Brook Hsu

Biography
installation view, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, 2023
installation view, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, 2023

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); Gladstone Gallery, New York (2024); Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome (2022); Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong (2022); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2021); Manual Arts, Los Angeles (2021); Bortolami Gallery, New York (2019). Relevant group exhibitions include Boros Collection, Berlin (2026, forthcoming); Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris (2025); 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
Booth School of Business, University of Chicago
Live Forever Foundation, Taichung

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Works
  • Blue Girl, Green Stags, Black Forest
    Blue Girl, Green Stags, Black Forest
  • The Barcelona Pavilion
    The Barcelona Pavilion
  • Tree in a Landscape
    Tree in a Landscape
  • Flayed Antelope
    Flayed Antelope
  • Flayed Rabbit
    Flayed Rabbit
  • Hope
    Hope
  • Ida
    Ida
  • Orange Tree
    Orange Tree
  • Vicky Triptych
    Vicky Triptych
  • Landscape with Reflection
    Landscape with Reflection
  • Orange Tree
    Orange Tree
  • Meet Me at the Library
    Meet Me at the Library
  • Madonna
    Madonna
  • Oranges
    Oranges
  • Oranges
    Oranges
  • Oranges
    Oranges
  • Pale Green
    Pale Green
  • Pale Green
    Pale Green
  • Pan et son eleve
    Pan et son eleve
  • Skeleton Entombed
    Skeleton Entombed
  • Study of Titian’s Flaying of Marsyas
    Study of Titian’s Flaying of Marsyas
  • The Journey
    The Journey
  • The Flute Player
    The Flute Player
  • Two Skeletons
    Two Skeletons
  • Untitled
    Untitled
  • Untitled
    Untitled
  • Untitled
    Untitled
  • The Journey
    The Journey
  • Study of Titian´s Flaying of Marsyas
    Study of Titian´s Flaying of Marsyas
  • Skeletons Embracing
    Skeletons Embracing
  • Nishi
    Nishi
  • Memory
    Memory
  • The Pillow Book
    The Pillow Book
  • Pan's Heart- Character Pond
    Pan's Heart- Character Pond
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