Inez Suen

05/18/2026

Spent the afternoon at Wrightwood 659 for Martin Wong: Chinatown USA — an incredible exhibition in one of Chicago’s most beautifully considered architectural spaces by Tadao Ando.

The show traces Martin Wong’s deeply personal vision of Chinatown, language, migration, q***r identity, urban life, and cultural memory through more than 100 works. Tender, strange, meticulous, funny, and heartbreaking all at once.

Particularly moving to see Wong’s relationship to Chinese identity explored with such nuance — especially for an artist who existed between cultures, histories, and cities. One of the strongest museum shows I’ve seen in Chicago in recent years.

Highly recommended if you’re in town this summer.

Wrightwood 659 exhibition info

04/23/2026

Quick stop at the Art Institute of Chicago with
Matisse’s Jazz: Rhythms in Color

03/14/2026

At Blindspot Gallery :
Swallowing Rumination Gracefully by Trevor Yeung

Yeung continues his long investigation into ecosystems of care—aquariums, filtration systems, and carefully constructed environments that sit somewhere between biology, design, and emotional metaphor.

The work quietly probes our desire to nurture, control, and project meaning onto living systems.

A restrained, thoughtful exhibition that rewards close looking.

11/01/2025

The 14th Taipei Biennial 2025
Whispers on the Horizon
Opened last night
Taipei Fine Arts Museum
Curated by Sam Bardaouil and Till Fellrath, this edition brings together 54 artists from 35 cities worldwide, with 33 newly commissioned works and site-specific installations that respond to Taiwan’s layered histories and the architecture of the museum itself.

Exploring yearning — as memory, longing, and the space between hope and loss — the Biennial unfolds across time and geography, connecting the personal with the collective, and the poetic with the political.

📍Taipei Fine Arts Museum
🗓️ On view through 2025

08/25/2025

Donald Locke: Resistant Forms
Spike Island, Bristol | August 2025

At Spike Island , I saw Resistant Forms, a landmark exhibition of Donald Locke (1930–2010).

Locke’s practice reshaped Caribbean modernism—ceramics, painting, and assemblage bound together with wit, history, and invention. His works juxtapose colonial legacies with fragments of the everyday, transforming them into objects at once surreal and grounded.

Knowing the work of his son, Hew Locke , it was powerful to encounter the father’s practice. An intergenerational dialogue in form and politics, showing how artistic legacies ripple outward across time and place.

05/12/2025

05/09/2025

Just over a year ago, I met Annie Chen in Jingdezhen, China. She welcomed me into her studio with open arms — we shared stories, laughter, a meal, and even some time at the wheel and piano. That day, I first encountered the depth of her practice.

Annie’s work reflects a truth we all feel but often forget — that nothing in life is static. Like clay in motion, she embraces change, transformation, and the beautiful tension between order and chaos. Watching her evolve over the past year has been deeply inspiring.

It’s been an honor to witness her journey and I’m so excited for everyone to experience this show.

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一年前，我在景德镇遇見了安妮—— 她熱情地接待了我，讓我試拉坯機、彈鋼琴，我們一起吃飯、聊天、笑聲不斷。就是那一天，我第一次真正認識她的創作。

安妮的作品如她的人生觀：生活不是靜止的，唯一不變的是變化。她擁抱轉化，在秩序與混沌之間找到詩意與力量。在過去的一年，看著她不斷成長，無論是作為藝術家還是個體，都讓我無比敬佩。

能見證她這段旅程，是我的榮幸。希望大家一起來欣賞這場展覽。

#陶溪川 #景德鎮藝術家 #當代陶瓷 #藝術開幕