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Painting, Object |
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| USA | 19 |
| Germany | 6 |
| Australia | 2 |
| Netherlands | 2 |
Biography: 
1956 Born in Easton, Pennsylvania (US)
Gilbert Hsiao grew up in the midwestern state of Indiana and came to study art history in New York City at Columbia University. He is a self-taught practitioner of hard edged, abstract painting who names music and the psychology of perception as chief influences in the development of his work.
For nearly thirty years, Hsiao has explored the mechanics of visual perception. His paintings of the past decade are characterized by their use of intricately overlaid, exacting stripes of color. Recently, he has been experimenting with shaped panels which create an active, continuously shifting surface, with no traditional sense of top or bottom, left or right. Hsiao new paintings seem to simultaneously defy both the eye and one's sense of gravity.
Unlike much reductive, pattern-based painting, however, Hsiao approaches his practice spontaneously and makes each painting intuitively. In other words, Hsiao's paintings are not executed according to a predetermined plan, but rather are the sum of a series of improvised decisions. Similarly, the hanging of much of this work is similarly spontaneous; works are oriented according to the spaces in which they are to be displayed. Thus the same painting can be hung differently in different environments.
After 30 years in Brooklyn, NY, USA, Gilbert Hsiao (b. 1956, USA) now lives and works in Berlin, Germany. His work has been exhibited internationally, including the United States, Australia, New Zealand, The Netherlands, and Germany. He recently mounted solo exhibitions at Gallery Sonja Roesch (Houston), dr julius | ap (Berlin) and MINUS SPACE (Brooklyn). Recent group exhibitions include P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / MoMA (New York), McKenzie Fine Art (New York), IS Projects (Leiden, The Netherlands), Sydney Non Objective (Australia), and Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung (Bonn). Hsiao was awarded a Fellowship in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2008. His work is included in a number of public, corporate, and private collections worldwide.
Lives and works in Berlin (DE) and New York (US).
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 32
Solo shows 4
2012
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| Gilbert Hsiao - Minus Space, New York City, NY |
2011
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| Hsiao - Filter - Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX |
2010
2009
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| Gilbert Hsiao: Shape/Anti-Shape - Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX |
Group shows 28
2012
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| Roesler Hotel # 21 - Buzz - Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo |
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| Dripping Color Amazement - Malerei - Galerie oqbo \\ Raum für Bild Wort Ton \\ , Berlin |
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| Panorama de 31 - Minus Space, New York City, NY |
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| American Abstract Artists International: 75th Anniversary - ParisCONCRET, Paris |
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| The Suburban, Oak Park, IL - Minus Space, New York City, NY |
2011
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| 30: A Brooklyn Salon - BRIC Rotunda Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Sound and Vision - McKenzie Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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| American Abstract Artists 75th Anniversary - O.K. Harris Works of Art, New York City, NY |
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| An Exchange with Sol LeWitt - Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art - MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA |
2010
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| Beyond painting - Lausberg Contemporary, Toronto, ON |
2009
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| 1/1 ...... 1/100 - Editionen aus Deutschland, den Niederlanden und der Schweiz - Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn |
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| SNO 51 - SNO - Sydney Non Objective Group, Sydney, NSW |
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| Open House for Butterflies - Minus Space, New York City, NY |
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| KOSMOS - IS Projects, Leiden |
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| Escape from New York - RMIT Project Space / Spare Room, Carlton, VIC |
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| Linear Abstraction - McKenzie Fine Art, New York City, NY |
2008
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| gegenstandslos - Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung, Bonn |
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| Minus Space - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| International and National Projects Fall 2008 - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| The Speed of Colour - IS Projects, Leiden |
2007
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| machine learning - The Painting Center, New York City, NY |
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| machine learning - Minus Space, New York City, NY |
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| The Optical Edge - Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York City, NY |
2004
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| All the Numbers I Know - BRIC Rotunda Gallery, New York City, NY |
2003
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| Arc - Sideshow Gallery, New York City, NY |
1986
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| Selections 34 - The Drawing Center, New York City, NY |
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