Su Yu-Xin (b.1991, Taiwan) considers painting a place where multiple disciplines and various perceptual capacities intersect, and places particular emphasis on the medium of painting as reflecting the discovery and re-invention of the material world. In her view, 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 and restitutions, as well as the exploitation of pigments and their trades.
Her recent solo exhibitions include: “Dust that Rides the Wind”, Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, 2023; “Parallel Impressionism”, Liste Art Fair Basel, online, 2020; “Almost No Memory”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2020; “A Hue to Spell”, KuanDu Museum of Fine Art, Taipei, 2019. Selected group exhibitions include: “Upstairs Cities”, ASE Foundation, Shanghai, 2023; “Magic Square: Art and Literature in Mirror Image”, 2022 Beijing Biennial, Friendship Art Community, Beijing, China, 2022-23, “The Rearview Landscape, or a Trip of Ownership”, UCCA Dune, Beidaihe, Hebei province, China, 2021-22; “In the Labrylinth”, Edouard Malingue gallery, Shanghai, 2021; “Let Painting Talk”, Taikang Space, Beijing, 2020-21; “The Eighth Huayu Youth Award Exhibition: A Long Hello”, UCCA, Beijing, 2020; ”Blue”, Lawrie Shabibi Gallery, Dubai, 2020; “The Picture Is Not at Ease”, MadeIn Gallery, Shanghai, 2020; “hic sunt leones”, 798 Art Centre, Beijing, 2019; “Taiwan Biennial – Wild Rhizome”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, 2018; “Building Code Violation III, Special Economic Zone”, Long March Space, Beijing, 2018; “Trembling Surfaces”, Long March Space, Beijing, 2016; “Future Island”, Saatchi Gallery, London, 2016; “Refuse: Refuge: Re-fuse”, The Koppel Project, London, 2016; “Small press project”, University College London, London, 2016.
