Winnie Weiyun SZU (司惟云) is a Taiwanese artist based in Chicago.
I am a third-culture artist caught between worlds where identities blur and meanings shift. My work often emerges from the bilingual ambiguity of words and images, exploring the spaces between perception, interpretation, and connection. This perpetual state of in-betweenness shapes a practice rooted in introspection—a reflection of the elusive search for belonging and resonance.
I find solace in the eternal rhythm of nature, staring at the sun and moon, feeling the quiet pull of something greater. These moments, timeless and tender, linger in my work as abstractions of the bird's eye view I carry within, which become metaphors for the layered emotional terrain of existence.
I intertwine logographic and phonetic language with abstraction, creating a hybrid visual language that loosens the rigid ways we read and interpret. This interplay invites a poetic dialogue, where words and strokes blur boundaries and reveal new ways of understanding.
My work seeks not to resolve these ambiguities but to revel in their vitality, offering glimpses of connection within our fragmented, ever-shifting world.
Winnie Weiyun Szu
b.2001 Taipei, Taiwan
Education:
2024- MFA Painting and Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA
2024: MFA Fine Art, Taipei National University of Art, Taiwan
2024: BA (Hons) Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts, University of the Arts London, United Kingdom.
2023: BFA Fine Art, Taipei National University of Art, Taiwan
Screenings:
2021 ‘Taoyuan City Documentary Film Festival’, Zhongli Lights and Shadow Film Center, Taoyuan
2021 ‘Mirror at Hand’ Three intertwined views of women, photography and their lifeline screening, Taoyuan
Solo Exhibitions:
2024 ‘Wind, wind, blowing free’, NTHU Ze Art Space, Hsinchu
2022 ‘A Clean Well Lighted Place’, TNUA South-North Art Gallery, Taipei
2019 ‘Come Take the Test with a 97-point Bento’, Haiton Art Center, Taipei
Group Exhibitions:
2024 ‘What’s in a Name’, SAIC 33 building, Chicago
2024 ‘Bioconstellation’, SAIC Maclean, Chicago
2024 ‘Skew the Scale’, the Siragusa Gallery, Chicago
2024 ‘GPT4’, Cultural and Creative Industry Park, New Taipei
2023 ‘PK:restart’, Cultural and Creative Industry Park, New Taipei
2023 ‘LUNATION II’, GREENhaus garden, London
2023 ‘Missed Letters’, Making Space gallery, London
2023 ‘Y’, Chelsea The Triangle Space, London
2023 ‘Traversing x Networking’, Capital Art Center, Taipei
2023 ‘Painting World’, TNUA Bookshop 284 space, Taipei
2023 ‘A Place Without Map’, TNUA Underground Museum, Taipei
2023 ‘Taiwan Royal Academy Winter Exhibition’, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei
2022 ‘Nomadic Playground - Fringe Art Project’, Yuanshan Riverside Park, Taipei
2021 ‘Why no open camera?’, TNUA Underground Museum, Taipei
2021 ‘Misaki Nanako No gorgeous life’, TNUA South-North Art Gallery, Taipei
2021 ‘Cross Border, Love for Freedom Calligraphy Art Festival’, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei
2021 ‘That Doge’, Cultural and Creative Industry Park, New Taipei
2017 ‘We kept some Dogs and named them Cat’, Yongping White Jade Gallery, New Taipei
Collections:
Weiyun Szu is collected by various private collectors in Taiwan.