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【A Cloud, do you have a name?】—Jo Hsieh solo Exhibition｜2025/05/30-08.16
In 2019, Mezzo Art held a solo exhibition for Jo Hsieh titled Blue Roaming, featuring over twenty works from its collection. The exhibition showcased key pieces from her “Non-Space” series, as well as other prints and oil paintings in collaboration with CHINI Gallery. Now, after six years, we are pleased to once again collaborate—this time with the Jo Hsieh Arts Foundation—to present a new solo exhibition for #JoHsieh: #Clouds, #DoYouHaveAName?
We’re also honored to welcome Professor #ChenKuangYi as our opening guest speaker. Professor Chen holds a PhD in Contemporary Art History from Université Paris Nanterre (Paris X), specializing in art history and archaeology. She is widely regarded as a leading scholar in Western art history in Taiwan. In 2023, she curated Jo Hsieh’s retrospective The Philosophy of Blue at the Tainan Art Museum. That exhibition featured not only the well-known “Non-Space” series but also the rarely seen “Self-Portrait” series, offering a profound insight into the artist’s practice.
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#JoHsieh was born in 1967 in Chiayi, Taiwan. Influenced by her mother, she developed a passion for drawing from a young age and later studied at Fu-Hsin Trade and Arts School, where she focused on both art and design. After graduation, she launched her own design business, but her deep desire to pursue fine art led her to the UK in 1991. She completed her MA at the Royal College of Art in 1998 and continued living, creating, studying for her PhD, and exhibiting her work in the UK. Beginning in 2012, she held a series of solo exhibitions in Taiwan through CHINI Gallery in Taipei. However, the strain of living abroad while devoting herself fully to her art eventually impacted her health. She returned to Taiwan in 2015 for treatment and passed away in 2017.
Over just two decades, Jo Hsieh created an extraordinary body of work, leaving behind a vast archive of drawings and paintings. In 2021, her family established the Jo Hsieh Arts Foundation to preserve and catalog her artistic legacy. Having spent nearly her entire creative life in the UK and passing away at the age of fifty, she presented several memorable solo exhibitions through CHINI Gallery in Taipei. Yet there was not enough time for her to become more widely known to Taiwanese audiences. We hope that, through ongoing exhibitions, more people will come to know and appreciate this remarkable artist.
