Following Tehching Hsieh’s unprecedented gift of 11 career-defining works to Dia in 2024, Tehching Hsieh is the first retrospective of the Taiwanese-American performance artist’s career. The exhibition covers 1978 through 1999, a period when Hsieh enacted his five iconic One Year Performances followed by a thirteen-year performance. During the yearlong works, Hsieh lived locked in a cage (One Year Performance 1978–1979 [Cage Piece]); punched a time clock every hour on the hour (One Year Performance 1980–1981 [Time Clock Piece]); lived entirely outdoors (One Year Performance 1981–1982 [Outdoor Piece]); lived tied to another artist, Linda Montano (Art/Life One Year Performance 1983–1984 [Rope Piece made in collaboration with Linda Montano]); and refrained from looking at, talking about, and making art (One Year Performance 1985–1986 [No Art Piece]). During Hsieh’s final and longest performance, Tehching Hsieh 1986–1999 (Thirteen Year Plan), the artist made artwork but withheld everything produced from the public. The exhibition is organized around an architectural model that spatially conveys the relative time endured for each performance.  

Tehching Hsieh is co-curated by Humberto Moro, Dia’s deputy director of program, and Adrian Heathfield, guest curator, with Liv Cuniberti, curatorial assistant.

All exhibitions at Dia are made possible by the Economou Exhibition Fund.

Tehching Hsieh was born in Taiwan in 1950. He lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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