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Installation view, *Greater New York*, MoMA PS1, April 16 – August 17, 2026. Courtesy of MoMA PS1. Photo: Kris Graves

Installation view, “Goldfish,” Ulrik, New York, May 9– June 13, 2026.

Taro Masushio, AS IF, 2025, photo developing solvent on paper
Taro Masushio, *I would prefer not to*, 2025, photo developing solvent on paper
Installation views, *Cool Invitations 11*, XYZ Collective, Tokyo, January 18 – February 2, 2025.

Taro Masushio, *Untitled (CB #10)*, 2024, UV print on found cardboard

Installation view, “Pass,” Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, September 21 – November 30, 2026. Photo: South Ho.

Installation view, “Liar, Liar,” Ulrik, New York, April 6–May 20, 2023.

Installation view at Liste Art Fair Basel, 2021

Installation view, “Rumor Has It” Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, December 23, 2020 – February 20, 2021. Photo: Michael Yu.

Taro Masushio, *Untitled 14*, 2020, Silver gelatin type LE print

Taro Masushio, *Untitled 19*, 2020, Silver gelatin type LE print

Born in Japan, Taro Masushio is an artist based in New York City. He received his BA from UC Berkeley and MFA from New York University and has taught at both institutions. He has held solo exhibitions at Ulrik; New York (2026, 2023), Scheusal, Berlin (2025) and Empty Gallery (2024, 2020). He has also exhibited at MoMA PS1, Bodenrader, 47 Canal, Capsule Shanghai, Immanence, Pacific Film Archive, amongst others. He was the 2022/23 City Artist in Residence at Internationales Atelier-stipendium Mönchengladbach. In Fall 2024, he joined Cooper Union; New York as the Henry Wolf Chair in Photography.

PRESS:
Jaime Chu, ‘Taro Masushio Folds the Fictional In on Itself“, Spike Art Magazine
Wong Binghao, ‘Pass, Taro Masushio at Empty Gallery,’ Mousse

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2026-07-04	Tishan Hsu in Wetware, Rain Rain, curated by Spine
	The exhibition Wetware, curated by Spine (Aidan Chisholm and Laura Audrey Brown), opens on July 9, and runs through August 7, 2026. Participating artists include Alison Knowles, Aviva Silverman, Bettina, Early Shinada, Faith Icecold, Khia Hong, Patty Chang, Rafael Sánchez and Tishan Hsu. The exhibition is hosted by RAINRAIN Gallery in New York. Read more …
2026-06-22	Catherine Christer Hennix's Cosmological Critique at Badischer Kunstverein
	The exhibition Cosmological Critique showcases the complex work of Catherine Christer Hennix (1948, Stockholm – 2023, Istanbul), whose five decades of artistic activity involved the amalgamation of music, mathematics, language and spirituality into a singular space of thought. Hennix conceived her works as ‘semiotical objects’ – such as signs, diagrams and texts, as well as sound and light compositions – through which she sought to investigate and to transform perception and the processes of meaning generation. Beginning in the late 1960s, and with points of departure in the experimental music scenes of Stockholm and New York, Hennix developed an approach that shifted between minimalist composition, mathematical research and metaphysical speculation. Formative for her development were encounters with La Monte Young, Marian Zazeela and Pandit Pran Nath, whose ideas about time, sound and continuity had a lasting influence. In parallel, she was intensively preoccupied with the philosophical, logical and linguistic bases of mathematics, and was, among other things, a guest professor at the first lab for artificial intelligence at MIT. Cosmological Critique is the most extensive presentation of this artist to date, and ranges from early graphic scores and immersive installations to abstract Nō dramas, paintings and sculptures, as well as questions of transfeminist aesthetics and politics. Recurring concepts drawn from mathematics and psychoanalysis function here less as references, and instead actually structure the works themselves. These are interpretable as manifestations of a radical conceptual and critical project that interweaves poetic, mathematical, musical and artistic forms of knowing to transcend Western categories of thought and medial boundaries in pursuit of cosmic perspectives. Curated by Anja Casser, Lawrence Kumpf and Moritz Nebenführ The exhibition is produced in collaboration with Malmö Konsthall, The Etymon Foundation (New York) and Empty Gallery (Hong Kong) as well as Marcus Pal as artistic advisor. Funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation and the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and the Media. Read more …
2026-06-19	Doris Guo in Springbrett: Dark Adaptation at Kistefos Museum, Norway
	This year’s Springboard exhibition, Dark Adaptation, is curated by Abirami Logendran. Bringing together works by Jack Whitten, Doris Guo, Glenn Ligon, Solveig Lønseth, Lorna Simpson, and Wolfgang Tillmans, the exhibition explores visibility, perception, and opacity. Through painting, photography, video, printmaking, and installation, the artists investigate how meaning emerges in the encounter between artwork and viewer. Participating artists include Jack Whitten, Doris Guo, Glenn Ligon, Solveig Lønseth, Lorna Simpson, and Wolfgang Tillmans. The exhibition will be on view until September 20th, 2026. Read more …
2026-06-10	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork, James T. Hong in 16th Gwangju Biennale
	Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork and James T. Hong are amongst the 43 artists and collectives participating in the upcoming 16th Gwangju Biennale. Titled You Must Change Your Life. This edition is led by Ho Tzu Nyen with curators Che Kyongfa, Park Gahee and Brian Kuan Wood and will run from September 5 to November 15. The biennale takes its title from the famous final line of a 1908 poem by Rainer Maria Rilke, in which a viewer confronts a broken ancient statue and suddenly finds their way of seeing overturned. Perspectives and positions shift, and you realize that we can’t go on as before. I must change. Read more …
2026-05-05	Taro Masushio, Ulrik
	Taro Masushio’s second solo exhibition, Goldfish, at Ulrik; New York will be on view from May 9 through June 12. The gallery will host an opening reception from on Friday, May 15, 6-9pm. For further details, visit the gallery’s Instagram at the link below. Read more …
2026-05-05	Doris Guo, Still Human at 15 Orient
	Doris Guo will open her first solo exhibition at 15 Orient in New York City on Friday, May 8, from 6 through 9pm: 15 Orient presents “Still Human”, a solo-exhibition by Doris Guo. Centered on a large slideshow video projection, the show features a constellation of new opaque projector sculptures, cast foam supports, imploded metal compositions, and photographs of an elusive mountain. Read more …
2026-04-28	Empty Gallery in The Art Journal
	Empty Gallery was recently featured in the April 2026 issue of The Art Journal in a feature on art initiatives in the Southern district of Hong Kong island, written by Rachel Yang.
2026-04-24	Richard Hawkins, Potentialities at Kestner Gesellschaft
	The Kestner Gesellschaft is pleased to present Potentialities, a major survey of works by Richard Hawkins. Since the early 1990s, the Los Angeles–based artist has developed a singular practice centered nerdy research, the dynamics of fandom and desire, and on the intense pleasure of looking. Comprising more than 100 works across eight bodies of work, the exhibition offers the first major institutional overview of Hawkins’s oeuvre in more than a decade. Potentialities focuses on works produced over the past twenty years, spanning painting, sculpture, ceramic reliefs, and AI-generated videos that draw on online subcultures and shared memes. Read more …
2026-04-17	Empty Gallery featured in Broadsheet
	Empty Gallery has been featured in the Australian publication “Broadsheet” exploring Hong Kong’s spaces for art. Read more …
2026-04-16	Taro Masushio, Cici Wu in Greater New York, MoMA PS1
	On view from April 16–August 17, 2026, this edition of Greater New York will mark PS1’s 50th anniversary, and rather than bringing on any outside curators, the museum has this time leaned on its staff to organize the show. The exhibition’s curatorial team includes director Connie Butler, chief curator and director of curatorial affairs Ruba Katrib, associate curators Jody Graf and Elena Ketelsen, assistant curator Kari Rittenbach, curatorial assistant Sheldon Gooch, and curatorial coordinator Andrea Sánchez. Taro Masushio and Cici Wu are amongst the participating artists of this year’s exhibition. Please see the link below for further information. Read more …