Light Hu

Using lines to express the force of life, the works convey a tension that feels organic, alive, and perceptible. The viewer is not merely looking, but sensing a flow—a rhythm in motion.

Medium	Mixed Media
Location	Taiwan
Date of birth	1986

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Tsai-Shin Hu is a contemporary Taiwanese artist whose work frequently takes line as a central visual language. These lines are not calm or rigid; instead, they possess a dynamic quality—like interwoven nerves and pathways. They seem to flow, breathe, and vibrate, carrying an animated vitality. At the same time, they resemble the subconscious, memory, and emotion as they surface onto the canvas. Her practice revolves around profound dialogues between existence and perception, time and memory, where rhythm and traces can be distinctly felt within the imagery.

Artistic Statement

The landscapes of my creation are poetic. Perception and thought draw out pathways, while lines articulate a subtle, pulsating awareness. Life is the core of this universe, radiating outward through perception and encircling the body (vessel), the mind (spirit), and nature—forming a world that unfolds around life as its central force.

The white lines within the paintings grow like creeping plants, while also extending like expanding thoughts. Through repeated acts of squeezing paint, releasing and condensing it into lines with physical volume, the line bears weight as it moves forward, leaving behind traces of motion. This process resembles spinning silk: intention guides the body and muscles, while sensory nerves continuously transmit signals. The body moves back and forth, sways, and oscillates—like the echo of a pendulum—where inertia and non-inertia, the subconscious and consciousness, alternate and exchange dominance. Heartbeat, breath, and awareness resonate together, massaging and releasing within the waves of this current.

Lines serve as guides of flow. Unlike drawn brushstrokes, these lines possess three-dimensionality. In viewing them, a sense of tactile perception emerges—not through physical contact, but through a visual sensation of touch. As volume and structure take form, perception is activated by sight alone. This leads us to question how perception itself can be both real and magical. Thus, these white lines—light yet weighted—become a means to articulate the correspondence between the real and the unreal.

This landscape may appear external, yet it is in fact internal.
It is toward this that I move, and from this that I am born.

Curriculum vitae

Education

MFA, Department of Fine Arts, National Tainan University, Taiwan

Awards

2022 Selected Artist, Yilan Award
2020 Selected Artist, National Art Exhibition, Taiwan
2013 Selected Artist, Taiwan New Art Award

Solo Exhibitions

2026 River of Growth – Hu Tsai-Hsin Solo Exhibition, Cheng Shiu University of Technology, Kaohsiung
2024 Wish – Hu Tsai-Hsin Solo Exhibition, Mi Ma Yang Art Space, Tainan
2020 Land of Mirrored Dreams – Hu Tsai-Hsin Solo Exhibition, Da-Shin Art Museum, Tainan
2019 Paths – Hu Tsai-Hsin Solo Exhibition, White Memory Art Space, Kaohsiung
2019 Time Sings – Hu Tsai-Hsin Solo Exhibition, Baojia Tanmei Gallery, Taipei
2019 Time – Hu Tsai-Hsin Solo Exhibition, Eagle Art Center, Kaohsiung
2018 Bright Moon Bay – Artist-in-Residence Final Exhibition, Da-Shin Art Museum, Guangzhou
2018 Unending – Hu Tsai-Hsin Solo Exhibition, Royal Bookstore Living Art Space, Kaohsiung
2017 The Stargazer – Hu Tsai-Hsin Solo Exhibition, Art Star Art Center, Taipei

Group Exhibitions

2025 Between Form and Color, Blue Tile Space, Taoyuan
2024 The Reality and Illusion of Rhythmic Thought, Kaohsiung International Airport, Kaohsiung
2023 Layered Geometric Realities, Zhenpin Art Center, Taichung
2021 Folds of Time and Space, White Memory Art Space, Kaohsiung
2020 Microscopic Worlds, 99 Degree Art Center, Taipei
2020 Kaohsiung Art Fair, City Suites – True Love Hall, Kaohsiung
2019 Gradients: 15 Facets of Contemporary Art, Jianshan Qianyang, Kaohsiung
2019 Eagle Opening Group Exhibition, Hsiung Kang Xinyi Art Museum, Kaohsiung
2019 Shanghai Urban Art Fair, The Luxury Collection Hotel, Shanghai
2019 Crossing Boundaries: Young Artists Group Exhibition, Shenzhen Bao’an International Airport, Shenzhen
2018 Blooming Taiwan: Contemporary Art from Taiwan, Taipei Representative Office in Singapore × Art Bank, Singapore
2018 Hsinchu Art Fair, Fleur Lis Hotel, Hsinchu
2018 Tainan Art Fair, Tayih Landis Hotel, Tainan
2018 First Hues, isart Gallery, Taichung
2018 Kaohsiung Art Fair, City Suites – True Love Hall, Kaohsiung
2018 Midsummer in Full Bloom, New Art Art Center, Taichung
2017 Inheriting Intentions, New Art Art Center, Taichung
2017 Taichung Art Fair, Millennium Hotel, Taichung
2017 Taipei Dangdai Art Fair, Sheraton Grand Taipei Hotel, Taipei
2016 Wrinkles Once Smiled – Soka Young Artists Exhibition, Soka Art Center, Tainan
2016 Tainan Art Fair, Tayih Landis Hotel, Tainan
2016 Taipei Dangdai Art Fair, Sheraton Grand Taipei Hotel, Taipei
2016 Taichung Art Fair, Millennium Hotel, Taichung