Hus Chun-Yu

Biography

Hsu Chun-Yu uses copper and iron wires, which she burns, hammers, and bends by hand, to record people and phenomena overlooked by a busy society, and in the process of transforming the image into a three-dimensional figure sculpture, she realizes other people's life experiences. Hsu takes various “char-acters” in the society as the main theme of work, and uses lines to organize the relationship between self and others, thus gradually shifting her focus from the self to gazing at the surroundings. In order to find more different lifestyles and social scenes, she takes a forward step to record people's stories actively.

As the metal wires are connected, they are curved, intertwined, and overlapped into the layer after layer of the figure's shape and wrinkles. Under the lines and blank space, the figure's features are gradually revealed. As the light shines on the sculpture, the flowing lines interact with the dark shadows projected on the blank wooden boards, and the openwork's silhouette complements the light and shadow. The overlap of dark wire lines and grey shadows creates a rich visual depth, and also adds emotions to it, presenting a variety of emotions and atmospheres as the audience moves around. The artist uses the space and structure of the sculpture, which are transparent and open forms of expression, leading the audiences to the line movement and immersing them in the scenario and rhythm of each individual fig-ure, and gazing and perceiving these real and important “people” who are used to in our lives in society.

Hsu Chun-Yu, born in Hsinchu, Taiwan, 1996, graduated from Jewelry and Metal Arts, the Graduate Insti-tute of Applied Arts, Tainan National University of the Arts, and currently lives and works in Tainan. The artist uses the metal wire to sculpt the people in everyday life, and she has won many awards, including the Golden Award of the Sculpture of National Art Exhibition R.O.C., 2024; the Honorable Mention Award of the 3D Arts Creation of Yilan Arts Awards, 2024; the Selected for the 3D Arts Creation of 2024 Miaoli Biennial Fine Arts Exhibition, 2024; the Prize for Excellence of the sixth Lih Pao international Sculpture Biennial Awards, 2023; the Selected for the Sculpture of Young Artist Award, 2022; the Tainan Awards and the First Prize for the Sculpture of Tainan Fine Arts Exhibition, 2021; the Bronze Award of the Sculpture of National Art Exhibition R.O.C., 2021. In the following her selected solo exhibition, including Postures of Presence: Everyday in Lines, Lin & Lin Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan, 2025; Aspects of the Human Shape, South Gallery of Tainan National University of the Arts, Tainan, Taiwan, 2022. And the selected group exhibi-tions she participated are ARCHIVE, OR FOUND OBJECTS: Paint House Ex-situ Preservation Project, Tai-wan Contemporary Culture Lab, Taipei, Taiwan, 2025; Phùn-tsuí, tshiū-nâ, Tsu-lô-san ê suann-kha, Chiayi Art Museum, Chiayi, Taiwan, 2024; National Art Exhibition R.O.C., National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, 2024; Enjoy Your Meal, Neiwei Arts Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan, 2024; Living the Days, Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Nantou , Taiwan, 2023; Day by Day, Xinying Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan, 2023; Mixed Virtuality and Reality, Tainan Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan, 2022; Tainan Fine Arts Exhibi-tion, Tainan Cultural Center, Tainan, Taiwan, 2021; National Art Exhibition R.O.C., National Taiwan Mu-seum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan, 2021; Hung Si Art Exhibition, Changhua County Art Museum, Changhua, Taiwan, 2021; Da Dun Fine Arts Exhibition of Taichung City, Dadun Cultural Center, Taichung, Taiwan, 2020. Her work is in collections of museums and institutions such as Yu-Hsiu Museum of Art, Tai-nan Cultural Center and so on.