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, and is presently based in New York. She is known for interweaving the fantastical, the mythopoetic and the autobiographical through an array of mediums, creating a distinct species of apparitional, haunting imagery. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, writing and felt making, Hsu produces abstract and figurative works that employ a host of pagan signs and motifs, most notably the demigod of Pan, recounting stories of love, pain and humour. Her art, which focuses on examining pre-Christian myths, histories, modern literature, films and personal histories is at once psychedelic and tranquil, revealing the ways in which existing narratives can induce fear, anxiety, joy and sadness in the contemporary time. Depicting voluptuous, emaciated, demonic, satyric bodies, fashioning shroud-like, torn and ephemeral clothing, or reanimating memories of her beloved dog in the form of a clay boot, Hsu masterfully associates disparate themes and subjects, revisits forsaken icons, and invents new forms.

New York City

Elizabeth Canfield Hicks Award, Yale University

Pullman

Toronto

Art Toronto

Derosia

Adler Beatty

Los Angeles

Hannah Hoffman Gallery

Magenta Plains

47 Canal

Bureau

Milan

Kaufmann Repetto

Matthew Brown

San Francisco

Et al.

Clima

Köln

Jan Kaps

London

Soft Opening

Vienna

Gianni Manhattan

Stockholm

Loyal

Château Shatto

In Lieu

St. Louis

Monaco

Deli Gallery

Chicago

Carrie Secrist Gallery

Detroit

Bahamas Bienniale

Kansas City

Dodge Painting Gallery

Hong Kong

Kiang Malingue

Bortolami

Beijing

X Museum

Shanghai

Tank Shanghai

Renaissance Society

Bbqla

Navel Space

Abrons Art Center

Double Double Land

H&R Block Artspace

Long Museum

Manual Arts

Brook Hsu

New Haven

Yale University

Kansas City Art Institute

Untitled (Skull)