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

 

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

Zheng Jixuan, Qimu, the Stone on the West Side and Others, SeP, Shanghai, China

Grotto Heavens, Curiosa, Pairs Photo, Grand Palais Ephémère,Paris, France

 

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 

 

2024

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 Project, Chambers Fine Art, Phillips, New York, NY

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

Odes, 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

Odes, Editing the Spectacle: the Individual and Working Methods Post- Mediatization, Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

Odes, Chinese Photography: Twentieth Century and Beyond, Three Shadows Photography Art Centre, Beijing

Odes, Grain to Pixel: A Story of Photography in China, Shanghai Center of Photography, Shanghai

Odes, 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

Odes, The Persistence of Images - Chinese Contemporary Photographic Exhibition, Redtory Factory, Guangzhou

 

2014

Odes, The Art of the Chinese Album, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Awe, China Landscape - 3rd Round, Fei Gallery, Guangzhou, China

Odes, Shanghai International Photography Festival, Shanghai

Odes, The 10th Lianzhou International Photography Festival, Lianzhou, China

Odes, 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

Odes, 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

Odes, The 19th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

 

2013

Odes, The 8th International Ink Painting Biennial of Shenzhen, Guan Shanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen

Odes, First Beijing Photo Biennial , World Art Museum, Beijing

Trifles , Tokyo Photo 2013, Aura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

DUCHAMP and/or/in CHINA , Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing

Trifles , Multi-Dimensional View III , Chengdu Contemporary Photography Exhibition, Chengdu, China

 

2012

Trifles , Thousand Flowers , Aura Gallery, Beijing

Odes , “CAFAM · Future” Exhibition , CAFA Art Museum, Beijing

Origins , Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY

 

2011

Odes , 2011 AroundSpace Group Show , Around Space Gallery, Shanghai, China

Odes , Top 20 Contemporary Young Photography Exhibition , Zhejiang Art Museum, Hangzhou, China

Odes , On The Road , DaLi International Photography Festival, Dali, China

Odes , Summer , Chambers Fine Art, Beijing

Odes , The Silent Dialog , Babu Spaces, Beijing

Odes , Three Shadows Photography Award Exhibition , Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing

Odes , Multi-Dimensional View II , Chengdu Contemporary Photography Exhibition, Chengdu, China

Odes , Hey, Hot Shot! , Jen Bekman Gallery, New York, NY

 

2010

Odes , Lianzhou International Photography Festival, Lianzhou, China

Odes , DaLi International Photography Festival, Dali, China

Odes , 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

 

 

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 

 

Steles, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, 2015

 

Hive Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2015

 

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2014

 

The 19th Biennale of Sydney, Australia, 2014

 

Odes, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing, 2011

Odes, Three Shadows Photography Art Center, Beijing, 2011