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Hsu Yu-Jen

HSU YU-JEN

A Retrospective Taipei Fine Arts Museum 18 May–8 September 2024 Taipei
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Hsu Yu-jen (b. 1951-) was born in Jiali, Tainan, and graduated from the Department of National Painting, National Academy of Arts in 1975. He was mentored by Lee Chun-shan, who inspired him to pursue creative freedom and explore the self. After his solo exhibition at the American Cultural Center in 1979, Hsu traveled to the U.S. with the hope of immersing himself in the modern and contemporary art scene and developing the absolute originality in his mind. Having traveled between Taiwan and the U.S. for three times in a decade, Hsu moved his entire family back to Taiwan in 1989. Hsu works with both ink and oil painting, and used to create stone sculptures as well.

However, throughout his career, the exploration of the essence and innovative expression of Eastern ink painting has always been his steadfast and consistent endeavor. After 2000, he has published various series stemming from dissimilar concepts, including The Ocean Series, Thin-brush Ink Painting Series, Rough-brush Ink Painting Series, Color Painting Series, and Ink Scribing Series. This exhibition is the artist’s first large-scale retrospective in his five-decade-long career, which systematically teases out his sketches, drawings, early experimental works, and so on, showcasing his creative trajectory and spiritual context.

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The mission of the Taipei Fine Arts Museum is to promote the preservation, research, development and popularization of Taiwanese modern and contemporary art; to keep abreast of global trends and establish a variety of channels for exchange; to raise the general public’s understanding of and participation in modern art; to help Taiwanese modern and contemporary art to thrive; and to cultivate fuller artistic attainment in the people, in the hope of forming a contemporary society with aesthetic sense and cultural perception.

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Taipei 181 Zhong Shan North Road Section 3
Taipei Fine Arts Museum contemporary art institution in Taipei Taiwan
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
181 Zhong Shan North Road Section 3, Taipei, Taiwan
+886 2 2595 7656
http://www.tfam.museum

Opening hours
Tuesday – Sunday
9:30am – 5:30pm

Open until 8:30pm on Saturdays
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