Su Yu-Xin b. 1991

Su Yu-Xin (b. 1991, Hualien) considers painting as a place where multiple disciplines and various perceptual capacities intersect. Painters have always played a vital role in the visual art industry, and the medium of painting reflects the discovery and re-invention of the material world. Hence, paintings bear witness to the history of the exchange between cultures and nature and project the painter's role through wars and migrations; they manifest territorial invasions, restitutions, the exploitation of pigments and their trades. While the history of painting often emphasizes the stylistic evolution of image production, the technology of color pigments also evolves contemporaneously. Su Yu-Xin collects, studies, and processes these color substances scattered on the earth's crust. From there, she invents a new order on the painting surface through drawing, compression, and accumulation. For her, such landscape painting is a geological practice of rearranging plants, minerals, organic and synthetic matters.

Su Yu-Xin holds an MFA degree from Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, and a BA in Ink Painting from Taipei National University of Arts. Recent solo exhibitions have been held at Longlati Foundation, Shanghai (2023); List Art Fair Basel, Online (2020); and KuanDu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei (2019). The artist has an upcoming solo exhibition at Orange County Museum of Art in early 2025. Su has shown internationally in numerous group exhibitions including at Gagosian, Hong Kong (2023); Blum & Poe, Tokyo (2023); Beijing Biennial 2022, Beijing; Perrotin, Shanghai (2023); UCCA Dune, Beidaihe, (2021-2022); UCCA, Beijing (2020); and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung (2018), among others.  In 2020, Su received the Huayu Youth Award Nomination, China.