Nung-Hsin Hu (胡農欣) is a Taiwanese-born U.S.-based interdisciplinary artist who interweaves time-based media, installation, performance, and artist’s books in her practice. Her work intends to reveal the invisible status, articulate the unconsciousness, and perform the vulnerability through a poetic and whimsical approach.
Her current projects utilize analog film as the main media, applying light-sensitive, nostalgic, and ephemeral features to address a sense of loss and collective grief in this uncertain era, as well as touching on the subjects of time, memory, and mortality. Hu also combines traditional and direct filmmaking techniques and infused language literacy with optical soundtracks to bring movement and sound components into film installations. Her newly completed artist’s book “Three Suns” is also an analog film-inspired project.
Her recent exhibitions include Incurable Nostalgia (18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles, 2020), The Hours After (Singapore Art Week, Singapore, 2021), and Future Alchemy (Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta, 2022). Hu has received various grants, including the Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, the National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan-International Exchange Grant, and the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning—Van Lier Fellowship. She has also participated in international residencies including Casa das Caldeiras in São Paulo, the Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taiwan, the Arctic Circle Residency Program in Norway, SHIFT residency at the EFA Project Space in New York, SÍM residency in Iceland, and the 18th Street Arts Center in Los Angeles.
EDUCATION
2009 Master of Fine Art: C.W. Post, Long Island University, New York
2003 Bachelor of Education in Special Education: National Hsinchu University of Education, Taiwan
WORKING EXPERIENCE
2018-19 Manager of Studio Programs: Queens Museum, New York
2013-18 Associate Coordinator of New New Yorkers and Studio Programs: Queens Museum, New York
2011-13 Associate Coordinator of New New Yorkers: Queens Museum, New York
GRANTS / FELLOWSHIPS / AWARDS
2024 Golden Butterfly Award Publishing Art in Taiwan, Taiwan
2023 Best of Golden Pin Design Award, Taiwan
2023 Ministry of Culture Taiwan: International Exchange Grant, Taiwan
2022 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant, New York
2021 18th Street Art Center- ACT Programme Fellowship, Los Angeles
2020 National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan New Work Grant.
2020 Ministry of Culture Taiwan: Overseas Residency Project Fellowship, Taiwan
2019 National Culture and Arts Foundation: International Exchange Grant, Taiwan
2019 Queens Council on the Arts New Work Grant, New York
2017 Jerome Foundation: Travel and Study Grant, Minnesota
2017 Queens Council on the Arts: New Work Grant, New York
2017 Taoyuan City Government, Cultural Affairs Bureau Visual Arts Grant, Taiwan
2013 Taiwan Ministry of Culture Art In Residency Grand, Taiwan
2010 Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning-Studio LLC, Van Lier Fellowship Award
2009 Taipei Artist Village- Boundary Break-Through Project Grand, Taiwan
2009 Nominee: Whitney Museum Independent Study Program
RESIDENCIES
2023-4 TEMPORARY FILES (a.k.a. Temp. Files) Season Three: Online residency
2021 18th Street Art Center-visiting artist: Los Angeles, California
2021 TEMPORARY FILES (a.k.a. Temp. Files) Season Two: Online residency
2020 18th Street Art Center-Ministry of Culture Taiwan Fellowship: Los Angeles, California
2019 SÍM residency: Seljavegur, Iceland
2018 SHIFT residency: EFA Project Space, New York City
2017 The Arctic Circle Residency: Svalbard, Norway
2014 Lichtenberg Studio Residency: Berlin, Germany
2013 Chashama Studio Program: Brooklyn Army Terminal, New York
2012 Treasure Hill Artist Village: Taipei, Taiwan
2010 Casa das Caldeiras Residency: Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009 I-Park Residency: East Haddam, Connecticut
2009 US/UK Iron Symposium: Salem, New York
2008 Franconia Sculpture Park Intern Artist Fellowship: Franconia, Minnesota
JURIES / PANELISTS / CONSULTANTS
2019 Panelist of Accessing Resources and Opportunities; New York Foundation for the Arts
2018 Curatorial/Promotional Committee: Flux Factory’s Annual Art Auction & Gala, New York
2018 Project Advisor: Memories of Migration- Making a Community Story Quilt, New York
2017 Panelist at Open Engagement Conference-New New Yorkers Mentoring Program: Queens Museum, New York
2017 Selection Panel: I-Park Foundation Site-Responsive Art Biennale
2016 Consultant of NYFA Mandarin Doctor’s Hours For Artists
2013 Panelist of ”The Adventures of Museums in the Land of Neighborhood Development” American Alliance of Museums conference: Baltimore, Maryland
2011 Prix Mobile Panel of Judges: Paris, France
ARTIST TALKS
2021 “Residency Under Pandemic “, NodeCreative, Taiwan
2020 “Dinner Party Conversation” 18th Street Art Center, Los Angeles
2018 Visiting artist lecture: School of Visual Art, New York
2014 Residency Bootcamp artist talk: Queens Museum, New York
2012 Open-Contemporary Art Center Artist Salon “Traffic Jam #2”, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 “AIR Taipei Artist Reception”: Treasure Hill, Taipei, Taiwan
2011 “The Other Hemisphere” artist talk: MEME Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2010 “Experimenta! Mostra de videos“ : Campinas, Brazil
2009 Art Slam: Asian American Arts Center, New York
2009 I-Park Open Studios, East Haddam, Connecticut
2009 Artists Panel: Salem Art Works, New York
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2024
“Golden Butterfly Award Publishing Art in Taiwan”: Not Just Library, Taiwan
“Golden Pin Design Exhibition- Multi-Dimensional Hyperplasia” Taiwan Design Museum Room, Taiwan
2023
”Fever Genesis”: Culture Lab Long Island City, New York
“Making Circle”: New Taipei City Art Museum, Taiwan
“UNDELETE” A Temp.Files Screening: Wendy’s Subway, New York
”By Degrees: Art and our Changing Ecology” Huntington Beach Art Center: California
”Interdependence and Co-liberation” Light Year 95: DUMBO, New York
Edinburgh Artist’s BookMarket: Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
2022
Taipei Art Book Fair: Taipei, Taiwan
”Amateur Dweller” video screening: Temp. Files Season 2
”Future Alchemy” Group Exhibition: Jakarta Biennale, Jakarta
”Root & Branch” Group Exhibition: Mission Gallery, U.K.
2021
”Root & Branch” Group Exhibition: Karin Weber Gallery, Hong Kong
“The Hours After”: Singapore Art Week, Singapore
“Nomad” Art Show: organized by Torrence Art Museum of Art, California
2020
”Incurable Nostalgia”: 18th Street Arts Center Olympic Campus, Los Angeles
“Building Networks for Empathy”: 18th Street Arts Center (Airport Campus), Los Angeles
” Common Ground Project Volume 1”: Now&After Video Festival, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Transcultures – Media & Sound Arts Center, Belgium.
” The Musical Offering”: National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts – Weiwuying, Taiwan
“Imperfection”: The Contemporary And Digital Art Fair
2019
“I am in a weird loop”: Anthology Film Archive, New York
Exquisite Corpse Video Project: O Sitio Arte e Tecnologia, Brazil
”Temporary Island” SHIFT residency exhibition: EFA Project Space, New York
“Ljós” SÍM residency exhibition: SÍM gallery, Reykjavík, Iceland
2018
Amphibian Solo exhibition: Resobox – Japanese Cultural Center in New York, New York
SHIFT Residency Open House: EFA Project Space, New York
“If Art Can Start A New Again”: National Tsing Hua University, Tian Jin Art Museum, Hebei University of Science and Technology Museum, China
2017
Blue Magpie Experimental Film Series: Film Center at NCTU, Taiwan
Videoformes Festival : Clermont-Ferrand, France
Lishui International Photography Festival “Hypermedia Era”: Zhejiang, China
Considerate Creation, Chameleons”Amphibian”: Chinese American Arts Council, New York
Considerate Creation, Chameleons”Corpus Callosum”: Taipei Cultural Center, New York
2016
Exquisite Corpse Video Project Vol.5: Contemporary Art Ruhr: Germany
ECVP Retrospective exhibition: Video de Hoje, Central Gallery, São Paulo
Exposition collective WEPORN: Galerie Levy-Delval, Brussels
Montage Express: Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong
2015
Mostra Do Filme Livre: Sao Paulo, Rio De Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, and Brasilia, Brazil
“Shangri-La” LIC Arts Open: The Factory, Queens, NY
2014
“Porn and Politics” screening: Berlin, Germany/Sophia, Bulgaria/Slovenia
Videoformes Festival: Clermont-Ferrand, France
eine Minute- ein Held: Berlin, Germany
SCOPE New York: Moynihan Station, NY
2013
Arts Immersion Salon <Yin Yang>, Beechwood Arts, NY
Chashama open studio, Brooklyn Army Terminal, NY
“Pangea” : NYFA gallery, Dumbo Arts Festival, NY
Passport to Taiwan: <Art in Motion>, Union Square, NYC
SCOPE New York : Moynihan Station, NYC
2012
Bushwick Open Studio: Brooklyn, NY
“SUSHI” : Passport to Taiwan <My Brave New World>, Union Square, NYC
“Bedtime Stories”: MGLC-International Center of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
“AIR Overlapping” Treasure Art Hill: Taipei, Taiwan
“Traffic Jam Open Studio” Treasure Hill, Taiwan
2011
“Exchange Residency Program Group Exhibition”: Treasure Art Hill, Taipei, Taiwan
“The Other Hemisphere”: MEME Space, Taipei, Taiwan
Studio LLC Program ” Year Zero” Jamaica Center for Arts&Learning, Queens, NY
2010
Matilha Cultural: Sao Paulo, Brazil
“Art Under The Bridge Festival “: Brooklyn NY
Women Artists: George Waters Gallery, NY
Site Performance Festival: Brooklyn, NY
I-Park Open Studios: East Haddam, CN
2009 Chashama Film Festival Installation: Manhattan, NY
Second Annual Governors Island Art Fair: Governors Island, NY
“AtmosFerric” Cast Iron Sculpture: Salem, NY
Bushwick Open Studio: Brooklyn, NY
2009
Indiana University Juried Art Show: Sofa Gallery Bloomington, IN
29th Annual 2009 Outdoor Sculpture Show: Port Jefferson, NY
MFA Thesis Show: Hillwood Museum, Brookville, NY
Alpan Gallery Group Show: Alpan Gallery, Huntington, NY
Southern Illinois University Spring Show: SIUC/ L.I.U.
“The Sketchbook Project” Traveling Show: 3rd Ward Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C. Antena Gallery, L.I.
2008
11th Annual “Postcards From the Edge” exhibition, benefiting Visual AIDS:
Metro Pictures Gallery, NY
“Art Under The Bridge Festival “: Brooklyn NY
“Franconia Sculpture Park Fall Festival”: Crotx Trail, MN
“Cast Iron Sculpture”: Salem Art Works, NY
“12 Years of Casting Sculpture”: Stillwater Public Library, MN
“Amalgamation”: World Culture Open, NY
“Recycled Art”: Canvas Gallery, Huntington NY
Long Island University MFA Group Exhibition: Bay Shore, NY