Angela Su’s works investigate the perception and imagery of the body, through metamorphosis, hybridity, and transformation. Her research-based projects materialize in drawing, video, hair embroidery, performative, and installation works. Central to these projects are video essays and texts where she embodies different alter-egos, weaving together fiction and facts, reality, and fantasy. Frequently reimagining and metamorphosing the female mind and body to create sites of resistance against the injustices in our social system, Su pushes the capacity of bodies to withstand violence and bear pain, to be possessed and taken over, and thus to transform and bear witness. With a focus on the history of medical science, her works question the dominant biomedical discourse whilst toying with speculative and outdated medical narratives, contemplating the impact of science and technology on the past, present, and future.
In 2024, Su had her first solo exhibition in the United States, at Wallach Art Gallery in Columbia University New York, entitled “Angela Su: Melencolia”. In 2022, Su represented Hong Kong at the 59th Venice Biennale, presenting “Angela Su: Arise, Hong Kong in Venice” co-presented by M+ and the Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Following that, in 2023, Su showcased at M+ a site-responsive exhibition of her Venice Biennale presentation, titled “Angela Su proudly presents: Lauren O—The Greatest Levitator in the Polyhedric Cosmos of Time”. In 2019, Su was commissioned by Wellcome Trust to present “Contagious Cities: Far Away, Too Close” at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong. She has also exhibited in institutions internationally, including Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (Amsterdam, 2024), Kaoshiung Museum of Art (Kaoshiung, 2024), Barbican Art Gallery (London, 2024), Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane, 2024), Southampton Arts Center (New York, 2023), A.I. (London, 2022); Levyhalli (Suomenlinna, Helsinki, 2021), Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City, 2020), The Drawing Center (New York City, 2020), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2020), Whitechapel Gallery (London, 2019), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Vienna, 2017), The 2nd CAFAM Biennale (Beijing, 2014), and the 17th Biennale of Sydney (Sydney, 2010). In 2013, she published an artist novel Berty, and, in 2017, a science fiction anthology Dark Fluid, in which she uses science fiction as a tool for social justice.
Su currently lives and works in Hong Kong.
