Brook Hsu (b.1987) lives and works in New York and Wyoming. Hsu’s practice pushes painting as an ongoing engagement with the medium’s capacity to cast an aesthetically propulsive and emotionally charged orbit, intertwining personal narratives of human and non-human relationships, while connecting the act and the history of painting in dialogue with literature, cinema, and music. Hsu’s paintings are trans-temporal acts, which through repeated gestures and subjects, variations and echoes, appear as palimpsests and time frames. They evoke filmic time, especially stasis and slow temporality as narrative and conceptual devices as employed by Yasujirō Ozu and Tsai Ming-liang. She is interested in how the retelling of stories, the transmutative act of repetition, and by extension the relooking of paintings across time, could hold the viewer’s attention, while shifting meaning, both reinforcing and diverging from a narrative at once.

Brook Hsu received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2010 and her MFA from Yale University in 2016. Recent solo exhibitions include: Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2026); Gladstone, New York (2024); Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong (2022); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2021); Manual Arts, Los Angeles (2021); Bortolami Gallery, New York (2019). Hsu has presented in group exhibitions at Bortolami Gallery, Dubois (2025); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Munich (2025); Grimm, Amsterdam (2024); David Zwirner, New York (2024); Heidi Gallery, Berlin (2024); Contemporary Fine Arts, Basel (2024); TAO ART, Taipei (2024); Oriole, Hamburg (2024); Et al. Gallery, San Francisco (2024); Gems, New York (2024); 14th Shanghai Biennale (2023); K11 Shanghai (2023); Zürich Biennial, Kunsthalle Zürich (2023); Paul Soto, Los Angeles (2023); Adler Beatty, New York (2022);  Derosia Gallery, New York (2022); Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles (2022); kaufmann repetto, New York and Milan (2021); TANK, Shanghai (2020); CLEARING, New York (2020); Jan Kaps, Cologne (2020); Insect Gallery, Los Angeles (2019-2020); Château Shatto, Los Angeles (2019); in lieu, Los Angeles (2019); and The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2018-2019). Hsu curated the group show “From Being Jealous of a Dog’s Vein” at Kiang Malingue, New York (2025). Hsu’s work is part of the collections of Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris; Boros Collection, Berlin; Philara Collection, Dusseldorf; Yan Du Collection, London; X Museum, Beijing; Long Museum, Shanghai; Booth School of Business, University of Chicago, Chicago; Live Forever Foundation, Taichung.