Brook Hsu
Brook Hsu (b. 1987) 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 come from her own observations, sometimes arising from art history, film and literature. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture and writing, her works aim to question how we define representation today, producing abstract and figurative works that employ a host of signs and motifs, recounting stories of love, pain and humor. Hsu says of her practice, 'I seek to understand what we value in life by asking how we value the world.'
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. Hsu currently lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions by Hsu have taken place at Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Gladstone Gallery, Rome (2022); Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong (2022); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2021); Manual Arts, Los Angeles, USA (2021); Et al., San Francisco (2019); Bortolami Gallery, New York (2019); Bahamas Biennale, Detroit (2018). Group exhibitions with the artist have taken place at: Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles (2022); kaufmann repetto, New York and Milan (2021); TANK, Shanghai (2020); CLEARING, New York (2020); Jan Kaps, Cologne (2020); The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2018-2019).
Her work is part of the collections of:
Boros Collection, Berlin
Philara Collection, Dusseldorf
X Museum, Beijing
Long Museum, Shanghai
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Farewell, 2022
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Madonna, 2022
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Oranges, 2022
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Skeleton Entombed, 2022
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Blue Umbrella, 2021
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Fictions, 2021
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Grasshopper, 2021
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Happy Together, 2021
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Hsiao-kang, 2021
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Memory, 2021
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Nishi, 2021
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Skeletons Embracing, 2021
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Study of Titian´s Flaying of Marsyas, 2021
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Study of Titian´s Flaying of Marsyas, 2021
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The Journey, 2021
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Tree in a landscape, 2021
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Untitled, 2021
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Untitled, 2021
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Untitled, 2021
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Untitled, 2021
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Untitled, 2021
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Vicky, 2021
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A Birthday Carol 2, 2020
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Aesop looking at his reflection in a pond 6, 2020
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Flower of Buffoonery, 2020
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Jutta Koether on Agnes Martin, Artist on Artist Lecture Series, Dia Art Foundation, YouTube, August 1, 2020
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The Pillow Book, 2020
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Pan's Heart- Character Pond, 2018
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Snake and Tree in a Landscape, 2018
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Earstick, 2014-2019
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Frightened Dog, 2013
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BROOK HSU
exhibition view, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, 2023
Photo: Alessandro Cicoria and Valeria Giampietro
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BROOK HSU
exhibition view, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, 2023
Photo: Alessandro Cicoria and Valeria Giampietro
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BROOK HSU
exhibition view, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, 2023
Photo: Alessandro Cicoria and Valeria Giampietro
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BROOK HSU
exhibition view, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, 2023
Photo: Alessandro Cicoria and Valeria Giampietro
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BROOK HSU
exhibition view, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, 2023
Photo: Alessandro Cicoria and Valeria Giampietro
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BROOK HSU
exhibition view, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, 2023
Photo: Alessandro Cicoria and Valeria Giampietro
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BROOK HSU
exhibition view, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, 2023
Photo: Alessandro Cicoria and Valeria Giampietro
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exhibition view, Fictions, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2021 -
BROOK HSU
exhibition view, Fictions, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2021
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exhibition view, Fictions, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2021 -
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exhibition view, Fictions, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2021 -
BROOK HSU
exhibition view, Fictions, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2021
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exhibition view, Fictions, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2021 -
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exhibition view, Fictions, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, 2021 -
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exhibition view, Blue Bunny, Manual Arts, Los Angeles, 2021
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exhibition view, Blue Bunny, Manual Arts, Los Angeles, 2021 -
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exhibition view, Blue Bunny, Manual Arts, Los Angeles, 2021 -
BROOK HSU
exhibition view, Blue Bunny, Manual Arts, Los Angeles, 2021
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exhibition view, pond-love, Bortolami Gallery, New York, 2019 -
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exhibition view, pond-love, Bortolami Gallery, New York, 2019 -
BROOK HSU
exhibition view, pond-love, Bortolami Gallery, New York, 2019