Since the mid-1980s, Tishan Hsu has been at the forefront of exploring the effects of technological transformation, rendering poetic reimaginings of the human body through innovative materials and digital processes. His approach to the intersections of organic and artificial life has made him one of the most prescient voices in contemporary art today. For nearly five decades, Hsu has investigated the evolving relationship between humans and technology. Though he gained early recognition in the 1980s with solo exhibitions in New York, he spent much of the following decades working outside the public eye, refining his ideas about digital culture, the body, and perception. Early works from this period introduced his now recognizable aesthetic—blurring the boundaries between flesh and technology through biomorphic forms, industrial surfaces, and a visual language evocative of digital systems. Hsu’s work now resonates even further in an era where physical and virtual realities are increasingly enmeshed.

Hsu’s work has been widely exhibited internationally, with recent solo presentation at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (2024), Secession in Vienna (2023-24), and MAMCO in Geneva (2024). He has participated in major group exhibitions such as The Milk of Dreams at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) and Is it morning for you yet? at the 58th Carnegie International (2022). His work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Tate Modern, London; Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt; MAMCO Geneva, Switzerland; and M+, Hong Kong, among others.