All my recent work are provisional answers to this question:
“What does a sculptural practice look like when it is sustainable for our ecosystem, finance, and mental health?”
Operating on materials (with its extraction and production), fabrication, transport and real estate (storage), sculpture is particularly positioned to examine various injustice inherently in the art infrastructure today. Stakeholders is a model that highlights the uneven stakes we hold in the midst of our fragile democracy and climate.
Shirley Tse is a recipient of the 2024 Anonymous Was A Woman Award
2023 Sculpture Magazine’s Outstanding Educator Award
Represented Hong Kong in the 58th Venice Biennale
2012 recipient of the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists
2009 Guggenheim Fellow
2009 recipient of a City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship
Represented by:
Shoshana Wayne
Shirley Tse is a faculty member in the School of Art at CalArts.
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