Ina Hsu

Shian-Fong Hsu, a.k.a. Ina Hsu, was born in Innsbruck in 1976 into a Taiwanese family.

She lives and works as a painter, illustrator, and educator in Kufstein and Innsbruck. She studied at the IFOG Academy of Graphic Design in Munich, graduating in 1996, and at the University of Art and Industrial Design Linz, where she studied Painting and Graphics under Ursula Hubner and graduated in 2006. She has participated in numerous projects, received scholarships and awards, and has presented her work in numerous solo and group exhibitions (selected), including Found Paradise, Galerie im Andechshof, Innsbruck; Kunst im Studio - Ina Hsu, ORF Regional Studio Tyrol, Innsbruck; … oh rainbow - Special Exhibition Young Art, ART Innsbruck; BELOVED BEAST, UNO St. Claude Gallery, New Orleans, USA; IN THE BACK OF BEYOND, Galerie Goldener Engl, Hall in Tyrol; and Voyage a contre-courant, Parallel Vienna, Vienna. In 2024, she was awarded the Award for Contemporary Art by the State of Tyrol, recognizing her artistic practice and contribution to the contemporary art scene. Shian-Fong Hsu a.k.a. Ina Hsu visualisiert imaginativeMoglichkeiten des Zusammenlebens vonTieren und Menschen. Tapire, Affen, Baren,Bienen und Menschen suchen Raum undRessourcen zum Leben. Ina Hsus Werkeerzahlen von der planetaren Verbundenheitaller Lebensformen und wie ihr Zusammen-leben anstatt in gegenseitiger Ausbeutungspielerisch, solidarisch organisiert werdenkonnte in mitunter gefahrlichen aber definitiv voneinander abhangigen Beziehungen.Anstatt zu moralisieren oder zu urteilen, istHsus kunstlerische Arbeit inspirierend undeinnehmend. Sie ist ein Aufruf, uns kunftig umsichtiger zu verhalten angesichts der Verquickung allen Lebens auf Erden und der wechselseitigen Abhangigkeit der Spezies.