Born in 1935 in Shanghai, Hsiao Chin is part of the second generation of Chinese diaspora painters. He moved to Taiwan in 1949, and in 1955 graduated from the Fine Arts Department of the National Taiwan Normal University, having studied drawing under Chu Teh-Chun. In 1956, Hsiao co-founded the Ton-Fan art movement, which in contrast to the Fifth Moon Group, sought to situate itself as part of other international modern art movements. He went on to organise over thirty overseas exhibitions for the Ton-Fan group, bringing a new era of Taiwan art to the world stage. He later founded the Punto movement. In the same year 1956, the Spanish Government awarded Hsiao an art scholarship to be completed in Barcelona. In 1959, he settled in Milan and continued to live in Italy for over forty years while travelling to Paris, London, New York and Asia. In 1996, he returned to Taipei as a Professor of Painting at the Tainan National University of the Arts. In 2005, he retired and was awarded the title of Knight and “Star of Solidarity” by the Italian president. Hsiao passed away in Kaohsiung in Taiwan at the age of 88.
Alisan Fine Arts has included Hsiao in several important group shows and organised two solo exhibitions for the artist in 1987 and 1993. Hsiao has held numerous solo shows and has been included in group exhibitions throughout Europe, the United States, Hong Kong, and Taiwan. He has also personally organised several travelling exhibitions of Chinese art in Europe, and of European contemporary art in Taiwan. Several retrospective exhibitions have been held in honour of the artist, including at Studio Marconi, Milan in 1988, the National Taiwan Museum of Fines Arts in 1992, Shanghai Art Museum and Guangdong Art Museum in 2004, National Art Museum of China, Beijing in 2006, and the Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts in 2010. In 2000 he exhibited at the 7th Venice Biennale of Architecture. His works have been collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome; Museo de Arte Moderno, Barcelona; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany; Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne; Taipei National Fine Arts Museum; National Museum of History, Taipei; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts; National Art Museum of China, Beijing; Shanghai Art Museum.
2023 Passed away in Taiwan at the age of 88
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBTIONS
2023
To Infinity and Beyond: The Art of Hsiao Chin, MGM, Macau
2021
2020
Prine Exhibition: Hsiao Chin, Lotus Art Gallery, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2015
Art Basel Hong Kong, Alisan Fine Arts, Hong Kong Convention & Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
Fifth Moon and Ton-Fan: The Birth of Modernist Art Movement in Taiwan, National Taiwan Arts Education Centre, National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan
Chengdu Biennale: Time Gravity, Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, China
Ink in Motion: A History of Chinese Painting in the 20th Century, Cernuschi Museum, Paris, France
Ink Dreams: Selections from the Fondation INK Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Shanghai Waves Historical Archives and Works of Shanghai Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
New York Public Library, New York, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, USA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Fogg Art Museum, Boston, USA
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, UK
Museo de Arte Moderno, Barcelona, Spain
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Barcelona, Spain
National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Taipei National Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
National Museum of History, Taipei, Taiwan
National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
