Hilda Shen’s Their Landscapes inaugurates Solo Artist Projects (SAP), a MOCA initiative dedicated to presenting compelling artistic voices through one-person exhibitions of new work. The Brooklyn-based artist will present an arrangement of recent ceramic sculptures and prints in the museum’s Cheng Gallery.
Shen’s artistic practice is characterized by an inquisitive scrutiny of nature and an instinct for deconstruction. The forms can appear both ancient and futuristic, naturally occurring and handmade, undergoing construction and decay. Their details and motifs open up conversations that cut across post-minimalism, Chinese landscape painting, and architectural space.
Hilda Shen was born in Minneapolis (1954) and spent much of her childhood in upstate New York before settling in New York City in the 1970s. Her father grew up in Beijing while her mother was raised in Hangzhou. Shen studied classical music at Oberlin College before shifting to the visual arts. She lives and works in Brooklyn.
Shen’s sculpture, prints, drawings, and installations have been shown throughout the New York City area, Seattle, and Beijing, and most recently in a solo show at Starr Suites in Brooklyn.