Born and based in Taipei, Jia-Ling Hsu is a performance and visual artist with a BA in Law and Sociology from National Taiwan University and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work, rooted in personal history, explores freedom, constraint, and human connections—through family, romance, faith, and societal roles. Blending reality, desire, dreams, and memory, her work unfolds as a composite figure that captures intimate perspectives shaped by lived experience. She weaves text, found objects, images, performative actions, and site-specific elements into fragmented, open narratives that translate indescribable emotions into sensory experiences that resonate with both personal and collective stories.

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Hsu is the recipient of “Artist in Residence Grants” from Ministry of Culture of Taiwan in cultural exchange with Hangar.org, Barcelona. Recent grants for artist residencies include Can Serrat and Piramidón, Centre d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona.

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Hsu is also an actor/performer who has participated in the projects exploring the boundary between the performer and the audience on site. Performing works include Riverbed Theatre’s “Just For You” productions for audience of one, and “Retrospective” by Xavier Le Roy in Taipei Biennial.