Brook Hsu

BROOK HSU (b.1987) lives and works in New York and Wyoming. Hsu dedicates herself to painting in an ongoing engagement with the medium’s capacity to cast an aesthetically propulsive and emotionally charged orbit, intertwining personal narratives of human and non-human relationships, while connecting the act and the history of painting in dialogue with literature, cinema, and music. Hsu’s paintings are trans-temporal acts, which through repeated gestures and subjects, variations and echoes, appear as palimpsests and time frames. They evoke filmic time, especially stasis and slow temporality as narrative and conceptual devices as employed by Yasujirō Ozu and Tsai Ming-liang. She is interested in how the retelling of stories, the transmutative act of repetition, and by extension the relooking of paintings across time, could hold the viewer’s attention, while shifting meaning, both reinforcing and diverging from a narrative at once.

-Jo-ey Tang

Hsu received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2010 and her MFA from Yale University in 2016. Relevant solo exhibitions include: Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2026, forthcoming); Gladstone Gallery, New York (2024); Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong (2022); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2021); Manual Arts, Los Angeles (2021); Bortolami Gallery, New York (2019). Hsu has presented in group exhibitions at Bortolami Gallery, Dubois (2025); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Munich (2025); Grimm, Amsterdam (2024); David Zwirner, New York (2024); Heidi Gallery, Berlin (2024); Contemporary Fine Arts, Basel (2024); Oriole, Hamburg (2024); Et al. Gallery, San Francisco (2024); New York (2024); 14th Shanghai Biennale (2023); K11 Shanghai (2023); Kunsthalle Zürich (2023); Paul Soto, Los Angeles (2023); Adler Beatty, New York (2022); Derosia Gallery, New York (2022); Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles (2022); kaufmann repetto, New York and Milan (2021); TANK, Shanghai (2020); CLEARING, New York (2020); Jan Kaps, Cologne (2020); Insect Gallery, Los Angeles (2019-2020); Château Shatto, Los Angeles (2019); in lieu, Los Angeles (2019); and The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2018-2019)

Her work is part of the collections of:

Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris

Yan Du Collection, London

Boros Collection, Berlin

Philara Collection, Düsseldorf

X Museum, Beijing

Long Museum, Shanghai

Brook Hsu was born 1987 in Pullman, Washington, USA, and currently lives and works in New York. Hsu deploys and weaves the autobiographical and the mythopoetic into paintings using an array of materials, including ink, oil paint, industrial carpets, and off-cuts of ready-made lumber. The sources for Hsu’s imagery comes from her own observations, sometimes arising from art history, film and literature. Her practice as painter is based in representation and questions current definitions of figuration and abstraction.

Taiwanese-American artist Brook Hsu grew up in Oklahoma, received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2010 and her MFA from Yale University in 2016. Recent solo exhibitions by Hsu have taken place at Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2021); Manual Arts, Los Angeles (2021); Et al., San Francisco (2019); Bortolami Gallery, New York (2019); Bahamas Biennale, Detroit (2018). Hsu will present a solo exhibition at Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, in 2022. Group exhibitions with the artist have taken place at: TANK, Shanghai (2020); CLEARING, New York (2020); Jan Kaps, Cologne (2020); The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2018-2019).