Artist’s career

Born in 1958 in Hong Kong, Angela Su is known for her biomorphic drawings, docu-fiction, and hair embroidery, exploring imagery of the body through metamorphosis, hybridity, and transformation.

Angela Su received a degree in biochemistry in Canada before pursuing visual arts. 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the history of medical science, her works question the dominant biomedical discourse whilst toying with speculative and superseded medical narratives, contemplating the impact of science and technology on the past, present, and future.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 (London) to present at Tai Kwun, Hong Kong. She has also exhibited in biennales and institutions internationally, including New Museum (New York, 2025), the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2025), Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam (2024), Kaoshiung Museum of Art (2024), Barbican Art Gallery (London, 2024) and Institute of Modern Art (Brisbane, 2024).

Residency in Hong Kong - 2026

The residency Micromégas is designed as part of the cross-project initiated by Videotage - art center in Hong Kong, the Cneai = and the Consulat général de France à Hong Kong et Macao.
The artist is spending a month in France at Fiminco.