Outer Banks of Memory

Tishan Hsu explores the effects of technology on the human body and the emotional resonance happening between people and the digital screen. Working with paintings, interactive media, and sculpture, Hsu challenges the viewer to question how technology affects the individual body and the collective body as a means of becoming more conscious of the cognitive and navigating the body’s response in a shifting digital landscape. Works such as QMH 3.2.1 (2019) apply these ideas to history and how forgotten and repressed history can affect the body, becoming formed by the experiences of trauma. He earned a BS in architecture and a Master’s degree in architecture from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and studied film at Harvard. He taught at Sarah Lawrence College and has work in numerous museum collections including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Centre Pompidou, and the High Museum of Art.

Boston, MA, USA