05/12/2025
‘[...]his artistic tools were the rules he set for himself, and his medium was his own life.’
– New York Times
The first-ever retrospective of extraordinary Taiwanese American artist and LADA Patron Tehching Hsieh is now open at Dia Beacon, New York until 2027.
The exhibition Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978–1999 covers the period in which Hsieh enacted his five iconic One Year Performances followed by Tehching Hsieh 1986–1999 (Thirteen Year Plan). Hsieh lived locked in a wooden cage; punched a time clock in his studio every hour, on the hour; lived on New York’s streets without shelter; was tied to another artist, Linda Montano, by an eight-foot rope, and made art but withheld it from the public for thirteen years.
🎥 Visit us in Bethnal Green to browse the publications, articles, DVDs and digital files related to Tehching Hsieh’s practice, and to view documentation of the Lifeworks 1978–1999 displayed on the walls of our Study Room - see for details.
📚 Out of Now: The Lifeworks of Tehching Hsieh (edited by Adrian Heathfield and Tehching Hsieh, LADA and MIT Press, 2009), the first major book on Hsieh’s work, is available from the Live Art Bookshop – link in bio.
