Su-Mei Tse
Biography
Born 1973 Luxembourg
Lives and works in New York and Luxembourg
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2009
Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan (upcoming)
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
2008
Su-Mei Tse + Virginie Yassef at CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France (upcoming)
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
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 Grants, Awards, and Commissions
2008
Artist Residency and Project, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, USA
(upcoming)
Artist Residency, MIT, Cambridge, USA (upcoming)
2007
Artist Residency, The Elizabeth Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, USA
2006
SR-Medienkunstpreis, Saarlandischer Rundfunk, Saarbrucken
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
2002
Prix d’Art Robert Schuman - Interrégional SaarLorLux Award