Biography
Lives and works in Luxembourg and Berlin
Grants and Awards
2014/15
Artist Residency, Villa Medicis, French Academy in Rome, Italy
2009
Prix International d'Art Contemporain, Fondation Prince Pierre, Monaco
2008
Short residency at MIT List Visual Arts Center and MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, USA
2007
Artist in residence, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, USA
Residency and Lecture, Acadia Summer Art Program, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
2006
SR-Medienkunstpreis, Saarländischer Rundfunk, Saarbrücken
International Studio and Curatorial Program (ISCP), New York, US
2005 Edward Steichen Award, Grant and Art Residency in NY for 2006
Residency and Lecture, Acadia Summer Art Program, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
2003
Golden Lion for the Best National Participation, 50. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2001
Prix d'art Robert Schuman, interregional prize SaarLorLux
Solo exhibitions (Selection)
2023 Upcoming
Su-Mei Tse Solo exhibition at Nosbaum Reding | Bruxelles, Belgium
2022
Su-Mei Tse - Beyond, Galerie Tschudi, Zurich
2021
Su-Mei Tse Solo exhibition at ADAA Art Fair New York, USA
Enough or alive, Galerie Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg
2020
Spotlight Art Basel Hong Kong Solo Booth at Edouard Malingue Gallery, HK
2019
Nested, Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TFAM), Taiwan
2018
Nested, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
Waterloo Billboard Commission, Hayward Gallery London, United Kingdom
Nested, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
2017
Between Eggs, Stones and Floating Balls, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Nested, Mudam, Luxembourg
A Certain Lightness, AD Gallery, Athens, Greece
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
Gewisse Rahmenbedingungen, Frieze Art Fair, Peter Blum Gallery, New York
… et à l'horizon il y avait l'orage, CAC-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
Vertigen de la Vida, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
2010
Stille Disco, Solo Exhibition, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
New Sense Of Order, Su-Mei Tse & Yves Netzhammer, Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg
2009
Words and Memories, Peter Blum Gallery Chelsea, New York, USA
VARIATIONEN, Galerie Serge Le Borgne, Paris, France
Prix International d'Art Contemporain Fondation Prince Pierre, Monaco
Floating Memories, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
Solo exhibition at Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
2008
Some Magical Clangs, Su-Mei Tse & Virginie Yassef, CRAC Alsace, France
Bird Cage, Su-Mei Tse & Jean-Lou Majerus, Public Art Project, Luxembourg
East Wind, Seattle Asian Art Museum, Seattle, USA
1000 words for snow, Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg
2007
DUOLOGUE, Lee Mingwei & Su-Mei Tse, 2 Solo Exhibitions at MOCA Taipei, Taiwan Media Test Wall : Su-Mei Tse, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, USA
Su-Mei Tse, AD Gallery, Athens, Greece
2006
Su-Mei Tse, solo show, Tim Van Laere Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Proposition de détour, Peter Blum Gallery Chelsea, New York, USA
The ICH-Manifestation, Noctour by Contour Video Festival, Mechelen, Belgium PS1 New York, New York, USA
Albion Gallery, London, United Kingdom
… …, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
2005
Su-Mei Tse: Video works, Franklin Artworks, Minneapolis, USA The ICH-Manifestation, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, USA Su-Mei Tse SOLO, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Danemark
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, AD Gallery, Athens, Greece
2003
Air conditioned, Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Biennale di Venezia (Luxembourg pavilion), Italy
2001
[E:R] conditionné, Galerie Premier Regard, Paris, France
2000
Rien à voir, projection vidéo, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil, France
Public Art
2018
Hayward/Southbank Billboard Commission, London
2008
Bird Cage, Su-Mei Tse & Jean-Lou Majerus, Projet d'Art Public, Kirchberg, Luxembourg
Group exhibitions (Selection)
2021
Inventing Nature, Pflanzen in der Kunst, Kunsthalle Karlsruhe, Germany
Tree Connections, Kulturstiftung Basel H.Geiger, Switzerland
2020/21
L'œil de Huysmans : Manet, Degas, Moreau au MAMCS, France
Online Exhibition II curated by Jenn Ellis : aoraspace.com
2019
Land of the Lustrous, curated by Han Shuang, UCCA Dune Art Museum, Aranya Gold Coast, China
Dreams, illusions, phantom flowers presented by Edouard Malingue Gallery with Elephant, London
2018
REFLECTION about / about REFLECTION, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
on longing and consolation, Art Festival Watou, Watou, Belgium
SUPERPOSITION: Art of Equilibrium and Engagement, 21st Biennale of Sidney, curated by Mami Kataoka, Sidney, Australia
Still Waters run deep, Kaoshiung Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan
2017
Listen Hear: The Art of Sound, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
If it be your will, that I speak no more, Eslite Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
What is not visible is not invisible, FRAC Collections in Asia, BACC-Bangkok Art and Culture Center, Bangkok, Thailand
What is not visible is not invisible, FRAC Collections in Asia, SongEun Art Space, Seoul, South Korea
2016
Premier Regard 15 ans / 2001-2016, Bastille Design Center, Paris, France Gigantesque! Expérience Pommery #13, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
Moony Tunes, Setouchi Triennale 2016, Honjima Island, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan
What is not visible is not invisible, FRAC Collections in Asia, National Museum of Singapore, Singapore
Not Early Not Late, Pace Gallery Beijing, Republic of China
Boom Bang III, NN, contemporary art space, Northampton, UK
People Like US, USNW, touring Exhibition 2016-2019, Australia
2015
30 Years, Artists of the Gallery, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Steichen! Making Meaning of a Legacy, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium Personal Notes for a Public Poem, curated by Sofia Eliza Bouratsis, YBDD, Berlin About Trees, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
Conversation Piece, Fondazione Memmo, Roma, Italy
Taking Time, Théatre des Expositions #6, Villa Medicis, Académie de France à Rome, Italy
2014
Days of Endless Time, Hirschorn Museum, Washington DC, USA
Visions and Beyond, The 2nd Shenzhen Independent Animation Biennale, Shenzhen, China
Mythos Wald? Historische und zeitgenössische Interpretationen zum Thema Wald und Bäume, Neu Galerie im Haus Beda, Bitburg, Germany
Bloom, Eslite Gallery 25th Anniversary Exhibition, Taipei, Taiwan
Guess What ? Hardcore Contemporary Art's Truly a World Treasure : Selected Works from YAGEO Foundation Collection, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
A corps perdu, Mouans-Sartoux, France
Les Rencontres Internationales, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Fruits de la Passion, La Collection du Centre Pompidou, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Japan
Days of Endless Time curated by Kelly Gordon, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpure Garden, Washington, USA
Les Rencontres Internationales, Gaîté Lyrique et Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
NY-LUX. Edward Steichen Award 2004-2014, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2013
Exposition des œuvres de la donation Daniel et Florence Guerlain, Musée Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
St. Moritz Art Masters, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Little Water, Dojima River Biennale, Osaka, Japan
Rhythm in it. Vom Rhythmus in der Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
The Distaff Side, Collection Melva Bucksbaum & Raymond Learsy, The Granary, Connecticut, USA
2012
10 Years in Zuoz , Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
Ateliers Luxembourg, The Venice Biennale Projects 1988-2011, MUDAM Luxembourg, Luxembourg
John Cage, KUAD Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey
A House Full of Music. Strategien in Musik und Kunst, Mathildenhöhe, Darmstadt, Germany 4 Films : Adrian Paci, Luisa Rabbia, SUPERFLEX, Su-Mei Tse, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA
Neon who's afraid of red yellow and blue?, Maison Rouge, Paris, France
2011
ANICROCHES, Variations, choral et fugue, curated by Fabienne Fulchéri, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Brick + Mortar International Video Festival, curated by Christopher Cox, MA, USA 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
Walking Through …, MUDAM Collection, MUDAM Luxembourg, Luxembourg
HELP ! exposition au profit des victimes du Séisme au Japon, Galerie Premier Regard, Paris, France
Quiet Attentions : Departure From Women, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan
Echoes, Centre Culturel Suisse Paris, France
2010
The Yvonne Rainer Project, screening program, BFI Southbank, United Kingdom
The Record, curated by Trevor Schoonmaker, Nasher Museum of Art Duke University, Durham, USA
Lebenszeichen, curated by Peter Fischer & Brigitt Buergi, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland
BRAVE NEW WORLD, From the perspective of Mudam Collection, Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg
CUE: Artists' Videos, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2009
ARTLV_09 - The Tel Aviv Bienial, Tel Aviv, Israel
Far and Near: Nature in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Tenants, AD Gallery – Remap2, Keramikos, Athens, Greece
Contemporary Art Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art, USA
Reflection: The World Through Art, Dojima River Biennale, Osaka, Japan
Tenants at ReMap2, parallel project to the 2nd Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece Invasion of Sound, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
Biennale Cuvée, World Selection of Contemporary Art, OK, Linz, Austria
2008
Images in the night, pour le 10e anniversaire Le Fresnoy, Grand Palais, Paris
Time Square, Beaumontpublic, Luxembourg
WONDER, Singapore Biennale 2008, curated by Fumio Nanjo, Singapore
L'Art en Europe, Pommery Expérience #5, Domaine Pommery, Reims, France
2007
ReMap KM, parallel project to the 1rst Athens Biennale, Athens, Greece
Kunstpreis Robert Schumann – Best Of, Trier, Germany
Lieux Communs, Instants Chavirés, Montreuil (Paris), France
Merveilleux, Château de Malbrouk, Manderen, 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
A L'Horizon de Shangri-La, FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France
SAMLING´07, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Danemark
Body as Spectacle, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka, Croatia
in midair_soundworks, Hong Kong, China
Listening Awry, Christian Marclay, Santiago Sierra, Kimsooja, Su-Mei Tse curated by Jim Drobnick, McMaster Museum of Art Ontario, Canada
2006
Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Art, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Dans les Alpes-Panorama, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
Tell me/ Raconte-moi, Casino Luxembourg - Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
Women of Europe, Saint Tropez, France Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennal 2006, Japan
2005
i-Dentity_An exhibition celebrating 25 years of i-D magazine, London, UK
Art Unlimited, Art 36 Basel, Switzerland
Tell me/ Raconte-moi, Musée national des Beaux-Arts, Québec, Canada
Variations Xanadu, MOCA, Taipei, Taiwan
Dis_appearance, Fri-Art, Kunsthalle Freiburg, Fribourg, Switzerland
AURAL CULTURES, Walter Philips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada
Radiodays, Foundation De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Nouvelles Vagues, collections du Musée National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Shanghai, Canton, Beijing, Chine
Irreducible, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
2004
18e Rencontres Parallèles, Festival, Centre d'Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie, France
26e Biennale de São Paulo, 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
Artist Talks
2018
Double Feature, Video Screening & Talk with curator Matthias Ulrich, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
Nested, Book Launch and conversation with Su-Mei Tse, Christophe Gallois and Anja Lutz, Mudam, Luxembourg
Nested, Book Launch and conversation with Su-Mei Tse, Christophe Gallois and Katrin Weilenmann, Aarau, Switzerland
Nested, Su-Mei Tse in conversation with Christophe Gallois and Katrin Weilenmann, Mudam Luxembourg
2017
Nested, Su-Mei Tse in conversation with Christophe Gallois and Katrin Weilenmann, Mudam Luxembourg
Art Basel Hong Kong : Salon, The Language(s) We Speak, Art as Communication, Su-Mei Tse, Sir Michael Craig-Martin, Abigail Reynolds and Alan Lau
2014
Lecture, ESAD, Valence, France
2009
Many Spoken Words, Embassy of Luxembourg, Tokyo, Japan
Artist Talk, in conversation with Pieranna Cavalchini, ISGM, Boston
Artist Talk, Art Tower Mito, Japan
2008
Creatively Speaking: The Artist's Point of View, Seattle Art Museum, WA, USA
Lecture and studio visits at Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA, USA
2007
Lecture and studio visits, Programme La Seine, ENSBA, Paris, France
Conversation Lee Mingwei & Su-Mei Tse, ISGM, Boston MA, USA
Lecture, Acadia Summer Art Program, Bar Harbor, Maine, USA
Public Collections
21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Coppel Collection, Mexico
CNAP – Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
ECB – European Central Bank, Frankfurt
EIB – European Investment Bank, Luxembourg
FRAC - Lorraine, Metz, France
Ministère de la Culture, Luxembourg
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
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