Pearl C. Hsiung

Taiwanese American

BiographyPearl 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.

"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

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.

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