Tishan Hsu
Monday, August 3, 2026, All Day; additional 29 dates below.
“I feel that technology is an organic evolution of the human species.”
Tishan Hsu (b. 1951, Boston, MA, lives and works in New York, NY) explores evolving relationships between humans and technology across work that spans painting, sculpture, drawing, and computer-generated media. Hsu’s new mural for the Henry’s exterior façade builds from his recent series of wallpaper-based works, which blend biomorphic, industrial, and digital forms into evocative compositions that explore entangled relationships between society and screen-based culture.
Since the 1980s, Hsu has critically engaged the ways computational, medical, and industrial innovations intersect with and shape embodied experience. Hsu’s recent wallpaper works extend this ongoing investigation and reflect upon the way our lives are increasingly embedded within digital infrastructures. These works visually recall skin, matrices, and membranes and conjure the porous boundaries between the organic and the synthetic. Abstracted and contorted forms—fleshy orifices, optically wonky grids, and screen-shaped portals—elicit shifting definitions of nature and humanity. There is a felt tension between bodily pleasure and alienation, inviting reflection on the ways we must negotiate human agency in tandem with emerging digital systems.
Hsu’s mural is an interface where information and sensation intersect, a site to consider the intertwining trajectories of biology and technology within our ever-changing present and our shared future with machines.
Artist Bio
Since the mid-1980s, Tishan Hsu has been at the forefront of exploring the effects of technological transformation, rendering poetic reimaginings of the human body through innovative materials and digital processes. His approach to the intersections of organic and artificial life has made him one of the most prescient voices in contemporary art today. For nearly five decades, Hsu has investigated the evolving relationship between humans and technology. Though he gained early recognition in the 1980s with solo exhibitions in New York, he spent much of the following decades working outside the public eye, refining his ideas about digital culture, the body, and perception. Early works from this period introduced his now recognizable aesthetic—blurring the boundaries between flesh and technology through biomorphic forms, industrial surfaces, and a visual language evocative of digital systems. Hsu’s work now resonates even further in an era where physical and virtual realities are increasingly enmeshed.
Hsu’s work has been widely exhibited internationally, with recent solo presentation at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto (2024), Secession in Vienna (2023-24), and MAMCO in Geneva (2024). He has participated in major group exhibitions such as The Milk of Dreams at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022) and Is it morning for you yet? at the 58th Carnegie International (2022). His work is held in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Tate Modern, London; Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt; MAMCO Geneva, Switzerland; and M+, Hong Kong, among others.
Upcoming Dates
All Day
- Mon, Aug 3, 2026
- Tue, Aug 4, 2026
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Hours
Thu: 10 AM – 7 PM
Fri – Sun: 10 AM – 5 PM
Mon – Weds: Closed
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