Ava Hsueh is a distinguished Taiwanese contemporary artist born in Taichung, Taiwan, in 1956. Renowned for her lifelong dedication to abstract painting, she is regarded as one of the leading figures in the field of postmodern neo-abstraction in Taiwan.

Hsueh has a strong academic background in art. She earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from National Taiwan Normal University in 1979, then pursued advanced studies in the United States. In 1986, she received her Master of Fine Arts from Pratt Institute in New York, and in 1995, she obtained a Ph.D. in Art from the Department of Art and Art Professions at New York University.

Beyond her artistic practice, Hsueh has held significant academic and administrative positions in the art world. She served as Director of the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts (2006–2009) and has been an Honorary Professor at Tainan National University of the Arts, where she also held roles as Dean of the College of Visual Arts, Director of the Doctoral Program in Art Creation and Theory, and Professor of Fine Arts.

Hsueh’s artistic career spans more than three decades, characterized by continuous stylistic evolution influenced by time and personal experience. Her early works were marked by rich, somber color palettes. In the 1990s, she began incorporating found objects—such as fishing nets and lures—into her paintings, symbolizing the tension between the internal and external, emotion and reason. Since the 2000s, she has developed a distinctive intertextual approach through multi-panel compositions, integrating the rationality of geometric abstraction with the expressive qualities of lyrical abstraction to create a dynamic visual and psychological resonance. In her more recent works, recurring motifs such as circles, floating forms, and neural network–like patterns reflect her exploration of the body’s perception and the subconscious.

Her works are included in major public and private collections, including the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, National Art Museum of China, and White Rabbit Gallery in Australia.