Biography
Taca Sui
1984 - Born in Qingdao, China
2003 - Studied at China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing
2007 - Studied at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester
Currently resides New York and Qingdao
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025
Taca Sui: the Traveler, AroundSpace Gallery, Shanghai
2024
Look at the Luo, As a Mountain, As a Rivier, New Chapter New Direction,Luoyang, China
2023
Land of Solitude: New Works by Taca Sui, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
Mountains and Rivers , AroundSpace Gallery, Shanghai, China
Up North: Meandering in the Odes, Dananpo Art Centre, Jiaozuo, China
2022
Paris Photo: Curiosa, Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris, France
Zheng Jixuan, Qimu, the Stone on the West Side and Others, SeP, Shanghai, China
2021
Hong Lei and Taca Sui: Artfarm Summer Exhibition, Artfarm, NY
2019
Entering a New Realm, Mugetang Art Space, Chengdu, China
Grotto Heavens, Chambers Fine Art, New York
2018
Grotto Heavens, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
2016
Steles, Chambers Fine Art, New York
2015
Steles, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
2013
Odes, The Salt Yard, Hong Kong
Odes, Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY
Odes, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Recovering Time - The 2nd Annual Exhibition of Chinese Contemporary Photography and Video Arts, Doland Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai
A Voyage to Datong in the Golden Age, Yungang Art Center, Datong, China
Stone, Orange Caves, Taizhou, China
Photographic Geomancy: Image, Fieldwork, and the Poetics of Geography, Fotografiska Shanghai, Shanghai
Reconstructing Light and Shadow: Recreating Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Photography, A4 Art Museum, Chengdu, China
The Place We Live, The People We Love, iE Space, Shanghai
Moments and Memories, AroundSpace Gallery, Shanghai, China
2024
Ministry of Rites Archive, Hair、Beard、Claws, Honin Art Center, Chengdu
Sailing Home, Zhoushan Art Museum, Ningbo
Photographic Geomancy: Image, Fieldwork, and the Poetics of Geography, Guangdong Times Museum
Reconstructing Light and Shadow: Recreating Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Photography, Xie Zilong Photography Museum, Changsha, China
Go With the Flow, Fotografiska Shanghai, Shanghai
History, Everyday Life, and Imagination - Chinese Contemporary Photography, Saddleback Art Gallery, Saddleback College, CA
Take from one's bosom, Hart Gallery, Hangzhou, China
Clouds disperse yet the Moon reminds so bright, Pan-View Gallery, Zhengzhou, China
Mountain Trail of Infinite Longing, Dunhuang World Exhibition & Convention Center, Dunhuang, China
Echoes of Camel Bells:Arts, Civilizations along the Silk Roads, Beijing Minsheng Art Museum, Beijing
Unfinished—Chinese Contemporary Photography, The 2nd Chengdu International Photo Festival, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu
2023
Image Research and Re-creation of Chinese Silk Culture, China National Silk Museum, Hangzhou, China
Imprints on Paper: the History and Present of Hand-made Photo Books, Yingyi Art Centre, Beijing, China
Domain · Plot · Field, Times Art Museum, Beijing
West Lake · Xiang Lake, Gaofan Photography Museum, Hangzhou, China
Sere, Strong Wind Sweeps Over Ten Thousand Miles, Gallery of Calligraphy and Painting Channel, Beijing, China
Steles, Lishui Photography Festival 20 Years Retrospective Exhibition, Lishui, China
Grotto Heavens, The 10th Dali International Photography Festival, Dali, China
Up North: Meandering in the Odes, Båt Odes to the Land, Zhengzhou, China
Bordercrossing: Possibilities and Interactions, Yuz Museum, Shanghai, China
Hangzhou · International Artisan Photobooks Biennale, Hangzhou, China
Reconstructing Light and Shadow: Recreating Tradition in Contemporary Chinese Photography, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Art, Guangzhou, China
Flows of Inspiration—the Image Evolution of Landscape and Its Contemporary Turn, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
New Landscape: Picturesque and Dynamic Zhejiang, Gongwang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
The Eye of Memory, AroundSpace Gallery, Shanghai, China
Night is the Shadow of the Earth, Wind H Art Center, Beijing, China
Room with a view, 5th Lanzhou International Photography Festival, Yaner Bay Art Museum, Lanzhou, China
The Rabbit Projects, Chambers Fine Art, New York, USA
2022
The Infinite Conversation, 2022 Beijing Biennial, National Base for International Cultural Trade, Beijing, China
Wandering · Through · Nature, 3rd Art Scene of West Lake Photo Exhibition, Gongwang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
The Color of Life, AroundSpace Gallery, Shanghai, China
2021
The Past Is a Foreign Country, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China
TOP20·2021 Chinese Contemporary Photography Exhibition, Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
The Photography is Not What's Important: Photography at the Central Academy of Fine Arts, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
Ways of Seeing: The Reflection of History in Contemporary Photography, Xie Zilong Photography Museum, Changsha, China
A Contemporary Art Experiment: From Go Seigen to AlphaGo, OCT Contemporary Art Terminal, Beijing, China
Silent Embrace/ Speechless Scene, Alter Gallery, Shanghai, China
Xibei—Photography of Northwest China since 1870, Museum of Contemporary Art of Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China
Open Closed Open, Toku Gallery, Nanjing, China
Dreaming Together, New-York Historical Society Museum, New York
Spring Still Thick, , Mugetang Art Space, Chengdu, China
Union, Collaboration with Objective, Shanghai, China
2020
Infinitive, Mugetang Art Space, Chengdu, China
Flowing Waters Never Return to the Source: Photographers Gazing at the River in China, Jumièges Abbey, France
Somewhere in the Past, AroundSpace Gallery, Shanghai, China
An Impulse to turn, Inside-Out Art Museum, Beijing, China
A House with Many Guests, M Woods Museum, China
The Will of Time, Mugetang Art Space, Chengdu, China
2019
Chinese Contemporary Photobooks: Visual Narrative in Paper and Beyond, CAA Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
A Ten Year, Aranya Art Center, Qinghuangdao, China
The Intertextuality of Art and Poetry,Exhibition Halls A\B OCT Loft, Nanshan Shenzhen, China
China Landscape - 4th Round, Tianhe Art Center, Guangzhou, China
2018
40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography, OCT Loft, Nanshan Shenzhen, China
Confusing Public and Private：The 3rd Beijing Photo Biennial, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
Ten Directions: The 10th Anniversary Exhibition of Three Shadows Photography Award, Three Shadows Xiamen Photography Art Centre, Xiamen, China
On Paper II, White Space Beijing, Beijing, China
Ten Directions: The 10th Anniversary Exhibition of Three Shadows Photography Award, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing, China
Art of the Mountain: Through the Chinese Photographer's Lens, China Institute Gallery, New York
2017
40 Years of Chinese Contemporary Photography, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing
2016
Grain to Pixel: A Story of Photography in China, Monash Art Museum, Melbourne
Together, Aura Gallery, Beijing
2015
Immortal Present: Art and East Asia, Berkshire Museum, Massachusetts, USA
Editing the Spectacle: the Individual and Working Methods Post- Mediatization, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Chinese Photography: Twentieth Century and Beyond, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing
Grain to Pixel: A Story of Photography in China, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai
Echigo-Tsumari Art Field, Asian Photography and Image Center, Echigo-Tsumari, Japan
Stone, 2nd Three Shadows Experimental Image Open Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing
The Persistence of Images - Chinese Contemporary Photographic Exhibition, Redtory Factory, Guangzhou
2014
The Art of the Chinese Album, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
China Landscape - 3rd Round, Fei Gallery, Guangzhou, China
Shanghai International Photography Festival, Shanghai
The 10th Lianzhou International Photography Festival, Lianzhou, China
The 5th International Photography Biennale of Jinan, Shandong Art Museum, Jinan, China
Looking for Emperor Zhou Mu footprints, The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Contemporary Photography in China 2009-2014, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Looking for Emperor Zhou Mu footprints, The 2nd Biennale of Xinjiang, Urumqi, China
Divination about a show of divination as an exhibit itself, Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing
The 19th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
2013
The 8th International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen
First Beijing Photo Biennial , World Art Museum, Beijing
Tokyo Photo 2013, Aura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
DUCHAMP and/or/in CHINA , Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing
Multi-Dimensional View III , Chengdu Contemporary Photography Exhibition, Chengdu, China
2012
Thousand Flowers , Aura Gallery, Beijing
“CAFAM · Future” Exhibition , CAFA Art Museum, Beijing
Origins , Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY
2011
2011 AroundSpace Group Show , Around Space Gallery, Shanghai, China
Top 20 Contemporary Young Photography Exhibition , Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China
On The Road , DaLi International Photography Festival, Dali, China
Summer , Chambers Fine Art, Beijing
The Silent Dialog , Babu Spaces, Beijing
Myriad Visions: the 3rd Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition , Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing
Multi-Dimensional View II , Chengdu Contemporary Photography Exhibition, Chengdu, China
Hey, Hot Shot! , Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY
2010
The 6th Lianzhou International Photography Festival, Lianzhou, China
Dissimilarity Landscape, INTER Art Center , Beijing, China
COLLECTIONS
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
The Philadelphia Museum of Art,Philadelphia, USA
USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA
Fidelity Investments Art Collection, USA
CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China
Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China
AWARD & FELLOWSHIP
2012 - Foam Paul Huf Award, Finalist
2011 - Top 20 Chinese Contemporary Young Photographer
2010 - Lianzhou International Photography Festival, Photographer of the Year Award
2010 - Hey Hot Shot Award
LECTURE & ARTIST TALK
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, China
OfPix Foundation, Beijing, China
Photofairs Shanghai, Shanghai, China
Kurbrick Bookstore, Beijing, China