Tehyi hsieh biography

Tehching Hsiehwas born in 1950 in Nan-Chou, Taiwan. Hsieh dropped out from high school in 1967 and took up painting.

After finished  compulsory military service (1970 – 73), Hsieh had his first solo show at the gallery of the American News Bureau in Taiwan. Shortly after, Hsieh stopped painting.

Xie Xide also known as Hsi-teh Hsieh and as Hilda Hsieh, was a Chinese physicist.

Hsieh made a performance action, Jump, in which he broke both of his ankles. Hsieh trained as a seaman, which he then used as a means to enter the United States. In July, 1974, Hsieh arrived at a small port near Philadelphia.

He was an illegal immigrant in the States for fourteen years until granted amnesty in 1988.

Born in China on to Guan Eng CHIA.

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Confucius Said It First · Selected Pearls Of Wisdom and Buddhism · Chinese Village Folk Tales · Our Little Manchurian Cousin.

Selected Pearls of Wisdom and Buddhism is a book written by Hsieh Tehyi, a renowned Buddhist scholar and practitioner.

Tehyi Hsieh () was a Chinese educator and writer who trained in England at Cambridge University.

 

Starting in the late 1970s, Hsieh made five One Year Performances and a ‘Thirteen Year Plan’, inside and outside his studio in New York City. Using long durations, making art and life simultaneous, Hsieh achieved one of the most radical approaches in contemporary art.

The first four One Year Performances made Hsieh a regular name in the art scene