Su-Mei Tse
Words and Memories
Biography
Born 1973 Luxembourg
Lives and works in Luxembourg and Berlin
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
Su-Mei Tse, AD Gallery, Athens, Greece
Implicit Sound ESPAI 13/ FUNDACIÓ MIRÓ, Barcelona, Spain
Su-Mei Tse, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
2010
Stille Disco Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2009
Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco: Prize for Contemporary Art, Monaco
Su-Mei Tse, Galerie Serge Le Borgne, Paris, France
Words and Memories, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, USA
Su-Mei Tse: Floating Memories, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
Su-Mei Tse, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
2008
East Wind, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
'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, USA
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, USA
The ICH Manifestation, Noctour by Contour Video Festival, Mechelen, Belgium
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
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
2012
4 Films, Peter Blum Chelsea, New York, NY
Passing Time, Richard E. Peeler Art Center, De Pauw University, Greencastle IN
Passing Time, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
2011
Silent Echo (Collection I), 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, USA
2010
Signs of Life, Kunstmuseum Luzern Museum of Art, Lucerne, Switzerland curated by Peter Fischer und Brigitt Bürgi
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 & Yves Netzhammer
Lebenszeichen, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland, curated by Peter Fischer & Brigitt Bürgi
BRAVE NEW WORLD, from the perspective of MUDAM Collection, Mudam, Luxembourg
CUE: Artists’ Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (group)
2009
Time Square, beaumontpublic, Diderich, Luxembourg, December 18, 2008 - February 21, 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
Images in the night, for the 10th Anniversay of the Le Fresnoy Studio, Grand
Palais, Paris.
Far and Near: Nature in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Contemporary Art Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA
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
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, Mexio
CNAP - Centre National d’Art Contemporain
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
FRAC - Lorraine, Metz, France
MART - Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Schweden
MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
MHVL - 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, USA
NMNM - Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
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
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

