TISHAN HSU

TISHAN HSU

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. From early on Hsu’s work began to reflect his “assessment that technology was becoming an extension of the human body,” as Julie Belcove writes, which is “a condition he concluded was destined to intensify over time. Modular tiles in his sculptures echoed bits of digital data; three-dimensional objects hinted at contraptions yet to come. Paintings evoked computer monitors but also blood cells or flesh.” The body, Hsu came to realize, could no longer be represented the way it had been for centuries. He was seeing the future.

Hsu, Tishan

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