Born in 1991 in Hualien, Taiwan, China
Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA
Su Yu-Xin (b. 1991) considers painting as a place where multiple disciplines and various perceptual capacities intersect. Painters have always played a vital role in the visual art industry, and the medium of painting reflects the discovery and re-invention of the material world. Hence, paintings bear witness to the history of the exchange between cultures and nature and project the painter's role through wars and migrations; they manifest territorial invasions, restitutions, the exploitation of pigments and their trades. While the history of painting often emphasizes the stylistic evolution of image production, the technology of color pigments also evolves contemporaneously.
Su Yu-Xin collects, studies, and processes these color substances scattered on the earth's crust. From there, she invents a new order on the painting surface through drawing, compression, and accumulation. For her, such landscape painting is a geological practice of rearranging plants, minerals, organic and synthetic matters.
education
Sep.2014 – July. 2016 Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, MFA Painting
Sep.2013 – Feb.2014 Taipei National University of The Arts (TNUA), MFA, Major in Painting
Sep.2009 – Jun.2013 Taipei National University of The Arts (TNUA), BFA, Major in Chinese Painting
solo shows
2023
- Dust that Rides the Wind, Longlati Foundation, Shanghai
2020
- Parallel Impressionism, List Art Fair Basel, Online
2019
- A Hue to Spell, KuanDu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei
group shows
Selected Group Shows
2021-2022
- The Rearview Landscape, or a Trip of Ownership, UCCA Dune, Beidaihe
2021
- A Higher Calling, White Space Beijing, Beijing
2021
- In the Labrylinth, Edouard Malingue gallery, Shanghai
2020-2021
- Let Painting Talk, Taikang Space, Beijing
2020
- A Long Hello, UCCA, Beijing
- Blue, Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai
- The Picture Is Not at Ease, Madein Gallery, Shanghai
2019-2020
- Almost No Memory, Madein Gallery, Shanghai
2019
- Hic sunt leones, 798 Art Centre, Beijing
2018
- Taiwan Biennial - Wild Rhizome, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung
- Building Code Violation III, Special Economic Zone, Long March Space, Beijing
2016
- Trembling Surfaces, Long March Space, Beijing
- Future Island, Saatchi Gallery, London
awards
2020
- Huayu Youth Award Nomination, China
Event and Publication
2021
- Let Painter Talk, Published by Taikang Space
2020
- Artist Talk “How to be both” at Shanghai Institute of Visual Arts
2017
- Artist lecture “Wet thought on dry images” at Taipei National University of Fine Arts, Taipei
2016
- In Conversation with Baroness Helena Kennedy, The Koppel Project, London
