Ascribing human status to nature reveals and muddies the distinction between human and non-human and highlights the range that anthropocentric logic reaches in order to sustain an anthropo-friendly ecology.
— Pearl C. Hsiung
Pearl C. Hsiung’s painting, installation and video works utilize various techniques to investigate the perceptions of our relationship to and within nature as viewed through anthropocentric, sublime, and metaphysical contexts. More recent works challenge the physical and theoretical boundaries between human, nature, and artificial to consider how this entanglement of human/nature/artificial impacts landscapes, how it changes our imagining and imaging of landscape, and disrupts our understanding of ecology.
She has exhibited in solo shows in Los Angeles, London and Kunming, China as well as in group exhibits including The Beyond; Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art at the North Carolina Museum of Art and Crystal Bridges Museum of Art; Made in L.A. 2012 at the Hammer Museum, California Biennial 2006 at the Orange County Museum of Art; Busan Biennale 2006 at Museum of Modern Art in South Korea and Expander at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. She received a CCF Fellowship for Visual Arts, Getty Fellow, 2015 Mid-Career Artist grant.
Pearl C. Hsiung is currently working on a large-scale, glass mosaic mural commissioned by LA County Metro. High Prismatic will be located at the Grand Av Arts/Bunker Hill station in DTLA slated to open in 2022.
Born in Taichung, Taiwan
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
| 2004 |
MA, Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, UK |
| 2003 |
Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, UK |
| 1997 | BA, School of Art and Architecture, University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2019 |
Visitor Welcome Center, ‘Fault Zone’, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2018 |
Gallery at College of the Canyons, ‘Two Faces, One Die’, Valencia, CA |
| 2017 |
Visitor Welcome Center, ‘Full Gorge’, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2015 | O.N.O, ‘Whiskeytown’, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2014 |
Human Resources, ‘Yellowstoner’, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2011 | Vincent Price Art Museum, East Los Angeles College, ‘Gusher: Pearl C Hsiung, Selected Works 2003 - 2011’, Monterey Park, CA |
| 2010 | Steve Turner Contemporary, ‘Never Ends’, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2007 | Steve Turner Contemporary, ‘Eroto Erupto Infinito’, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2006 | Max Wigram Gallery, ‘To the Big Life’, London, UK |
| 2004 | MW Projects, ‘Overfiend’, London, UK |
| Upriver Gallery, ‘Pearl C. Hsiung’, Kunming, China |
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Pearl C. HsiungThey (Gomukh), 2019Acrylic on canvas86.4 x 116.8 cm
34 x 46 in -
Pearl C. HsiungThey (Taranaki Falls), 2019Acrylic on canvas76.2 x 61 cm
30 x 24 in -
Pearl C. HsiungSige, 2017Acrylic and spray paint on canvas101.6 x 76.2 cm
40 x 30 in -
Pearl C. HsiungSimurgh II, 2017Acrylic and spray paint on canvas198.1 x 152.4 cm
78 x 60 in -
Pearl C. HsiungUnrest, 2017Enamel and sumi ink on paper66 x 61 cm
26 x 24 in -
Pearl C. HsiungBody God, 2016Oil-based enamel on canvas81.3 x 81.3 cm
32 x 32 in -
Pearl C. HsiungPhoenix, 2016Acrylic and spray paint on canvas76.2 x 61 cm
30 x 24 in -
Pearl C. HsiungWetter, 2016Acrylic and spray paint on canvas76.2 x 61 cm
30 x 24 in -
Pearl C. HsiungBurning Alive, 2015Enamel, ink and watercolor on paper83.8 x 106.7 cm
33 x 42 in -
Pearl C. HsiungRing of Fire, 2015Enamel, ink and watercolor on paper130.8 x 104.1 cm
51 1/2 x 41 in -
Pearl C. HsiungLychee-chees, 2005Oil-based enamel on canvas76.2 x 61 cm
30 x 24 in -
Pearl C. HsiungTidal Wretch, 2005Oil-based enamel on canvas218.4 x 162.6 cm
86 x 64 in
