Pearl C. Hsiung
Born in Taichung, Taiwan
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Education
2004 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
2003 Postgraduate Diploma Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
1997 Bachelor Of Arts, School of Art and Architecture, University of California - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Not Yet, Chan Gallery Pomona College, Claremont, CA
2019 Fault Zone, Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Two Faces, One Die, College of the Canyons Art Gallery, Valencia, CA
2017 Full Gorge, Visitor Welcome Center, Los Angeles, CA
2015 Whiskeytown, O.N.O, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Yellowstoner, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Gusher: Pearl C Hsiung, Selected Works 2003 - 2011, Vincent Price Art Museum, East Los Angeles College, Monterey Park,CA
2010 Never Ends, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2007 Eroto Erupto Infinito, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
2006 To the Big Life, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK
2004 Overfiend, MW Projects, London, UK
Pearl C. Hsiung, Upriver Gallery, Kunming, China
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 A Brief Survey of Shapes and Colors Observed in the Los Angeles Basin, Timothy Hawkinson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Group Show; Emily Cheng, Pearl C. Hsiung, Sarah Lee, 39+ Art Space, Singapore
Painting: New Approaches, Chan Gallery, Pomona College, Claremont, CA2022
The Hearing Trumpet; Part I, Marguo, Paris, FRA
2019 Candlewood Arts Festival, Borrego Springs, CA
The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art, New Britain Museum of American Art, CN
New Suns, Páramo Gallery, Guadalajara, Mexico
2018 The Beyond: Georgia O’Keeffe and Contemporary Art, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Present Progressive, Setareh Gallery, Dússeldorf, Germany
The Beyond: Georgia O'Keeffe and Contemporary Art, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR
Glass Tamborine, Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Orange, CA
2017 Epochal Aeration: Or, The Slow Hand, Fourteen30 Contemporary, Portland, OR
2016 Second Wave: Aesthetics of the 80s in Today's Contemporary Art, UCR ARTSblock, Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside, CA
2015 Surface of Color, The Pit, Glendale, CA
Above/Below/Within, Meliksitian Briggs, Los Angeles, CA
AmazoNIGHT, 3 Days Awake, Los Angeles, CA
2014 Landscape City, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA
The Outlanders, The Pit, Glendale, CA
Tender Buttons, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2013 Landscape Into Abstraction, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (cat.)
The Archaic Revival - Rotterdam, Zic Zerp Gallery, Rotterdam, Holland
Speak! Clown, Fold Gallery, London
Love Is Not In Control, New Jerseyy Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2012 Made In L.A. 2012, Hammer Museum, Westwood, CA (cat.)
Chasm of the Supernova, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles CA
2011 The Archaic Revival, Las Cienegas Projects, Culver City, CA
2010 New Art for a New Century: Contemporary Acquisitions 2000 - 2010, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
TILT, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2009 OZ: New Offerings from the Angel City, Regional Museum of Guadalajara, Mexico
Bitch is the New Black, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Los Angeles: Aspects of an Archaic Revival, USCHI KOLB Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany
2008 Scorpius, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA (curation)
Oddball-er, Fold Gallery, London, UK
The View, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
Acclimatation, The Centre National d’art Contemporain, Villa Arson, Nice, France (cat.)
Disorderly Conduct: Art in Tumultuous Times, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Harlem Postcards: Spring 2008, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
2007 humor us, Los Angeles Municipal Arts Gallery at Barnsdall, Los Angeles.
Imaging and Imagining California Modern, Orange County Museum of Art, CA
Near Dark, Donna Beam Gallery, Las Vegas, NV, USA
2006 California Biennial 2006, Orange County Museum of Art, CA (cat.)
Busan Biennale 2006: CAFE 1, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan, South Korea (cat.)
The Golden Egg, Philspace, Santa Fe, NM (cat.)
2005 Follow Me: A Fantasy, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004 Expander, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (cat.)
New British Painting: Part II, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK (cat.)
Transmogrifications, Danielle Arnaud, London, UK
2003 The Red Mansion Art Prize, Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins College of Art, London, UK
Goldsmiths Graduates 2003, Mirko Mayer, Cologne, Germany
chockingfuckerblocked, Jeffrey Charles Gallery, London, UK
2000 The Revolutionary The Power of Women’s Laughter, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
Public Works
2023 High Prismatic, Grand Ave Arts/Bunker Hill station, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles, CA
2019 Holocene Screen, Candlewood Arts Festival, Borrego Springs, CA
2016 Phenomenal I, temporary art installation, We Are Los Angeles at Grand Park, Los Angeles, CA
Performance
2023 FAC XTRA RETREAT (FXR), Ei Arakawa, Patty Chang, Pearl C Hsiung, Amanda Ross-Ho, Anna Sew Hoy, Shirley Tse, and Amy Yao, REDCAT Roy
and Edna Disney CalArts Theater, Los Angeles, CA
2018 Future Ladies of Wrestling (F.L.O.W.), Zebulon, Los Angeles, CA
Future Ladies of Wrestling (F.L.O.W.), RuPaul’s Dragcon, Los Angeles Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Future Ladies of Wrestling (F.L.O.W.), Ace Hotel, Palm Springs, CA
2016 Future Ladies of Wrestling (F.L.O.W.), Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2014 GEYZERZ, Pearl C Hsiung with Caleb Benjamin, Kelly Coates, Kathleen Kim, Giles Miller, Coady Willis, Human Resources, Los Angeles, CA
2010 MEIGHth DAY, Pearl C Hsiung and Scott L Martin, LAXART, Los Angeles
Awards, Grants and Artist Residency
2015 CCF Fellowship for Visual Arts, Getty Fellow 2015, Mid-Career Artist
National Park Services - Artist in Residence, Santa Monica Mountains, Santa Monica, CA
2014 National Park Services - Artist in Residence, Whiskeytown National Recreation Area, Redding, CA
Pearl C. Hsiung presents Original Face, P3 Studio Residency curated by the Art Production Fund, New York, NY
2012 We Are Talking Pyramids, Public Art Residency at Heart Of Los Angeles (HOLA), Los Angeles, CA
2010 USA Projects Grant, United States Artists, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Red Mansion Art Prize and Residency in Kunming China, Red Mansion, London, UK
Selected Screenings
2021 Yellow Stoner, Magic Rectangles (online), Los Angeles, CA
2017 Fair Play, Brickell Center, Miami, FL
M.A.R.S. Festival, Art Share L.A., Los Angeles, CA
2015 Opening Night, The Situation Room, Glassel Park, CA
2012 Cinemarfa, Marfa, Texas
2011 The Big Screen Project, Medial Lounge, CAA Conference 2011, New York
Whole Halves, Human Resources, Los Angeles, USA
2006 Dreamcenter LA, Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada
2005 Sparks Video International, Spark Contemporary Art Space, New York, USA
2004 Timepop, Prince Charles Cinema, London, UK