Su-Mei Tse
BIOGRAPHY
Born 1973 in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg
Lives and works in Luxembourg and Berlin, Germany
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2019
Nested, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei City, Taiwan
2018
Nested, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
Nested, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Nested, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
2017
A Certain Lightness, AD Gallery, Athens, Greece
Between eggs, stones and floating balls, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Elegy, Edouard Malingue Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2016
Moony Tunes, Art Front Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2015
one thousand and one dreams behind us ..., Peter Blum Gallery, New York
2014
faded and the space between, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
… et à l’horizon il y avait l’orage, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Château des Adhémar, Montélimar, France
2012
The Source, Project One, Eslite bookstore, Hong Kong, China
2011
Distant Voices, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Lapses of Time, AD Gallery, Athens, Greece
Implicit Sound ESPAI 13/ FUNDACIÓ MIRÓ, Barcelona, Spain
2010
Stille Disco Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2009
Words and Memories, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, NY
Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco: Prize for Contemporary Art, Monaco
VARIATIONEN, Galerie Serge Le Borgne, Paris, France
Solo exhibition, Prix International d’Art Contemporain Fondation Prince Pierre, Monaco
Su-Mei Tse:Floating Memories, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
Su-Mei Tse, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
2008
East Wind, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
1000
words for snow, Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg
Bird Cage, public art project, Kirchberg, Luxembourg
2007
DUOLOGUE, Su-Mei Tse and Lee Mingwei, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Su-Mei Tse, Media Test Wall, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Boston, MA
Su-Mei Tse, Alpha Delta Gallery, Athens, Greece
2006
Su-Mei Tse, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Proposition de detour, Peter Blum Gallery Chelsea, New York, NY
The ICH Manifestation, Noctour by Contour Video Festival, Mechelen, Belgium
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
Albion Gallery, London, United Kingdom
... ... , Casino, Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
2005
Su-Mei Tse - Video works, Franklin Artworks, Minneapolis, USA
The Ich-Manifestation, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Su-Mei Tse SOLO, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark
2004
Recent Works, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA
Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
The First of Moderna Su-Mei Tse, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
JETZT, Alpha Delta Gallery, Athens, Greece
2003
air conditioned (Luxembourg pavilion / Golden Lion for the best national participation), 50th International
Art Exhibition, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
2002
Rien à voir, video projection, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2019
Land of the Lustrous, UCCA Center of Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2018
Reflection about about Reflection, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
SUPERPOSITION: Equilibrium & Engagement, 2018 Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2017
Listen Hear: The Art of Sound, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA
2016
Premier Regard 15 ans / 2001-2016, Bastille Design Center, Paris, France
GIGANTESQUE, EXPÉRIENCE POMMERY #13, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
Not Early Not Late, Pace Gallery, Beijing, China
Setouchi Triennial, Honjima. Japan
What is not Visible is Not Unvisible, National Museum of Singapore
Boom Bang III, NN, contemporary art space, Northampton, UK
People Like US, USNW, touring Exhibition, 2016-2019, Australia
2015-2016
About Trees, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
2015-2016
Là où commence le jour, lille3000 Renaissance in Villeneuve, LaM - Lille Métropole Musée d'art moderne, d'art contemporain et d'art brut , Villeneuve-d'Ascq, France
2015
Taking Time, The French Academy in Rome - Villa Medici, Rome
Conversation Piece, Part 1, Fondazione Memmo Arte Contemporanea, Rome
2014 - 2015
Guess What? Hardcore Contemporary Art's Truly a World Treasure: Selected Works from the YAGEO Foundation Collection, THe National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, June 20 - August 24, 2014; Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan, September 6 - October 26, 2014; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan, December 20, 2014 - March 8, 2015; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan, March 31 - May 3, 2015
2014
Days of Endless Time, Hirschorn Museum, Washington, DC
Mythos Wald? Historische und zeitgenössische Interpretation zum Thema Wald und Bäume, Neu Galerie im Haus Beda, Bitburg, Germany
Les Recontres International, Gaîté Lyrique et Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
NY-LUX, Edward Steichen Award, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2013
Rhythm in it: The rhythm in contemporary art, Aargau Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
St. Moritz Art Masters, St. Mortitz, Switerland
Little Water, Dojima River Biennale, Osaka, Japan
2012
10 Jahre in Zuoz, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Atelier Luxembourg, The Venice Biennale Projects 1988 – 2011, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand Duc Jean, Luxemburg
4 Films, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
Passing Time, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, De Pauw University, Greencastle IN
Passing Time, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
John Cage, KUAD Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
A House Full of Music, Strategien in Musik und Kunst, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany
Neon who’s afraid of red yellow and blue?, Maison rouge, Paris, France
2011
ANICROCHES, Variations, choral and fugue, The Espace culturel Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Incongru. Quand l’art fait rire, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Thirty Years Peter Blum Edition, Peter Blum Gallery Soho, New York
Pour une République des Rêves, curated by Gilles A. Tiberghien, CRAC Alsace, France
Silent Echo (Collection I + II), 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, ICA Boston, Massachusetts, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker
Quiet Attentions: Departure from Women, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
Echoes, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
Passing Time, Kranert Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL
Walking Through …, MUDAM Collection, MUDAM, Luxembourg
HELP ! exhibition to benefit the victims of the Japan earthquake, Galerie Premier Regard, Paris, France
2010
Signs of Life, Kunstmuseum Luzern Museum of Art, Lucerne, Switzerland curated by Peter Fischer und Brigitt Bürgi
The Yvonne Rainer Project, screening program, BFI Southbank, United Kingdom
The Record: Contemporary Art and Vinyl, Nasher Museum of Museum of Art at
Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker
New Sense of Order, Su-Mei Tse and Yves Netzhammer
Lebenszeichen, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland, curated by Peter Fischer and Brigitt Bürgi
BRAVE NEW WORLD, from the perspective of MUDAM Collection, Mudam, Luxembourg
CUE: Artists’ Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (group)
2009
ARTLV_09 - The Tel Aviv Bienial, Tel Aviv, Israel
Reflection: The World Through Art, Dojima River Biennale, Osaka, Japan
The Invasion of Sound, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Tenants at ReMap2, parallel project to the 2nd Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece
Far and Near: Nature in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Contemporary Art Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Biennale Cuvée, World Selection of Contemporary Art, OK, Linz, Austria
2008
Some Magical Clangs, Su-Mei Tse & Virginie Yassef, CRAC Alsace, France
WONDER, Singapore Biennale 2008, curated by Fumio Nanjo, Singapore
2007
Merveilleux, Chateau de Malbrook, Manderen, France
Kunstpreis Robert Schumann - Best of, Trier, Germany
Lieux Communs, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil (Paris), France
A L'Horizon de Shangri-La, Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain de Lorraine, Metz, France
Une Collection Pour Une Région, Chemins de Traversés GR FRAC Lorraine: 550 km, Musée de la Lutherie et de L’Archèterie Française, Mircourt, France
Body As Spectacle: Collections sans Frontières VII, Contemporary Art from the collections of Frac du Grand Est (Curated by Branko Franceschi), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rijeka, Croatia
Listening Awry (Curated by Jim Drobnick), McMaster Museum of Art, Ontario, Canada
In Midair, Sound Works Hong Kong 2007, Tokwawan, Hong Kong
Habit Forming: Contemporary Art from Portland Collections (Curated by Joel Leib), Feldman Gallery + Project Space, Portland, Oregon
SAMLING´07, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark
in midair_soundworks, Hong Kong, China
Listening Awry (curated by Jim Drobnick), McMaster Museum of Art, Ontario, Canada
2006
Tell me / raconte – moi, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennal 2006, Japan
Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Dans les Alpes-Panorama, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Women of Europe, Saint Tropez, France
2005
i-Dentity, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of i-D Magazine, London, United Kingdom
raconte-moi / tell me, Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec, Canada
Variations Xanadu, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Dis_appearance, Fri-Art, Kunsthalle Freiburg, Fribourg, Switzerland
AURAL CULTURES, Walter Philips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Radiodays, Stichting De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nouvelles Vagues, collections of the Musée National d’Art Moderne - Centre Georges Pompidou, Shanghai, Canton,
Beijing, China Irreducible: Contemporary Short Form Video, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Fransisco, USA
2004
18e Rencontres Parallèles, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Hérouville-Saint-Clair, France
26th São Paulo Biennial, São Paolo, Brazil
Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art – 18 Solo Exhibitions, Kinmen, Taiwan
InVisible Silence, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, USA
Fiction Love, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
Emotion 1, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
2003
Montagna arte scienza mito, MART, Rovereto, Italy
Affinités sélectives - Wahlverwandtschaften, Metz, France
Réalités_Collections sans frontières II, Galerie Zacheta, Warsaw, Poland
Scale 1:1, beaumontpublic + koenigbloc, Luxembourg
Mursollaici, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
Selected Bibliography
2019
Artforum. “MUST SEE EXHIBITION”, Artforum , November 22, 2019
Jambhekar, Neha. “Editors’ Picks: 15 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week”, Artnet News (online), November 18, 2019
In the Company of Artists, Exhibition Catalogue, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, 2019, pgs. 206-209
Thormod, Kaspar. Artistic Reconfigurations of Rome: An Alternative Guide to the Eternal City, 1989-2014, Brill Sense, Hotei Publishing, The Netherlands, 2019, pgs. 44, 69
“After an International Tour, Su-Mei Tse . Nested Arrives at Taipei Fine Arts Museum”, Hyperallergic (online), April 19, 2019
2018
Su-Mei Tse: NESTED Exhibition Catalogue, Aargauer Kunsthaus and Mudam Luxembourg, Sternberg Press, Berlin 2018
Sennewald, J. Emil. “Su-Mei Tse – Im grossen Raum des Atemzugs,” Kunstbulletin, June 2018
Jolles, Claudia. “The Weight of History,” Kunstbulletin, June 2018
BLOUIN ARTINFO. “Su-Mei Tse’s ‘Nested’ at a MUDAM”, BLOUIN ARTINFO (online), January 20, 2018
2014
‘“Days of Endless Time” at the Hirshhorn Delivers an Antidote to Information Overload’, The Huffington Post, November 6, 2014
“Exhibits at Hirshhorn, Kreeger museums offer a break from the bustle,” The Washington Post, September 6, 2014.
Guess What? Hardcore Contemporary Art’s Truly a World Treasure: Selected Works from the YAGEO Foundation Collection. Tokyo: The National Museum of Modern Art, 2014.
NY-LUX Edward Steichen Award 2004-2014, publié par Mudam Luxembourg & Edward Steichen Award Luxembourg a.s.b.l., February 2014
2013
Rhythm in it, Vom Rhythmus in der Gegenwartskunst, On Rhythm in Contemporary Art, published by Madeleine Schuppli & Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
2012
Neon, Le néon dans l’art des années 1940 à nos jours, published by La Maison Rouge, 2012
A House Full of Music. Strategien in Musik und Kunst, Edited by Ralf Beil, Peter Kraut, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Hatje Cantz, 2012.
Kunstbulletin Gisela Kuoni, Su-Mei Tse, ‹Distant Voices›, 3/2012 page 82-83
Johnson, Ken. “4 Films” The New York Times, 8 June. Section C pg. 26
Zimmer, Lori. "Passage of Time, Fragility of Memory," ArtSlant, May 13
2010
Schmerler, Sarah. "Su-Mei Tse - Exhibition Reviews" Art in America,March 2010, pg 151
Sennewald, J. Emil. "Su-Mei Tse - Klang im Blick" Kunst Bulletin, 1-2/2010 pg. 14
2009
Bergeron, Chris. "Su-Mei Tse," The MetroWest Daily (online), September 10, 2009
Banai, Nate. "Su-Mei Tse," Artforum, October 2009
Biennale Cuvée 2009, World Selection of Contemporary Art, OK books, exhibition catalogue, p. 21
"Su-Mei Tse" Exhibition Catalogue, Contemporary Art Gallery, Art Tower Mito, Feb 7 - May 10, 2009
2008
Francblin, Su-Mei Tse & Virginie Yassef, CRAC Alsace, art press n 350, Novembre 2008, p. 100
Farr, Shelia. "Su-Mei Tse's multimedia installation lives up to demanding setting of Seattle Asian Art Museum," The Seattle Times, July 2008
Graves, Jen. "Sound and Fury," The Stranger, April 2008
2006
Wei, Lilly. "Su-Mei Tse," ARTnews, December 2006.
LeMieux-Rutbal, Bruno. "Su-Mei Tse," Lapiz, no. 227, November 2006.
Gopnik, Blake, ‘Breathing Room Amid Chelsea’s Mega-Galleries’, The Washington Post, October 17th, 2006
Stringfield, Anne, ‘Goings On About Town’, The New Yorker, October 16th, 2006
Morton, Julia, ‘Walk the Line’, New York Press, October 18th, 2006
Koplos, Janet, ‘Su-Mei Tse at Franklin Art Works’, Art in America, October 2006
Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennal 2006, Japan raconte-moi / tell me, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
“Dentity”, published on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of i-D Magazine, London
raconte-moi/tell me, Musée des beaux-arts du Québec, Quebec, Canada; Casino Luxembourg - Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg (exhib. cat.)
“Variations Xanadu”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan (exhib. cat.)
2005
Chang, Chris. "The Hills Are Alive" FilmComment, The Film Society of Lincoln Center (ed.), March/April 2005, vol. 41/no. 2, p. 16
McKinnon, John. "Su-mei Tse, The Ich-Manifestation," The Student News Publication at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Summer 2005.
“Art Unlimited”, Art 36 Basel, 2005
Van den Bergh, Jos, “Su-Mei Tse, Tim Van Laere Gallery,” Artforum, February 2005, p. 185
“Irreducible”, Contemporary Short Form Video 1995-2005, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Fransisco, 2005 (exhib. cat.)
Morton, Julia. "Su-Mei-Tse: Recent Works," New York Press, January 12-18, 2005.
"Su-Mei Tse," New York Magazine, January 3, 2005.
"Su-Mei Tse," The New Yorker, January 3, 2005.
2004
“Territorio libre”, 26th São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo (exhib. cat.)
Niru Ratnam, i-D magazine, The Studio issue, n° 2, March 2004, p. 200
“Aural Cultures”, Jim Drobnick (ed.), Toronto and Banff: YYZ Books and Walter Phillips Gallery Editions, 2004
Beaud, Marie-Claude, “Jetzt=Jetzt, Su-Mei Tse,” art press, no. 306, November 2004, p. 38
“InVisible Silence”, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, 2004 (exhib. cat.)
“Passport, ” Bunker Museum of Contemporary Art - 8 Solo Exhibitions, Kinmen, Taiwan, 2004, (exhib. Cat)
2003
“Dreams and conflicts. The dictatorship of the viewer”, 50th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennial, Marsilio (ed.), Florence, 2003 (exhib. cat.)
Miles, Christopher. "Art, pure and simple," Los Angeles Times, July 2003.
“Su-Mei Tse « air conditioned » ”, published on the occasion of the 50th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennial (Luxembourg pavilion), Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (ed.), Luxembourg, 2003
“Réalités_Collections sans frontières II”, Galerie Zacheta, Warsaw, 2003 (exhib. cat.)
“It’s oh so quiet,” i-D Magazine, The Studio Issue, n° 241, September 2003, p. 200
“Su-Mei Tse, Luxemburg: Wo bin ich?,” du, no. 735, April 2003, p. 30
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Coppel Collection, Mexico
Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
FRAC - Lorraine, Metz, France
Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
Musée d’Histoire de la Ville de Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Museet for Samtidskunst, Museum for Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
UBS Art Collection, UBS (Luxembourg) S.A., Luxembourg
YAGEO Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
Yeh Rong Jai Culture & Art Foundation, Taiwan
SELECTED GRANTS, AWARDS, & COMMISSIONS
2014 - 2015
Artist Residency, Académie de France à Rome, Villa Médicis, Rome, Italy
2009
International Contemporary Art Award, Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco Prize
for Contemporary Art, Monaco
2008
Artist Residency and Project, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, USA
Artist Residency, MIT, Cambridge, USA
2007
Artist Residency, The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
Artist residency and lecture, Acadia Summer Art Program, Bar Harbor, USA
2006
SR-Medienkunstpreis, Saarlandischer Rundfunk, Saarbrucken, Germany
International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, USA
2005
Edward Steichen Award, Luxembourg (scholarship and artist residency in New York in 2006)
2003
Golden Lion for best national participation, 50th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
2001
Prix d’Art Robert Schuman - Interrégional SaarLorLux Award
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