Tehching Hsieh

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Full Name	Tehching Hsieh
Occupation	Visual Artist
Date Of Birth	Dec 31, 1950(1950-12-31)
Age	74
Birthplace	Nanzhou
Country	Taiwan
Birth City	Pingtung County
Horoscope	Capricorn

Tehching Hsieh Biography

Tehching Hsieh is one of the most popular and richest Visual Artist who was born on December 31, 1950 in Nanzhou, Pingtung County, Taiwan.

Tehching (Sam) Hsieh (謝德慶; born 31 December 1950; Nan-Chou, Pingtung County, Taiwan) is a performance artist. He has been called a “master” by fellow performance artist Marina Abramović.

He was one of 15 children from a family in southern Taiwan. He dropped out from high school and started creating paintings; he went on to create several performance pieces after finishing his three years of compulsory military service in Taiwan. In 1974, he jumped ship to a pier on the Delaware River, near Philadelphia, and made his way to New York City, working as a dishwasher and cleaner during his first four years there.

Tehching Hsieh Net Worth

Tehching Hsieh is one of the richest Visual Artist from Taiwan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tehching Hsieh 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

The next year, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York exhibited a collection documenting his work. The exhibition, titled “Performance 1: Tehching Hsieh” and organized by Klaus Biesenbach, was the inaugural installation in a series of original performance pieces at the museum. Positively reviewed by the New York Times, the show led to a larger recognition of Hsieh’s work. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York also showed one of his works the same year as part of its retrospective exhibition, “The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia: 1860-1989.”

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Who is Tehching Hsieh Dating?

According to our records, Tehching Hsieh married to Li Qinqin. As of December 1, 2023, Tehching Hsieh’s is not dating anyone.

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In this performance, Hsieh and Linda Montano spent one year between 4 July 1983 and 4 July 1984 tied to each other with an 8-foot-long (2.4 m) rope. They had to stay in the same room when inside, but were not allowed to touch each other until the end of the one-year period. Both shaved their hair in the beginning of the year, and the performance was notarized initially by Paul Grassfield and later by Pauline Oliveros.

Facts & Trivia

K. Ranked on the list of most popular Visual Artist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Taiwan. Tehching Hsieh celebrates birthday on December 31 of every year.

A little after 1999, he declared he was no longer an artist. He has, however, continued to give interviews to an art audience. He has expressed that he likes the work of Praxis (Delia Bajo and Brainard Carey).

Top Facts about Tehching Hsieh

1. Tehching Hsieh is a Taiwanese-American performance artist.
2. He is known for his year-long durational performances.
3. Hsieh’s five one-year performances are considered groundbreaking works of art.
4. His work explores themes of time, labor, and endurance.
5. Hsieh was awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship in 1983.
6. In 2009, he received the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale.
7. The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City has exhibited his work multiple times.
8. Hsieh’s “One Year Performance 1980-1981” involved punching a time clock every hour on the hour for an entire year.
9. His “One Year Performance 1978-1979” required him to live inside a cage for a year without any human contact.
10. Hsieh retired from making art in 1999 to focus on teaching and writing about his experiences as an artist.