HSU Che-jui · Taiwan · b. 2003

HSU Che-jui 許哲睿

A mixed-media artist working with 4×5 large-format black-and-white film and AI-generated imagery, addressing examination, identity politics, idolatry and the truth of information.

Works Exhibitions
HSU Che-jui in a Momotaro-inspired self-portrait: wearing a headband and a gold-brocade surcoat, holding a three-dumpling skewer, flanked by a pheasant, a Shiba dog and a macaque.

Works

Three ongoing projects

Interweaving film, performance and AI-generated imagery to address Taiwan’s examination system, identity politics and contemporary idolatry.

  1. When I Grow Up: a black-and-white 4×5 self-portrait at the centre — the bare-chested artist in glasses holds a tape measure in one hand to measure his own height (177.7 cm), while the other hand grips a roadside guardrail's stone post, its top trailing a length of broken wire — ringed by 177 AI-generated ID photos corresponding to the whole-number portion (deities, celebrities and anime characters from around the world), one of which is his real passport photograph with a corner cut off, representing the 0.7 cm remainder — set against dense, tangled tree branches.

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    Chaos Body Shop

    無序身體販賣所

    Mixed media · 2025– · Key work: When I Grow Up
  2. Answer, “The King of Examination”: a black-and-white portrait wearing a folded-paper hat with “100” inked on the chest.

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    Answer

    答案

    4×5 B&W film
  3. Medicine: an expressive black-and-white portrait holding prayer beads and chains.

    03

    Medicine

    心藥

    AI Tarot · Performance
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Exhibitions

Recent & signature showings

  1. 2026
  2. 2026
  3. 2026
  4. 2026

    Island Compound Eyes: Multiple Images of Taiwan, Fotofestiwal ↗

    Art_Inkubator in Fabryka Sztuki, Łódź, Poland

  5. 2026
  6. 2025

    Answer Solo Exhibition →

    Keelung Museum of Art, Taiwan

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About

About the artist

HSU Che-jui (b. 2003, Taiwan) began photography on May 20, 2022 and started making art in December 2023. Rooted in conceptual and performance practice, his media span 4×5 black-and-white film, AI-generated imagery, tarot and Bajiquan.

  • MentorsCHIANG Li-hua, YAO Jui-chung, YANG Chen-hao, CHANG Shao-chiang, HAN Chi-hsiang
  • StudyingMFA, Contemporary Visual Culture and Practice, NTUA; MITx MicroMasters® Program in Statistics and Data Science (SDS)
  • MemberNTU Photo Club; Society of Photographic Museum and Culture of Taiwan; AVAT; Taiwan Photographic Cultural Heritage Association
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