Shirley Tse
Shirley Tse (Chinese: 謝淑妮)[1] is an American contemporary artist born in Hong Kong (now a US citizen residing in Los Angeles). Tse's work is often installation based and incorporates sculpture, photography and video, and explores sculptural processes as models of multi-dimensional thinking and negotiation. She is faculty in the School of Art at California Institute of the Arts, and was the Co-Director of the Program in Art from 2011-2014. She is co-organizer of the ReMODEL Sculpture Education Now symposia series and has been visiting faculty at Yale School of Art, Northwestern University, California College of Arts and Crafts (San Francisco), and Claremont Graduate University.
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Nationality | American |
Known for | Visual Art/Sculpture |
Awards | John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 2009 - California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists, 2012 - City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship, 2008. |
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Traditional Chinese | 謝淑妮 | ||||||||||
Simplified Chinese | 谢淑妮 | ||||||||||
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Shirley Tse was born in the late 1960s in Hong Kong.[2] Her sculptures, installations and photographs have been included in numerous museum exhibitions worldwide, among them are The Biennale of Sydney[3](including Polymathistyrene 2000), Bienal Ceara America, Brazil, Kaohshiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada, Museum of Modern Art, Bologna, Italy, San Francsico Museum of Modern Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, Kettle's Yard, UK, and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand. Her work has been included in numerous articles, catalogues and publications including Sculpture Today by Phaidon (2007) and Akademie X - Lessons in Art + Life (2015).[4] Tse's work is in public collections such as Rhode Island School of Design Museum, RI, M+, Hong Kong and Hong Kong Heritage Museum, Hong Kong.
She received the City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship in 2008, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2009,[5] and the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists in 2012.[6] Art commissions included Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA (2002), and Tse was artist-in-residence at the America Art Foundation Project, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, The Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME.
Shirley Tse was selected to represent Hong Kong in the 2019 Venice Biennale, the first woman artist to present a solo show in the Hong Kong Pavilion at the Biennale.[7] 2019 Venice Biennale [8]
References
- "膠塑、塑體—謝淑妮、文晶瑩作品展 - Para Site". www.para-site.org.hk. Retrieved 2019-03-09.
- "Profile: Shirley Tse". Asian Art. March 3, 2012. Archived from the original on September 15, 2014.
- "Richard Grayson - curatorial - Biennale of Sydney 2002".
- "Akademie X".
- "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Shirley Tse".
- http://my.calfund.org/artist-gallery/gallery/year-2012/shirley-tse/
- "About time: Hong Kong picks female for solo show at Venice Biennale". 29 June 2018.
- "Biennale Arte 2019 | Information". 2 February 2018.