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b. 1973 -

Pearl C. Hsiung (born 1973) is a Taiwanese-born American multi-media artist based in Los Angeles.

Pearl C. Hsiung was born in Taichung, Taiwan in 1973 and raised and educated in California. However, she and her brother, artist Michael C. Hsiung, spent time in Taiwan during several summer breaks from school. Hsiung received her a BA in art from University of California of Los Angeles in 1997, and she earned her MFA from Goldsmith’s College, London, in 2004.

After graduating college, she began a career in commercial fashion design, but quickly found herself unfulfilled. Hsiung then decided to pursue an MFA in art at Goldsmiths College in London.[4] She primarily works in painting, installation and video. Hsiung's earlier works reflect her Taiwanese roots and Los Angeles upbringing in its use of bright colors, hard-edged application techniques, and graphics informed by pop culture and contemporary street style. The subject matter usually focuses on nature and how humans relate and interact with and within it. Through her artwork Hsiung looks to understand how as humans we see and apply biological, social and cultural patterns in natural environments.

Hsiung's painting style can be described as contemporary surrealism with a mixture of sci-fi and other components. Currently, she is a working artist and arts educator based in Los Angeles, California. In 2021, her tile artwork High Prismatic, was installed at the Grand Ave Arts/Bunker Hill subway station of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority.


Hsiung works in a variety of media including paper, video, and paint. Her subject matter focuses on sci-fi landscapes painted in bold, primary colors. She is influenced by L.A street art and Asian pop culture. Hsiung uses a style where she attempts to imitate computer graphics by hand while using mural-like bright colors. Hsiung's bold landscapes are influenced by the her summers in Taiwan as well as Southern California and Los Angeles street murals and advertisements. She creates psychedelic vistas in many of her works that she figuratively relates to consciousness. Hsiung also uses humor in her art work to critique culture identity and to challenge art making and common notions.