Hsuan Chung is a Taiwanese artist and photographer based in Georgia, United States, whose practice investigates photography as both image and material evidence. Working primarily with film and process-driven interventions, Chung examines how landscapes register time, how identities are shaped by historical forces, and how memory persists through residue, absence, and transformation. Their work operates at thresholds—between sea and land, visibility and erasure, human perception and deep time—where the photograph becomes a site of contact rather than a neutral record.
Chung received an MFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) and holds a BA in Mass Communication from I-SHOU University in Taiwan. Their approach is informed by a hybrid background spanning photojournalism, studio practice, education, and exhibition production. Chung previously worked as a photojournalist for United Daily News in Taiwan and later served as Preparator and Lead Installer at Jackson Fine Art Gallery in Atlanta, experiences that continue to shape their understanding of photographic authorship, presentation, and visual ethics.
Through strategies such as long exposure, constructed gesture, and chemical collaboration with natural elements—including seawater-soaked negatives—Chung foregrounds uncertainty as a generative force within photographic time. Their images frequently oscillate between legibility and dissolution, emphasizing the photograph’s capacity to embody fracture, repetition, and interruption as conditions of cultural memory.
Chung is the author of Formosa Aborigines (2019), held in permanent collections including the Taiwan Indigenous Peoples Resource Center, the National Central Library, National Taiwan University Library, and SCAD’s ACA Library. Their work has been recognized by awards such as Budapest International Foto Awards (BIFA), the MUSE Photography Awards, and the International Photography Awards (IPA), and has been exhibited internationally across the United States, Europe, and Asia.
