Hao Ni
Selected Works
Athletic Student (After a Basketball Game)
2024polyester socks purchased from a Taiwanese athletic student through the local foot fetish marketplace on Twitter, spandex and resin over handmade paper over 3d printed plastic, monitor, cables
scultpure: 57 × 30 × 30 cm (22 ½ × 11 ¾ × 11 ¾ inches); monitor: 36 × 22.5 cm (14 ⅛ × 8 ⅞ inches); video: 12''
Lovers
2024cotton socks purchased from a Taiwanese couple through the local foot fetish marketplace on Twitter, wood, T-shirt, resin, potpourri, dust, coffee cup stains, hair, veneers, steel drawer handle, cardboard, monitor, cables
scultpure: 27 × 64 × 54 cm (10 ⅝ × 25 ¼ × 21 ¼ inches); monitor: 36 × 22.5 cm (14 ⅛ × 8 ⅞ inches); video: 2' 21''
salaryman no.2
2024suit socks purchased from a Taiwanese office worker through the local online foot fetish market place on Twitter, wood, rubber, paper, celluclay, monitor, cables
sculpture: 52 × 37 × 23.5 cm (20 ½ × 14 ⅝ × 9 ¼ inches); monitor: 36 × 22.5 cm (14 ⅛ × 8 ⅞ inches); video: 1' 21''
loli no.1
2024cotton socks bought from a Taiwanese girl through the local foot fetish marketplace on Twitter, foam, flocking powder, paint, wood, hair tie, video monitor, cables
sculpture: 36 × 26 × 27.5 cm (14 ⅛ × 10 ¼ × 10 ⅞ inches); monitor: 36 × 22.5 cm (14 ⅛ × 8 ⅞ inches); video: 1' 09''
T-shirt hat for Balenciaga 53rd Couture Collection
2024Epoxy resin on Balenciaga T-shirt, Look 7
approximately 75 x 75 x 45cm
Filters 4
2022steal, wood, 3D printed plastic, crystal glass
118 × 50 × 44 cm (46 ½ × 19 ⅝ × 17 ⅜ inches)
Ice Embroidery
2022digital embroidery, steel structure
136 × 70 × 40 cm (53 ½ × 27 ½ × 15 ¾ inches)
Embroidery 1
2022digital embroidery, steel structure
223 × 110 × 45 cm (87 ¾ × 43 ¼ × 17 ¾ inches)
Embroidery 2
2022digital embroidery, steel structure
203 × 81 × 44 cm (79 ⅞ × 31 ⅞ × 17 ⅜ inches)
Filters 3
2022steal, wood, hand-made paper, threads, 3D printed plastic, acrylic paint, mix media
120 × 63 × 75 cm (47 ¼ × 24 ¾ × 29 ½ inches)
Filters 1
2022steal, wood, hand-made paper, threads, 3D printed plastic, acrylic paint, mix media
290 × 140 × 140 cm (114 ⅛ × 55 ⅛ × 55 ⅛ inches)
Fire Embroidery
2022digital embroidery, steel structure
148 × 67 × 26 cm (58 ¼ × 26 ⅜ × 10 ¼ inches)
Filters 2
2022steal, wood, hand-made paper, threads, 3D printed plastic, acrylic paint, mix media
290 × 130 × 130 cm (114 ⅛ × 51 ⅛ × 51 ⅛ inches)
SAMFNXOY
2022cotton and resin
15 × 52 × 50 cm (5 ⅞ × 20 ½ × 19 ⅝ inches)
Grid V
2021wire basket, Snuggle Reed Diffuser - White Tea, microwaved white melt & pour soap
53 × 55 × 18 cm (20 ⅞ × 21 ⅝ × 7 ⅛ inches)
Grid VI
2021wire basket, Farcent Deodorizer- Sakura Romance, microwaved white melt & pour soap
38 × 58 × 14 cm (15 × 22 ⅞ × 5 ½ inches)
Grid VII
2021wire basket, Baby Bear Fabric Fragrance Spray- Forest Waterfall, microwaved white melt & pour soap
8 × 55 × 15 cm (11 × 21 ⅝ × 5 ⅞ inches)
The Harvester (stationery store abstraction)
2021testing papers, wood, felt, handmade paper, aluminum, acrylic, PLA plastic, Xacto knife, cutting board, eraser, sticky page markers, eraser, plastic binder parts, sharpened pencils
82 × 120 × 10 cm (32 ¼ × 47 ¼ × 3 ⅞ inches)
Breaching charge 2
2019found and customized objects on replica of breaching charge
210 × 103 × 10 cm (82 ⅝ × 40 ½ × 3 ⅞ inches)
The “breaching charges” are inspired by a fictional tactical breaching explosive mat used in “Rainbow Six Siege,” an online shooter game that centers around raids by special forces. The game is based on real-life governmental anti-terrorism unit operations. Players are divided into a defense team that reinforces walls and sets up barricades and traps to hinder attackers, and an attack team that raids buildings by breaking down walls and disabling traps in their attempts to eliminate the opponent. Players use the “breaching charge” tool to blast through spaces. In Ni’s show, these tools become quilts that narrate movement-based violence, specifically, authorities’ abilities to “move through walls” in dense urban environments to control people.
Not yet titled
2019wooden table with steel legs, fluorescent lights powered by Tesla coils, sand, mixed media
approx.: 600 × 300 × 100 cm (236 ¼ × 118 ⅛ × 39 ⅜ inches)
Residue
2015-20166 light boxes, enamel paint, lead solder, and magnets on cast plastic airplane and space shuttles, fluorescent light
each box: 122 × 61 cm (48 × 24 inches)
Breath I, II & III
2019embossed, gold and silver foil stamped and printed PVC plastic cards aluminium, steel and plastic hardware, servo motors and other machine parts and sensors
86 × 135 × 20 cm (33 ⅞ × 53 ⅛ × 7 ⅞ inches)
Negotiation of desire
2018acrylic paint on plexiglass
82 × 23 × 23 cm (32 ¼ × 9 × 9 inches)
Video
Biography
Gallery Exhibitions
Other Venues
Selected Press
CV
2014
Sculpture MFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
2011
BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2024
‘The Air Beneath Our Feet’, T293, Rome
‘AHU: Walking in Ether’, Fotoaura Institute of Photography, Taiwan
2022
‘AHU trilogy part I: The Great Filtration’, T293, Rome
‘The Lathery Enfold’, Gallery Vacancy, Liste Art Fair Basel, Switzerland
2019
‘Trust Me, Love Me’, Vacancy Gallery, Shanghai
‘Siege’, T293, Rome
‘Ambush’, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2018
‘ke dalam hutan’, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2016
‘Santurce’, Peligro Amarillo gallery, San Juan, Puerto Rico
‘Sleep Mode’, Taiwan Academy, Los Angeles
‘Light Studies’, 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica
2015
‘Ghost Hit Wall’, Yellow Peril Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
2013
‘Proximity’, Yellow Peril Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
2011
‘You Have Your Fortress’, I Have Mine, Pop Up Art Loop, Chicago
2024
Balenciaga 53rd Couture collection
‘Fragment I’, Commune Gallery, Vienna
2022
‘What If Attitudes Become Letters? Writing – Correspondence – Context – Gender – Meme’, Hengshan Calligraphy Art Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan
‘10,000 Flowers’, Digital Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
‘Walking the Crack’, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
‘Either is Good’, Each Modern, Taipei, Taiwan
‘Self-Dismiss’, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, China
2021
‘TAV Art Project Trilogy: Beginning’, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei, Taiwan
2020
‘A Long Hello’, UCCA, Beijing, China
‘Like a Luminous Animal’, Solid Art, Taipei, Taiwan
’01_LOVE’, Digital Art Festival Taipei 2020, Taipei, Taiwan
‘Liquid Love’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei, Taiwan
‘Looking for Another Family’, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
‘MMCA Asia Project’, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
2018
‘Nullstate’, Absolute Art Space, Tainan, Taiwan
Well-Wishes’, Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai, China
‘Today Will Happen’, Pavilion Project, The 12th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
2017
‘OPEN (C)ALL: TRUTH, BRIC’, Brooklyn, New York
‘Dwelling’, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, New York
‘Vive Art Benefit’, Honey Ramka Gallery, New York
‘Vestigial Future’, CAAC Gallery, New York
2016
‘Gently Weeps’, Sleep Center, New York
‘Fertile Solitude’, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston
2015
‘Accidental Translation’, Fjord, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
‘Retina of the Unconscious’, The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Art Gallery, New York
‘The Moment’, New York Hall of Science, Queens, New York
2014
‘Taipei Arts Awards’, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
‘Collectors lll: Discerning Eyes’, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, Massachusetts
‘Taiwanese American Arts Council Recognition’, Queens Museum, Queens, New York
‘Unlovely’, 111front street gallery, Brooklyn, New York
‘Roving Room’, Habersham Mills, Demorest, Georgia
2013
‘Under The Influence’, Gelman Gallery, RISD, Providence, Rhode Island
‘Work Harder’, Yellow Peril Gallery, New York
‘Stalactite’, The Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island
‘Heavy’, Sol Koffler Gallery, RISD, Providence, Rhode Island
‘Transmediation’, Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York
2012
‘With Other People’, With Other Sons, Heaven Gallery, Chicago
‘B.A.D’, Beverly Art Center, Chicago
2011
‘Wood Worked’, Chicago Urban Art Society, Chicago