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the history of medical science, her works question the dominant biomedical discourse whilst toying with speculative and outdated medical narratives, contemplating the impact of science and technology on the past, present, and future.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 USA, at Wallach Art Gallery in Columbia University New York. In 2022, Su represented Hong Kong at the 59th Venice Biennale, 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. In 2019, Su was commissioned by Wellcome Trust to present a project at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong. Su has also exhibited in biennales and institutions internationally, including Busan Museum of Art (Busan, 2026), ArtScience Museum (Singapore, 2026), New Museum (New York, 2026), Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts in Harvard University (Cambridge, 2026), 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (Seoul, 2025), Stedelijk Museum (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), Levyhalli (Helsinki, 2021), Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City, 2020), The Drawing Center (New York, 2020), Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2020), Whitechapel Gallery (London, 2019), Academy of Fine Arts Vienna (Vienne, 2017), The 2nd CAFAM Biennale (Beijing, 2014), and the 17th Biennale of Sydney (Sydney, 2010). In 2013, Su published an artist novel Berty, and, in 2017, a science fiction anthology Dark Fluid, in which she used science fiction as a tool for social justice.
Su currently lives and works between Hong Kong and Penang.
