Hsu Wei-Hui was born in 1979 in Chungli, Taiwan. She received her BEd degree with a major in Fine Arts from the National Hsinchu University of Education in Taiwan. She went to the US in 2004 and received her MA degree in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Georgia. Later on, she received her MFA degree from the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.

Hsu Wei-Hui joined artist-in-residence programs in Seoul, Korea in 2007 and in Vermont, US in 2009. She received a Merit Award from Creative Quarterly Magazine, New York in 2008, and also received Lenore Segan Arts Awards from the Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation, New York. In 2014, her work Smiling Face as a Flower – Resplendent-6 was collected by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.

She makes full-scale installations as well as smaller mixed media pieces. Her works have been exhibited at alternative spaces, galleries, and museums in Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea, the US, Canada, Italy and the UK.

Based upon my personal experiences, my artistic practice discusses the issues related to humanity and social values from the perspective as a female artist. Through my works which mostly encourage viewers to question, to challenge, and to reexamine how the fashion culture sets up a standard for the perfect female body and the perfect facial appearance, I attempt to demonstrate the various contradictions and conflicts between an ideal life and the reality. The readymade objects from daily life are used as materials in my artworks, while each of them is given a unique symbolic meaning. Take the facial masks for example: every piece symbolizes human skin as well as the passing of time and the traces of the long-gone youth. The labor-intensive handiwork and the cumulative time help to immerse my emotion and affection in the work bit by bit. Featuring mixed-material and space-installation – in some cases combined with photography and sculpture – my artworks present the examination and the exploration toward the self-consciousness.