Su Hui-Yu (b. 1976, Taiwan).

Su Hui-Yu

B. 1976, Taiwan.

Su obtained an MFA from Taipei National University of the Arts in 2003 and has remained active in the contemporary art scene ever since.

The Taiwanese artist’s works are about exploring the connection between mass media, pop culture, memories of martial law, and the post-colonial history of Taiwan and East Asia.​

EDUCATION

2003M.F.A, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

1998B. A. in Fine Art, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

AWARD

2018Kaohsiung Shorts Award (Kaohsiung Film Festival)

2017“The Next Production Award” of Bureau of Audiovisual and Music Industry Development

2009ACC(Asian Cultural Council), Yageo Tech-Art Award

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021

  • The Cinema of Séance, 1646, The Hague, The Netherlands

2020

  • The Women’s Revenge, Double Square, Taipei, Taiwan 

2017

  • Wu-Yeh-Chang, Titanik Galleria, Turku, Finland
  • Life, Pleasure and the Reading Room, TCAC, Taipei, Taiwan

2015

  • A Man After Midnight, Double Square Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Thou Shalt not Self-pollute, Absolute Space for the Arts&Fotoaura institute of photograph, Tainan, Taiwan

2014

  • A Slow Universe Comes With Something Like Death, Kuandu Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • A Poignant Dance in the Mass Media History, AM Space, Hong Kong, China
  • Day& Night, Apartment der Kunst, Munich, German
  • Whale Mass Suicide, IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan

2012

  • The Upcoming Show, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan

2010

  • Stilnox Home Video, Tina Keng Gallery,Taipei, Taiwan

2009

  • The Fabled Shoots ll – Bloody Beauty, Lin & Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2007

  • The Fabled Shoots, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan

2006

  • My Pop Life, IT Park, Taipei, Taiwan

2005

  • Endless Recalling, Chi-Wen Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Endless recalling – No.3, Gallery Tc284, Taipei, TaiwanFilm Festival

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021

  • From Object to Cosmos, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • Revenge Scenes, Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Xindian Boys, The Untitled Year, VT Artsalon, Taipei, Taiwan

2020

  •  2nd Chroniques- the Biennale of Digital Imagination, Marseille, French
  • Re:Play, C-Lab, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Daisuke Miyatsu: 25 years of video art, Alien Art Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • The Body Series: To the Unknown, Somerset House, London, United Kingdom
  • Being of Evils, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
  • Short Film Programme: The Films We Remake, Asian Film Archive, Singapore

2019

  • Performa 19, New York, U.S.A
  • SPECTROSYNTHESIS II: Exposure of Tolerance: LGBTQ in Southeast Asia, BACC, Bangkok, Thailand
  • Elysium – The Spiritual Journey of Yao Jui Chung & Su Hui-Yu, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
  • 14th Curitiba International Biennial of Contemporary ArtCuritiba Biennial, Curitiba, Brazil
  • Courses of Action, Goethe Institut Hong Kong, Hong Kong
  • VIDEONALE 17: REFRACTED REALITIES, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
  • Now Is The Time, Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Wuzhen, China

2018

  • Move On Asia 2018, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
  • Taiwan Biennial: Wild rhizome, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taichung, Taiwan
  • Video On The Phone, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Dream Maker, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2017

  • Tropical Cyclone, Kuandu Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Spectrosynthesis: Asian LGBTQ Issues and Art Now, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Osiris and Ganesha, Marso, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Resting Transmissions, The Ryder, London, UK
  • Spain Moving Images Festival, Matadero Madrid, Madrid, Spain
  • A Nonexistent Place, Jut Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Pheong Chang Biennial, Pheong Chang, Korea

2016

  • Taiwan Biennial: The Possibility of an Island, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taichung, Taiwan
  • Like Too Loud of Solitude, MoNTUE, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Video and the Third Person’s Perception, Galleria Heng, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Dance with the Museum Collection – Retrieved, Reimagined, Restated, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Double Vision, Double Square Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Very Image, Shalini Ganendra Fine Art, Kuala Lumpur, Malasia
  • Hitchpunk, Unpainted Art Fair, Munich, Germany

2015

  • Our Eyes, Double Square Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Asian Arts Space Network, Asian Cultural Complex, Gwangju, Korea
  • People Mountain People Sea, Inart Space, Tainan, Taiwan

2014

  • The Pioneers of Taiwanese Artist, 1971-1980, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taichung, Taiwan
  • Jie (Boundaries): Contemporary Art from Taiwan, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, U.S.A.
  • Censorship: The 7th Move on Asia, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, Korea
  • Artshow Busan 2014, BEXCO, Busan, Koren
  • For for for forest, Tina Keng Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

2013

  • Cutlog NY, New York, U.S.A
  • Pause in Time and Space, Taipei Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Trans-allegory- Highlights if New Media Arts from the Museum Collection, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taichung, Taiwan
  • 6th VIDEOHOLICA Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria
  • Gazing into Freedom: Taiwan Contemporary Art Exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art of Vojvodina, Novi Sad, Serbia
  • Luxembourg City Film Festival, Casino Luxembourg- Forum d’art Contemporain, Luxembourg

2012

  • Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Kaohsiung Museum Of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • Ambiguous Being, temtemART, Berlin, Germany; Kav 16, Tel Aviv, Israel; Houg-Gah Museum, Taipe

2011

  • Videonale- Dialogue in Contemporary Video Art, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taichung, Taiwan
  • Live Ammo, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Republic without People, Kaohsiung Museum Of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
  • The Taishin Arts Award, Kaohsiung Museum Of Fine Art, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2010

  • Eattopia- Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Taipei Biennial- Artist Cinema, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
  • The 7th Busan International Video Festival, Community Media Center, Busan, Korea
  • Pause in Time and Space, MADATAC, Madrid, Spain
  • MID_E International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Arteleku, San Sebastian, Spain
  • Forum Biennial of Taiwanese Contemporary Art, TCAC, Taipei, Taiwan
  • 3rd VIDEOHOLICA Video Art Festival, Varna, Bulgaria
  • The Contemporary Art of Taiwan, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Gyeongnam, Korea
  • Post adolescence, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taichung, Taiwan; NTMoFA, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Extreme Sensibility-Taiwanese Contemporary Video Art, Dishman Art Museum of Lamar University, Houston, U.S.A
  • Plastic Life, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, U.S.A.

2009

  • Extreme Sensibility-Taiwanese Contemporary Video Art, Donna Beam Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vega, U.S.A
  • ROOM 19, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

2008

  • The Taishin Arts Award, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Illusion Theater, Blue Dot Asia ,Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea

2007

  • Poetic Terrorism, FEM Festival, Madrid, Spain
  • Very Fun Park II, Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan

2006

  • Wrong(ed) Attitudes – Tsui Kuang-yu & Su Hui-yu, Sparwasser HQ, Berlin, Germany; CCTP, Paris, France

2005

  • The New Taiwanese – Digital Witnesses, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
  • Pseudo Hackers’ Art in Parallel Zones, MOCA Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan

2004

  • Scene-Stealer, Nan Hai Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
  • The 3rd Artists: Expo. ,Huashan Arts District, Taipei, Taiwan

2003

  • Super King Kung-Taiwan Contemporary Performance Video Arts, Pig Art Café, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2002

  • CO2-Taiwan Avant-Garde Documenta, Huashan Arts District, Taipei, Taiwan
  • New Field Art Festival, SLY Art, Taipei, Taiwan
  • The Field of the Texts, Main Trend Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan

Film Festival

2021

  • International Film Festival – Tiger Short competition, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Frameline 45, San Francisco, U.S.A

2020

  • London Short Film Festival 2020, ICA, London, UK

2019

  • International Film Festival – Tiger Short competition, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Frameline 43, San Francisco, U.S.A

2018

  • International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Moscow, Russia
  • IndieLisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
  • BIEFF, Bucharest, Romania

2017

  • International Film Festival Rotterdam- Tiger Short competition, Rotterdam, The Netherlands,
  • BAFICI, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  • VIS, Vienna, Austria
  • IKFF, Hamburg, Germany
  • Festival du nouveau cinéma, Montreal, Canada
  • Moscow International Experimental Film Festival, Moscow, Russia
  • Gijón International Film Festival, Gijón, Spain

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE

2014Apartment der Kunst, Munich, Germany

2013Egon Schiele Art Center, Cesky Krumlov , Czech

2009Harvestworks Digital Arts Center, New York , USA

200818th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, USA