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{{Short description|Hong Kong-born American contemporary artist (born 1960)}}

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'''Shirley Tse''' is an American [[List of contemporary artists|contemporary artist]] born in Hong Kong (now a US citizen residing in Los Angeles). Tse's work is often installation based and incorporates [[sculpture]], [[photography]] and [[video]]. She is faculty in the School of Art at [[California Institute of the Arts]], and was the Co-Director of the Program in Art from 2011-2014. She is co-organizer of the ReMODEL Sculpture Education Now symposia series and has been visiting faculty at Yale School of Art, Northwestern University, California College of Arts and Crafts (San Francisco), and Claremont Graduate University.

'''Shirley Tse''' ({{zh|first=t|t=謝淑妮}}) (born 1968, Hong Kong) is a U.S. contemporary artist based in California.<ref name="Simpson19">Simpson, Veronica. [https://www.studiointernational.com/index.php/shirley-tse-stakeholders-hong-kong-venice-biennale-2019-video-interview "Shirley Tse: Stakeholders – Venice Biennale 2019,"] ''Studio International'', June 22, 2019. Retrieved July 3, 2024.</ref><ref name="Zellen16">Zellen, Jody. "Shirley Tse," ''Artscene'', July 2016.</ref><ref name="Tsui18">Tsui, Enid. [https://www.scmp.com/magazines/post-magazine/arts-music/article/2152917/hong-kong-picks-first-female-artist-pavilion "Hong Kong picks first female artist for solo show at Venice Biennale – it's about time,"] ''South China Morning Post'', June 29, 2018. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref> Her art is often installation-based, employing sculpture, photography and/or video that may function as stand-alone works or in relation to one another.<ref name="Johnson00">Johnson, Ken. [https://www.nytimes.com/2000/09/29/arts/art-guide.html "Shirley Tse – Murray Guy,"] ''The New York Times'', September 29, 2000, p. E32. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref><ref name="Rugoff01">Rugoff, Ralph. [https://www.artforum.com/features/ralph-rugoff-2-221730/ "Shirley Tse,"] ''Artforum'', January 2001, p.123. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref><ref name="Kraus16">Kraus, Chris. [https://www.artforum.com/columns/shirley-tse-talks-about-her-exhibition-in-los-angeles-229922/ "Shirley Tse,"] ''Artforum'', July 5, 2016. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref> She explores conceptual themes including plasticity, multiplicity and multi-dimensional thinking, balancing attention to the physical attributes of raw materials, craft, form and socio-political issues such as global mobility, social negotiation and sustainability.<ref name="Lam24">Lam, Steven. [https://sculpturemagazine.art/through-negotiation-a-conversation-with-shirley-tse/ "Through Negotiation: A Conversation with Shirley Tse,"] ''Sculpture'', January/February 2024. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref><ref name="Chen20">Chen, Cara. "Staking a Claim," ''The Standard'', July 10, 2020.</ref><ref name="Lai20">Lai, Ophelia, et al. [https://artasiapacific.com/shows/roundtable-review-shirley-tse-s-stakes-and-holders "Roundtable Review: Shirley Tse's 'Stakes and Holders',"] ''ArtAsiaPacific'', September 30, 2020. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref><ref name="Holyoak22">Holyoak, Vanessa. [https://hyperallergic.com/750683/shirley-tses-ecology-of-the-everyday/ "Shirley Tse's Ecology of the Everyday,"] ''Hyperallergic'', July 27, 2022. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref> Critic [[Doug Harvey (artist)|Doug Harvey]] wrote that Tse has "continually produc[ed] elegant and idiosyncratic artifacts that engage the audience formally, while producing a convincing mash-up of late modernist sculptural concerns and something between identity politics and autobiography."<ref name="Harvey17">Harvey, Doug. [https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-10-la-artists-work "10 L.A. Artists Whose Work You Probably Don't Know – but Should,"] ''Artsy'', October 31, 2017. Retrieved July 3, 2024.</ref>

Tse has exhibited at venues including [[MoMA PS1]],<ref name="MPS1">MoMA PS1. [https://www.moma.org/artists/73571 "Shirley Tse,"] Artists. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref> the [[New Museum]],<ref name="NM">New Museum. [https://archive.newmuseum.org/people/1943 "Shirley Tse,"] People. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref> [[M+]],<ref name="Lai20"/> [[Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston]],<ref name="Cotter02">Cotter, Holland. [https://www.nytimes.com/2002/07/12/arts/art-review-architectural-visions-keep-dreamers-awake.html "Architectural Visions Keep Dreamers Awake,"] ''The New York Times'', July 12, 2002. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref> and [[San Francisco Museum of Modern Art]].<ref name="SFMOMA">San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. [https://www.sfmoma.org/press/release/sfmoma-presents-far-reaching-exploration-of-art-i/ "SFMOMA Presents Far-reaching Exploration of Art In Technological Times,"] October 16, 2000. Retrieved July 3, 2024.</ref> In 2019, she was selected to represent Hong Kong in the [[58th Venice Biennale]], becoming the first woman to present a solo show at the event's Hong Kong pavilion.<ref name="Nwangwa18">Nwangwa, Shirley. [https://www.artnews.com/art-news/market/shirley-tse-stage-installation-hong-kong-organized-collateral-event-2019-venice-biennale-10521/ "Shirley Tse Will Rep Hong Kong at 2019 Venice Biennale,"] ''ARTnews'', June 18, 2018. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref> Her work belongs to the public collections of the [[New Museum]], M+, and [[Hong Kong Heritage Museum]], among others,<ref name="NMAC">New Museum. [https://archive.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/384 "New Additions to the Altoids Curiously Strong Collection,"] Exhibitions, 2002. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref><ref name="M+">M+. [https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/collection/makers/shirley-tse Shirley Tse], Collection.. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref><ref name="HKHM2">LCSD Museums Collection Search Portal. [https://mcms.lcsd.gov.hk/Search/search/enquire!searchRecords ''Pack, Roll, Smoke'', Shirley Tse, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, HM2010.13.1]. Retrieved July 3, 2024.</ref> and she was awarded a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] in 2009.<ref name="GUG">John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. [https://www.gf.org/fellows/shirley-tse/ Shirley Tse], Fellows. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref> She is on the faculty of the School of Art at [[California Institute of the Arts]] (CalArts).<ref name="CalA">California Institute of the Arts. [https://art.calarts.edu/programs/art/program-faculty/shirley-tse Shirley Tse], Faculty. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref>

Shirley Tse’s sculptures, installation and photographs has been included in numerous museum exhibitions worldwide, among them are The Biennale of Sydney, Bienal Ceara America, Brazil, Kaohshiung Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan, Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada, Museum of Modern Art, Bologna, Italy, San Francsico Museum of Modern Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, Kettle's Yard, UK, and Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Zealand. Tse is represented by Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles. Her work has been included in numerous articles, catalogues and publications including Sculpture Today by Phaidon (2007). She received the City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship in 2008, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship in 2009, and the California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists in 2012.

==Early life and career==

~~COMMISSION~~

Tse was born in 1968 in Hong Kong, the fourth of five children in a working-class family with a history of diasporic labor.<ref name="M+"/><ref name="Lawrence12">Lawrence, Naomi. [https://web.archive.org/web/20140915140912/http:/www.asianartnewspaper.com/article/profile-shirley-tse "Profile: Shirley Tse,"] ''Asian Art'', March 3, 2012. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref><ref name="Dailey19">Dailey, Jan. [https://www.ft.com/content/34f21518-4b0c-11e9-8b7f-d49067e0f50d "Artist Shirley Tse's models of multi-dimensional thinking,"] ''Financial Times'', March 22, 2019. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref> Her younger sister, Sara Tse Suk-ting, is a Hong Kong-based artist; in 2010 they had in a joint show, "Parallel Worlds," at [[Osage Gallery|Osage Kwun Tong]] in Hong Kong.<ref name="Teh10">Teh, Yvonne. "Parallel Worlds," ''South China Morning Post'', April 1, 2010.</ref><ref name="Lee10">Lee, Edmund. "Matter and Memory," ''TimeOut'' (Hong Kong), March/April 2010, p. 54.</ref> Tse initially planned to study philosophy but turned to art during an education abroad program in 1990–91 at [[University of California, Berkeley]].<ref name="Kraus16"/> She completed a BA in fine arts at [[Chinese University of Hong Kong]] in 1993, before moving to Southern California to attend [[Art Center College of Design]] in Pasadena, where she earned an MFA in 1996.<ref name="Lawrence12"/><ref name="Tsui18"/><ref name="Kraus16"/>

~~Fall 2002 - Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA~~

By the end of her graduate studies, Tse had identified the formal and conceptual motif that would occupy her earlier career: global circulation of cheap plastic consumer goods and packaging.<ref name="Harvey09">Harvey, Doug. "Shirley Tse," ''COLA 2009'', Los Angeles: Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, 2017, p. 66–73.</ref> In her first professional decade, she had solo exhibitions at [[Para Site|Para/Site]] (Hong Kong),<ref name="PS00">Para/Site. [http://www.para-site.art/exhibitions/plastic-works-and-prostheses-construction-works-by-shirley-tse-and-phoebe-man/ "Plastic Works and Prostheses Construction: Works by Shirley Tse and Phoebe Man,"] Exhibitions, 2000. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref> [[Murray Guy]] (New York),<ref name="Richard02">Richard, Frances. [https://www.artforum.com/events/shirley-tse-4-206541/ "Shirley Tse,"] ''Artforum'', Summer 2002. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref> Shoshana Wayne Gallery and the [[Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts]] (both California), among others.<ref name="Lawrence12"/><ref name="CCA">CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. [https://wattis-archive.cca.edu/exhibitions/capp-street-project-shirley-tse "Capp Street Project: Shirley Tse,"] Exhibitions. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref> She appeared in group shows at the [[Art Gallery of Ontario]],<ref name="AGO">Art Gallery of Ontario. [https://ago.ca/exhibitions/provisional-worlds "Provisional Worlds,"] Exhibitions. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref> [[Govett-Brewster Art Gallery]] (New Zealand),<ref name="Ayuyao20">Ayuyao, Michelle V. [https://www.tatlerasia.com/lifestyle/arts/hong-kong-artist-shirley-tse-stakes-and-holders-m-pavilion-wkcd "Artist Shirley Tse Returns Home With A New Exhibition At M+ Pavilion, West Kowloon Cultural District,"] ''Tatler Asia'', October 22, 2020. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref> [[Museo d'Arte Moderna di Bologna]],<ref name="Barilli02">Barilli, Renato. ''Art Drifts'', Bologna, Italy: Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Bologna, 2002, p. 27–41, 166–67.</ref> New Museum,<ref name="NM"/> SFMOMA,<ref name="SFMOMA"/> and [[Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts]] (Taiwan),<ref name="AAA">''Asian Art Archive''. [https://aaa.org.hk/en/collections/search/library/from-my-fingers-living-in-the-technological-age-the-first-international-womens-art-festival-in-taiwan-2003 "From My Fingers: Living in the Technological Age | The First International Women's Art Festival in Taiwan,"] 2003. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref> as well as at the 2002 [[Biennale of Sydney]].<ref name="AM">''Artmap''. [https://artmap.com/biennaleofsydney/exhibition/13th-biennale-of-sydney-2002-2002 "13th Biennale of Sydney 2002,"] Exhibition, 2002. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref>

~~ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE~~

~~Summer 2005 America Art Foundation Project, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam -~~

Later exhibitions included solos at Shoshana Wayne (2007–22), the 58th Venice Biennale and M+,<ref name="Holyoak22"/><ref name="Nwangwa18"/><ref name="Lai20"/> and surveys at [[Kettle's Yard]] (UK), [[K11 Art Foundation]] (Hong Kong) and the [[Pasadena Museum of California Art]], among others.<ref name="KY">Kettle's Yard. [https://www.kettlesyard.cam.ac.uk/whats-on/material-intelligence/ "Material Intelligence,"] 2009. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref><ref name="Heitzman17">Heitzman, Lorraine. [https://artandcakela.com/2017/04/28/interstitial-at-the-pasadena-museum-of-california-art/ "Interstitial at the Pasadena Museum of California Art,"] ''Art and Cake'', April 28, 2017. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref> Tse has been a faculty member at CalArts since 2001, and was co-director of the Program in Art from 2011–14.<ref name="CalA"/>

~~Winter 1997 The Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Alberta, Canada -~~

Summer 1995 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME▼

[[File:Shirley Tse Polymathicstyrene 2000.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.5|Shirley Tse, ''Polymathicstyrene'', Hand-carved extruded polystyrene, Installation length variable with modular 18" panels, 2000.]]

==Work and critical reception==

Tse's working method fuses idea, material and object, bringing diverse correspondences and differences in form, surface and association into play.<ref name="Dailey19"/><ref name="Dambrot07">Dambrot, Shana Nys. "Shirley Tse: 'Sink Like A Submarine' at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, ''Art Ltd'', July 2007, p. 18.</ref><ref name="Ayuyao20"/> Critics such as ''Artforum'''s Ralph Rugoff note in her work a "conceptual agility [and] formal inventiveness" that "collapses all kinds of seemingly contradictory elements": micro and macro, organic and industrial, machined and handmade, subject and object, natural and cultural, literal and metaphorical.<ref name="Rugoff01"/><ref name="Knight03">Knight, Christopher. [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2003-feb-21-et-knight21-story.html "Foam that's packed with allusions,"] ''Los Angeles Times'', February 21, 2003. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref><ref name="Tsui18"/><ref name="Nwangwa18"/> Others have sometimes connected her emphasis on accretion, contingency, handwork and sprawl to the sculptors [[Eva Hesse]] and [[Louise Bourgeois]].<ref name="Richard02"/><ref name="Wood16">Wood, Eve. [https://artillerymag.com/shirley-tse/ "Shirley Tse,"] ''Artillery'', July 2016. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref>

In her early work (roughly 1995–2006), Tse focused on synthetic plastics as a medium, using the ubiquitous, malleable material to interweave contemporary concepts ranging from urban development and 20th-century changeability and mobility to her own bicultural identity as an Asian woman living in the United States.<ref name="Zellen16"/><ref name="Lam24"/><ref name="Lawrence12"/><ref name="Harvey09"/> Her subsequent installations and exhibitions shifted to a wider range of materials and have explored the plasticity of ideas and narrative, multi-dimensional thought, social negotiation, democracy and climate.<ref name="Lam24"/><ref name="Nwangwa18"/><ref name="Tsui18"/>

===Early work, 1995–2006===

In the latter 1990s, Tse began attracting attention for sculptures exhibited in group shows that she made of plastic grocery bags, bubble-wrap, clear packing tape and molded [[polystyrene]] packaging.<ref name="Harvey00">Harvey, Doug. [https://www.laweekly.com/galleria/ "Galleria,"] ''LA Weekly'', April 5, 2000. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref><ref name="Hainley97">Hainley, Bruce. [https://www.artforum.com/events/bastards-of-modernity-211757/ "Bastards of Modernity,"] ''Artforum'', March 1997, p. 99. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref><ref name="Grabner99">Grabner, Michelle. "Stuff," ''Frieze'', September, p. 106–07.</ref><ref name="PS00"/> Her work then was divided between such objects—often hand-crafted and staged as modular accumulations—and photographic series. In the latter work, she placed vaguely geometric constructions made from inflated plastic bags and sutured solar blankets in national-park settings and photographed them.<ref name="Hainley97"/><ref name="Duncan00">Duncan, Michael. [http://www.artnet.com/magazine/reviews/duncan/duncan4-10-00.asp "L.A. Confidential,"] ''Artnet'', April 2000. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref><ref name="Rugoff01"/> Critics suggested the rumpled forms initially appeared comically out of place but gradually came to seem no less "natural" than the surrounding rocks, desert and sky.<ref name="Godfrey05">Godfrey, Mark [https://www.artforum.com/features/image-structures-photography-and-sculpture-170739/ "Image Structures,"] ''Artforum'', February 2005, p.147–53. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref><ref name="Rugoff01"/><ref name="Duncan00"/> They further noted the reversal of the relationship between surface and structure in Tse's work, with collapsible materials determining form to generate re-readings of the art-historical legacies of [[Minimalism (visual arts)|minimalism]]) or the [[Earthworks (art)|earthworks]] of [[Robert Smithson]], for example.<ref name="Kandel00">Kandel, Susan. "Shirley Tse – Plastic Aphasia," ''Artext'', February–April 2000, p. 44–45.</ref><ref name="Godfrey05"/>

Tse's first major American solo exhibitions (at the Shoshana Wayne and Murray Guy galleries in 2000) centered on the work ''Polymathicstyrene'' (1999–2000), an ice-blue, shelf-like polystyrene structure that ran, waist-high, around the perimeter of gallery spaces reaching 200 feet.<ref name="Duncan00"/><ref name="Harvey00"/><ref name="Williams01">Williams, Gregory. [https://www.frieze.com/article/shirley-tse "Shirley Tse,"] ''Frieze'', January 2001. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref> It featured abstract surfaces created by laborious power routing that Doug Harvey described as elegant reliefs recalling "architectural models, elaborate micro-circuitry or [[H. R. Giger|Giger]]esque blends of flesh and technology";<ref name="Harvey00"/> ''New York Times'' critic [[Ken Johnson (art critic)|Ken Johnson]] called it "intricately sculptured … into a series of abstract topographical designs that suggest miniature land- or cityscapes, ancient and futuristic. [The] telescoping of space, time, illusion and form is exhilarating."<ref name="Johnson00"/>

[[File:Shirley Tse Sink-Like-A-Submarine-2006.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.05|Shirley Tse, ''Sink Like a Submarine'', Cast resin, found resin (factory rejected machine mounts for submarines), brass and carved jade, 81" x 36" x 20", 2006.]]

Tse's exhibition "Polytocous" (2002) featured what ''Artforum'' called "proliferating, self-consuming nonpaintings": minimal but painterly, 48" square wall panels of cut, excised, twisted and sutured pieces of pastel poly[[ethylene-vinyl acetate]] (PEVA) that evoked surrogate skins, prosthetic devices and motherboard circuitry.<ref name="Richard02"/> With ''Shelf Life'' (2002), a platform-like structure of 20 enormous blocks of white, high-density packing foam that visitors were encouraged to climb upon, she moved to an environmental scale. ''Los Angeles Times'' critic [[Christopher Knight (art critic)|Christopher Knight]] likened its abstract, micro-macro shape to "a cross between a virus and a space station, a sperm and a sperm whale" and its carved, spare surface to hieroglyphs.<ref name="Knight03"/> In the large-scale, free-standing, plastic "Power Towers" (2004), Tse made her first moves toward overt representational imagery and direct reference to ecological issues.<ref name="Myers04">Myers, Holly. [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2004-oct-13-et-whitenoise13-story.html "Disposable society,"] ''Los Angeles Times'', October 13, 2004. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref><ref name="Kraus16"/>

===Later exhibitions and series, 2007–present===

Tse's later work is distinguished by its shifts to organic and other non-plastic materials, legible imagery and identifiable references derived from history, literature and theory, among other sources.<ref name="Dambrot07"/><ref name="Pagel09">Pagel, David. [https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cola2-2009jun02-story.html "COLA 2009 an accessible brew in Barnsdall Park,"] ''Los Angeles Times'', June 2, 2009. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref><ref name="Zellen16"/><ref name="Lai20"/> Her exhibition "Sink Like a Submarine" (2007) drew unexpected connections between forms, raw materials and processes associated with military weaponry, handicraft and the loom, the industrial revolution and information systems.<ref name="Dambrot07"/><ref name="Mizota07">Mizota, Sharon. [https://www.artforum.com/events/shirley-tse-2-183854/ "Shirley Tse,"] ''Artforum'', June 2007. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref><ref name="ASC07">''ArtsSceneCal''. "Continuing and Recommended Exhibition: Shirley Tse," June 2006.</ref> Its sculptures—described as wry, "wonderfully wacky,"<ref name="ASC07"/> and "tender and disturbing"<ref name="Harvey07">Harvey, Doug. [https://www.laweekly.com/hey-ladies/ "Hey Ladies,"] ''LA Weekly'', May 2, 2007. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref>—had indeterminate forms that evoked imagined purposes ranging from machine to shelter. The show's title assemblage bore a human heart of carved jade both cradled and caged in a small tower (made of cast replicas of recovered submarine parts) that resembled a booby-trap land mine.<ref name="Harvey07"/><ref name="Dambrot07"/>

Critic [[David Pagel]] described Tse's playful "Quantum Shirley Series" (2007–19) as "a cartoon-style fusion of physics, ethnicity and self-portraiture."<ref name="Pagel09"/> The wide-ranging sculpture-installations have employed maps, fabric, music stands, stones, text and video in explorations of multidimensional identity and experience that drew upon quantum theory, the history of colonial trade, and both personal and Chinese diasporic stories.<ref name="Teh10"/><ref name="Kraus16"/><ref name="Jahn14">Jahn, Jeff. [http://www.portlandart.net/archives/2014/07/first_thursday_85.html "First Thursday July 2014 Picks,"] ''Portland Art'', July 3, 2014. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref><ref name="Knight14">Knight, Christopher. [https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-knight-another-thing-coming-review-20140909-column.html "Object Lesson at Torrance Art Museum's 'Another Thing Coming',"] ''Los Angeles Times'', September 8, 2014. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref> For example, in ''Platform'' (2010) she crumpled and sewed a world map into a mini mountain, highlighting global connections, family migration histories and the notion of multiple, parallel selves.<ref name="Lee10"/><ref name="Chang20">Chang, Qu. [https://www.artforum.com/events/shirley-tse-5-247872/ "Shirley Tse,"] ''Artforum'', December 2020. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref>

In her exhibition inspired by [[Oscar Wilde]]'s children's tale "[[The Happy Prince and Other Tales|The Happy Prince]]" ("Lift Me Up So I Can See Better," 2016), Tse considered multiple perspectives, hope, sadness and the possibility of change through two quasi-figurative, interrelated groups of handcrafted sculpture.<ref name="Zellen16"/><ref name="Kraus16"/> She arrayed a series of small, wire-mesh, head-like sculptures with irregular, bulbous glass "eyes" like spectators on bleachers witnessing loose enactments of the story by a set of quirky, totem-like sculptures mounted to self-fashioned stands.<ref name="Zellen16"/><ref name="Harvey17"/><ref name="Wood16"/>

[[File:Shirley Tse Negotiated Differences.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.15|Shirley Tse, ''Negotiated Differences'', Hand-turned wood, 3d prints with wood, metal and plastic filament, Dimension variable, 2019. Collection of M+, HK.]]

Tse's site-responsive installation for 58th Venice Biennale, "Stakeholders" (2019)—and a significantly reworked version, "Stakes and Holders" at M+ (2020)—centered on themes of accommodation, interdependency, plurality, improvised play and contemporary life in the 21st century.<ref name="Nwangwa18"/><ref name="AR">''Art Review''. [https://artreview.com/2019-venice-questionnaire-shirley-tse-hong-kong/ "The Venice Questionnaire: Shirley Tse,"] April 5, 2019. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref><ref name="Chen20"/><ref name="Chang20"/> She produced this work using new methods (woodturning, 3D printing), media (HAM radio) and materials, creating unexpected likenesses and configurations with varied components and ordinary objects.<ref name="AR"/><ref name="Ayuyao20"/><ref name="Leung19">Leung, Winny. [https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/magazine/what-is-at-stake-a-chat-with-shirley-tse/ "What Is at Stake? A Chat with Shirley Tse,"] '' M+ Magazine'', April 26, 2019. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref> ''Negotiated Differences'' was a central work in the shows—a sprawling, creature-like, floor-to-ceiling sculpture of carved wood spindles and 3D-printed joints made of wood, metal and plastic filament that were slotted together like toy-building set pieces with joints made by 3D printing.<ref name="Simpson19"/><ref name="Chen20"/> Reviews described it as a marriage of difference, old and new, subtraction and addition, which served as a metaphor for cooperation, symbiosis and the entanglements and knots of daily life.<ref name="Ayuyao20"/><ref name="Chang20"/> ''Playcourt'' referenced Tse's childhood memories and colonial histories, exploring negotiation and reclamation through sculptures that used badminton rackets, radio antennas and "shuttlecocks" made of vanilla pods and rubber—both once colonial commodities.<ref name="Ayuyao20"/><ref name="Chang20"/><ref name="Lai20"/>

After Tse relocated to Lompoc, CA during the [[COVID-19 pandemic]], she turned more intently to the theme of sustainability, in both an ecological sense (she used no store-bought materials) and economic sense—as a conceptual choice she priced the work based on her studio rental cost, shifting the focus from commodity to the conditions necessary to make art.<ref name="Holyoak22"/> Her resulting exhibition, "Lompoc Stories" (2022), presented a video and nine sculptures made with materials gleaned from her new environs (which included a space base, oil field and prison) that meld the natural with the human-made: cat fur, snake skin, [[Diatomaceous earth|diatomite]], fiber optics, a helmet and a basement window, among other things.<ref name="Holyoak22"/><ref name="Park22">Park, Jennie E. [https://artillerymag.com/gallery-rounds-shirley-tse/ "Gallery rounds: Shirley Tse,"] ''Artillery'', September 28, 2022. Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref><ref name="Lam24"/> She continued to focus on found materials, sustainability and the concept of "[[degrowth]]" in the sculptures and video work of her show, "Portal, Virus, Arctic" (2023).<ref name="McRae23">McRae, Elizabeth. [https://24700.calarts.edu/2023/10/23/shirley-tses-exhibition-portal-virus-arctic-now-on-view-at-pasadena-city-college/ "Shirley Tse's Exhibition 'Portal, Virus, Arctic' Now on View at Pasadena City College,"] ''24700'', October 23, 2023. Retrieved July 3, 2024.</ref>

==Recognition==

Tse has received a [[Guggenheim Fellowship|John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship]] in 2009,<ref name="GUG"/> fellowships from the City of Los Angeles (COLA, 2008) and [[California Community Foundation]] (2012),<ref name="COLA17">Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles. ''COLA 20'', Los Angeles: Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, 2017.</ref><ref name="CCF12">California Community Foundation. [https://www.calfund.org/nonprofits/featured-funds/fva/2012-gallery/ 2012 Fellows – Fellowship for Visual Artists.] Retrieved July 2, 2024.</ref> a Durfee Foundation grant (2001),<ref name="DF">The Durfee Foundation. [https://durfee.org/awardee/shirley-tse/ Shirley Tse], Awardees. Retrieved July 3, 2024.</ref> and a commission from [[Capp Street Project]] in San Francisco in 2002.<ref name="CCA"/> She was awarded artist residencies at the America Art Foundation Project (Vietnam), Arctic Circle Residency (Norway), [[Banff Center for the Arts]], Linkshouse Orkney Arts ([[Pier Arts Centre]], Scotland) and [[Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture]].<ref name="GUG"/><ref name="AC22">The Arctic Circle. [https://thearcticcircle.org/participants/ "Participants,"] 2022. Retrieved July 3, 2024.</ref><ref name="PAC">The Pier Arts Center. [https://www.pierartscentre.com/events/23/5/2024/resonance-islands-hong-kong-artists-x-community-art-community-creative-workshops-amp-artists-talk "Linkshouse Orkney Arts Residency,"] 2024. Retrieved July 8, 2024.</ref> Tse's work belongs to the public collections of the [[Hong Kong Heritage Museum]], M+, New Museum, [[RISD Museum]] and [[Vancouver Art Gallery]].<ref name="HKHM">LCSD Museums Collection Search Portal. [https://mcms.lcsd.gov.hk/Search/search/enquire!searchRecords ''Bionicpak'', Shirley Tse, Hong Kong Heritage Museum, HM2010.13.2]. Retrieved July 3, 2024.</ref><ref name="HKHM2"/><ref name="M+"/><ref name="NMAC"/><ref name="RISD">RISD Museum. [https://risdmuseum.org/exhibitions-events/exhibitions/building-blocks "Building Blocks: Contemporary Works from the Collection."] Exhibitions, 2012. Retrieved July 3, 2024.</ref>

==References==

==External links==

*[https://shirleytse.com Shirley Tse] official website

* http://directory.calarts.edu/node/1855

*[https://sculpturemagazine.art/through-negotiation-a-conversation-with-shirley-tse/ Shirley Tse interview], ''Sculpture'', 2024

* http://shirleytse.net/files/Velasco.artforum.4.07.pdf

*[https://www.mplus.org.hk/en/magazine/the-work-begins-when-things-converge-shirley-tse-in-conversation-with-chris-kraus/ Shirley Tse in Conversation with Chris Kraus], ''M+ Magazine'', 2020

* http://shirleytse.net/files/Rugoff1-01.pdf

*[https://design-anthology.com/story/shirley-tse Shirley Tse interview], ''Design Anthology'', 2019

*[https://www.gf.org/fellows/shirley-tse/ Shirley Tse], John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

*[http://shoshanawayne.com/artists/shirley-tse Shirley Tse], Shoshana Wayne Gallery

*[https://www.calfund.org/nonprofits/featured-funds/fva/2012-gallery/shirley-tse/ Shirley Tse], California Community Foundation

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▲~~Summer 1995~~ [[Category:Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture~~, Skowhegan,~~ MEalumni]]