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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Su-Chen Hung grew up in Taiwan and has lived in San Francisco since 1977. Studying Chinese Literature at Tunghai University in Taiwan, she later graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology. She earned her BFA in Photography and her MFA in Filmmaking at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Hung’s work is simple and elegant. Sometimes intensely personal, sometimes a dialogue with cultural and social subjects, the work always begins with a conceptual and visual core idea. Both her studio work and her large-scale public art projects have a meditative aura. She creates places of contemplation and repose.

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PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

1985   Master of Fine Arts; Filmmaking, San Francisco Art Institute, California

1981   Bachelor of Fine Arts; Photography, San Francisco Art Institute, California

1974   Bachelor of Arts; Sociology, Tunghai University, Taiwan

SELECTED AWARDS AND HONORS

2015   Nominee for Taishin Arts Award, Taiwan

2015   Arctic Circle Summer Solstice Expedition

2013   Artist in Residence, Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA

2013   Grant, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan

2011   Grant, Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan

2010   Grant, Individual Artist Commissions Grant, San Francisco Arts Commission, CA

2010   Grant, Council for Cultural Affairs, Taiwan

2009   Fellowship/ Artist-In-Residence, Invited by Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan

2008   Grant, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan

2008   Grant, Taipei City Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei, Taiwan

2007   Grant, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan

2006   Grant, Taipei City Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei, Taiwan

2006   Grant, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan

2006   Fellowship/Artist-in-Residence, Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA

2002   Winner of the Crescordia Award for Excellent Environmental Art in Public Places, Valley Forward Association, Phoenix, AZ

2002   Fellowship/Artist-in-Residence, Project Space, Headlands Center for the Arts,

2001   Fellowship, New Genre, California Arts Council, CA

2000   Fellowship/Artist-in-Residence, Franconia Sculpture Park/Jerome Fellowship, Shafer, MN

1997–98   1st National Interdisciplinary Fellowship / Artist-in-Residence, McKnight Foundation, Minneapolis, MN

1996–98   Fellowship/Artist-in-Residence for Memory project, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA

1992   Fellowship/Artist-in-Residence, Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA

1990   Fellowship/Artist-in-Residence, Exploratorium,, Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA

1988   Completion Grant, Film Arts Foundation, San Francisco, CA

1988–89   National Artist in Residence, P. S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY

1987–88   New Genre Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts

1987   Interdisciplinary Grant, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA (Funded by NEA / Rockefeller Foundation)

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2015   Installations; Hung Means Red, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan (Catalogue)

2013   Installation; Ants in the City, Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2011   Installation; Cascading Red, in conjunction with 2011 Huayi Chinese Festival of Arts, Esplanade Concourse, Singapore

2009   Installation; Tree with Arteries, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan

2008   Installation; Time, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan

2008   Installation; Our Own Land Where I Found This Landscape, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

2007   Installation; Red Trace, Kala Art Institute; Berkeley, CA (two-person Kala Fellowship show)

2007   Installation; Meandering, It Park, Taipei, Taiwan

2004   Installation; Red Sea Series, Art Galleries, Northridge, California State University, CA

1998   Installation; Red Thread Man, Intermedia Arts Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (catalog)

1996   Installations and Sculpture; Support of Art, The Kiss, Richard Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis, CA

1995   Video Installation; On the Way Home, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

1987   Installation; Within/Beyond, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

1987   Performance/Video Installation; Sweet Red–2, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NewYork, NY

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015   Video installations; ‘Rewind’ and Video Art in Taiwan, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan (Catalogue)

2014   Video Installation; Whomen-In the Name of Asian Women Artists, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2014   Public Video Screening; Contemporary Video Square, MOCA, Taipei, Taiwan

2013   Sculpture; Flo Oy Wong’s 75x75…, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, CA

2012   Video Projection; The Experiment of "Abstract Space", Art in the 80's in Taiwan, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2012   Installation; The Future is NOW: Asian America On Its Own Terms, Asian Pacific Islander 15th Anniversary, SOMArts Gallery,
           San Francisco, CA

2011   Installation; Time in Space, Macroom Town Hall Gallery, Dublin, Ireland (Catalogue)

2011   Two video works at Trickhouse, vol. 12

2010   Installation; With These Walls We Are Shaped, The Independents Liverpool Biennial 2010, Wolstenholme Creative Space,
           Liverpool, United Kingdom

2010   Photos; Documentation of Water/Grass, Mongolia 360º 1st Land Art Biennial, National Modern Art Gallery, Ulaan Baatar,
           Mongolia (Catalogue)

2010   Three Installations; (Re-)Claim, 13th United States of Asian America Festival. SOMArts Main Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2010   Installation; 6th Taipei Annual Chinese Character Festival, Chiang Kai Shek Memorial Hall, Taipei, Taiwan (Catalogue)

2009   Two Installations; Primeval Portraits, Aomori Contemporary Art Centre, Aomori, Japan (Catalogue, Three Resident Artists show)

2009   Video Installation; Merging Emerging-Art, Utopia and Virtual Reality, MOCA, Shanghai, China

2008   Video Installation; Home, First Taiwan Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan (Catalogue)

2008   Outdoor Video Projection; Hotbed: Video Cultivation besides the Getty Gardens, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
           (Catalogue)

2008   Video Installation; Outside In: A New Focus on Taiwanese Art, TECO, New York, NY (Catalogue)

2007   Photograph/Video; Cultivating Creativity, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

2006   Installation/Video; Keki Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2005   Installation; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2004   Installation; NEXUS: Taiwan in Queens, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY (Catalogue)

2004   Videotape; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, NY

2002   Installation; Memory, California Science Center, Los Angeles, CA

2002   Videotape; Project 8, Total Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

2002   Video Sculpture; ARCO, Madrid, Spain

2001   Videotape; The Gravity of the Immaterial, Inauguration of Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan (Catalog)

2000   Installation; Art and Environment, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ (Catalog)

1995   Sculpture; Old Glory, New Story: Flagging the 21st Century, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
            (Traveled from Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA)

1994   Installation; New World (Dis)Order, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Washington, D. C. (Catalogue, Traveled to Yerba Buena
           Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA; Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA; CN Gorman Museum, University of California, Davis, CA)

1989   Installation; Studio* Exhibition, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (Catalog)

 

SELECTED PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

2015   The Lotus Greets You, Water-Moon Monastery, Taipei, Taiwan

2015   So Near, Yet So Far, Museum of Contemporary Arts, Taipei, Taiwan

2014   Red Walk, "The Annual Lantern Festival", Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan

2013   Red Reunion, "The Chinese Lunar New Year Festival", Taipei, Taiwan

2010   Water/Grass, "MONGOLIA 360° 1st Land Art Biennial Mongolia," Gobi Dessert, Mongolia  

2008   In Praise of Light and Sound, Shisanhang Museum of Archaeology, Taipei, Taiwan

2007   Lift, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN

2006   Walk Around Time, Phillips Garden, Minneapolis, MN

1997–2003   WATER Spells, designed for public educational purpose for the 23rd Avenue Wastewater Treatment Plant in Phoenix, Arizona.
           Commissioned by Phoenix Arts Commission, AZCommissioned by Phoenix Arts Commission, funded with Water Services Department
           Percent for Art Funds, AZ (Winner of the Crescordia Award for Excellent Environmental Art in Public Places)

2000   Self-portrait in Rock, Franconia Sculpture Park, Shafer, MN

1994–2000   Welcome, A permanent installation at San Francisco Airport New International Terminal; San Francisco Arts Commission, CA

1998   Numéro 8, A series of posters in the streets of Marseille, Organized by CASA

1998   Gradual, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN (McKnight Fellowship)

1995   Reincarnation, Le Projet L. A. C.; A juried art project on Lake Leman in Switzerland (Collaboration with Jim Campbell)

1992   Silent Voice: I Have Something to Say, A public art project funded by San Francisco Arts Commission, CA
           (Collaboration with Gigi Janchang)

 

PUBLICATIONS

2016   Hung Means Red, Exhibition Catalogue, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan

1989   Videotape; East/West, Collection of Persistence of Vision, Voyager Press, Los Angeles CA

 

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2015   Yi-Xiu Lin, "Self-Revisiting Transauthors"
           ARTCO, (illus.), p.89-90, November, Taiwan

2015   Zi-Jin Gao, "Nostalgia Series"
           ARTCO, (illus.), p. 80-81, November, Taiwan

2015   Jia-Rong Guo, "Su-Chen Hung: So Near, Yet So Far"
           China Times, (illus.), February 2, Taiwan

2014   Song-Yong Sing, "Video Artist-Su-Chen Hung migrates between the US and Taiwan"
           ACT, (illus.), p. 56-67, No 59, Summer, July 1

2014   David Zlutnick, “Sites Speak to Her”
           Forecast Public Art, June 16

2014   Diana Gadaldi, “A conversation with Su-Chen Hung: resonances from the past and a look into her future projects”
           Droste Effect Mag, January 20

2013   Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
            "Su-Chen Hung: Meet the Artist" – YouTube
           Video by Derek Klein, Artwork by Su-Chen Hung, October 19

2013   Jonathan Curiel, "Artist's Statement: Why Ants and Chickens Make Ideal Art Projects for Su-Chen Hung"
           SF Weekly, April 19, San Francisco

2011   John Daly, "Time in Space,"
           Culturefox.ie August, Ireland

2011   Carl Dixon, "Giving you the space to meditate on time"
           Irish Examiner, August 11, p. 14, Cork, Ireland

2011   Giselle MinHwa Yun, "The red thread mends human and nature,"
           Point, (illus.), May, p. 104-111, Vol. 3, Seoul, South Korea

2011   Qi-Ji Wu, "Su-Chen Hung’s installation – Cascading Red"
           United Early News, (illus.), January, Singapore

2010   Jennifer Savage, “Relevance, Rebellion and Redemption"
           North Cost Journal.com, September 9, Eureka, California

2009   Elizabeth Wilson, "Hung, Su-Chen, Tree with Arteries"
           Sculpture, (illus.), September, p. 79, Vol. 28, No. 7, Hamilton, New Jersey

2009   Su-Chen Hung, “Planting the Seed,"
           New York Arts Magazine, (illus.), p. 75, Vol. 14, Summer, New York City, New York

2009   Qing, “Su-Chen Hung,"
           Digital Art China, September 5th, Beijing, China

2008   Chen Shu-Juan, “Reading the Personal Landscape; Su-Chen Hung’s Our Own Land Where I Found This Landscape,"
           ARTCO, (illus.), June, p. 153-155, No. 188, Taipei, Taiwan

2007   Marya Morstad, "Interviews John Hock, Director of Franconia Sculpture Park"
           Radio mnartists, May 28, Minneapolis, MN

2005   Emma Tramposch, "Reviews/West Coast,"
           ART PAPERS, November/December, Atlanta, GA

2005   Amber Whiteside, "Blueprints at Intersection for the Arts,"
           Artweek, September, San Francisco, CA

2005   David Wiegand, "Embraced by the Community, Part Five: The Future,"
           San Francisco Chronicle, June 17, San Francisco, CA

2005   Jean Schiffman, “If Walls Could Talk: Intersection Kicks Off Its 40th Anniversary,"
           San Francisco Arts Monthly, June, Vol. 16, No. 12, San Francisco, CA

2005   Ellen Zweig, “The Artist at Work - A review of Su-Chen Hung’s Red Sea Series,"
           ARTCO, (illus.), May, p. 142-145, Taipei, Taiwan

2005   Glen Helfand, “Hairy Bodies,"
           ARTFORUM online, Critics’ Picks, February, San Francisco

2004   Kaoru Yanase, “Contemporary Art from Taiwan, Nexus,"
           Bijutsutejo, August, p. 150, Vol. 56, No. 853, Japan

2002   Susan Ressler, “It’s All About the Apple, Or Is It?”
           Women Artists of the American West, Chapter 9, Published by McFarland & Company, Inc.

2001   Mason Riddle, "Franconia Ramps Up Season of Art as Big as all Outdoors,"
           St. Paul Pioneer Press (illus.) June 20, pp. 1E-2E, Saint Paul, MN