MOCA presents: Artist x Artist: Alex Da Corte and Tishan Hsu

MOCA presents: Artist x Artist: Alex Da Corte and Tishan Hsu

Join MOCA Toronto for this season’s edition of Artist x Artist, featuring Alex Da Corte and Tishan Hsu, whose solo exhibitions will be on view at the museum.

Guided by MOCA Artistic Director, Rui Mateus Amaral, the conversation will expand on the artist’s distinct practices, while exploring how they each raise questions about the alienating and transformative effects of entertainment and technology on the human experience.

Da Corte and Hsu are both exhibiting artists in our fall 2024 season at MOCA—running from September 8, 2024 to January 26, 2025.

About the Artists

Alex Da Corte lives and works in Philadelphia. His work has been the subject of several institutional solo exhibitions, the most recent being his 20-year retrospective, Mr. Remember, at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk, Denmark), 2022–23 and the video survey, Fresh Hell, at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa, Japan), 2023. Da Corte was selected for the Roof Garden Commission for the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York) in 2021. Da Corte’s work has been included in prestigious group exhibitions such the Whitney Biennial Quiet as It’s Kept, 2022; the Biennale di Venezia May You Live in Interesting Times (Venice), 2019, and the 57th Carnegie International (Pittsburgh), 2019. 

Recent critical writing includes catalogue essays for the international touring exhibitions Marisol: A Retrospective and Ellsworth Kelly at 100. In 2026, with the Whitney Museum’s Meg Onli and Scott Rothkopf, Da Corte will co-curate the first Roy Lichtenstein retrospective in New York in more than 30 years. Da Corte was the 2023 Philip Guston Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome.

Tishan Hsu lives and works in New York. His recent presentations include solo exhibitions at MAMCO (Geneva) in 2024 and Secession (Vienna) in 2023, inclusion in To Your Eternity, 4th Future of Today Biennale in 2023 (Beijing); The Milk of Dreams, Venice Biennale 2022; 58th Carnegie International: Is it morning for you yet? in 2022 (Pittsburgh); 13th Gwangju Biennale: Minds Rising, Spirits Turning in 2021, and Liquid Circuit, a solo exhibition at the SculptureCenter (New York) in 2020 and Hammer Museum (Los Angeles) in 2021. A new commission for the Highline (New York) is on view now. 

Selected public and private collections that hold Hsu’s work include the Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Centre Pompidou (Paris), MAMCO (Geneva), Museum fur Moderne Kunst (Frankfurt), Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), and The Whitney Museum of American Art (New York).