of Architecture (1975) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he also studied film at Harvard University’s Carpenter Center. He has taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Pratt Institute, and Harvard University.