Born in 1977 in Taipei, Taiwan, Hsi Shih-Pin received an MFA degree of Plastic Arts from Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA). He specializes in sculpture and installation of mixed media. The variety of Hsi’s works shows in the combination of variable media, colors, size, and modes. Inside of his works, the artist focuses on structures and appearances of daily objects, then transfer them into peculiar shape and space by deconstruction and recombination. Hsi tries to keep those memories that experienced by objects far from our perception with the practice of classical techniques and his imagination. Based on his life experience, the artist expects to experiment more possibilities in the future.
Hsi’s has participated in several important public projects and international artist-in-residence programs for years. His works once earned him 2012 the Asian Cultural Council Taiwan Fellowship Program, Hsi’s works has been exhibited in Beijing Art Museum, Shanghai Art Museum, South Korean Haslla Art World, San Francisco Headlands Center for the Arts, and Taipei MOCA. He also had been sponsored and invited to art projects by Tung Ho Steel Enterprise Corp, Hermès, Louis Vuitton and Ferrari in 2011. The artist currently lives and works in Taipei.