李旭彬(b.1969~)
生於臺南，現居臺南。藝術創作者／策展人，海馬迴光畫館創辦人，同時身兼臺南藝術大學材質創作與設計系及彰化師範大學美術系講師。三十歲之前是一個土木工程師，經歷臺灣經濟奇蹟、社會、政治運動高峰。曾投身各種社運場景進行參與、記錄、觀察。離開營建顧問工程領域，轉向攝影創作。李旭彬先後在紐約、舊金山以及義大利學習傳統攝影，2003美國舊金山藝術學院藝術碩士（MFA）榮譽畢業生。2000年起陸續於國際攝影節及攝影博物館展出，2010年以災難風景成為國家文藝基金會創作計畫獎助，並分別於2016年臺北雙年展及2017年於巴黎攝影博覽會中展出，作品由德意志證券交易所攝影基金會典藏。
李旭彬著重反身性思考，以影像與文字互為註釋的方式開展敘事，以山水遠景，模擬古典攝影甚或早期無名攝影者的風景紀實影像，以古典攝影形制對應今日攝影的處境，特意給定的作品尺幅，隱然要求的是觀看者必須駐足「在場細勘」，隨像細讀。作品中的靜謐，引領觀者重新思考古典風景攝影中視覺經驗，看似無所敘說的場景，悠悠地感受著地殼長時間變動中的細微痕跡。
重要展覽節錄
2004 《虛像實景》，山西平遙國際攝影節，山西
2005 《湖：趨近於一段跨文化的對話－澳洲與臺灣攝影、聲音、文字新作》聯展，臺北國際藝術村，臺北
2011 《災難風景－李旭彬個展》，海馬迴光畫館，臺南
2016 《當下檔案・未來系譜：雙年展新語》，臺北雙年展，臺北市立美術館，臺北
2017 《家園遺像－楊順發 李旭彬 陳伯義》，巴黎攝影博覽會，巴黎大皇宮，法國
2018 《大排明渠段》，嘉義史蹟資料館，嘉義
2019《改變中的觀點－德意志證券交易所20周年典藏展》，阿姆斯特丹攝影博物館，阿姆斯特丹，荷蘭*
《我們熱愛的攝影－德意志證券交易所典藏展》，德國證券交易所，法蘭克福，德國**
2020 「辶反風景」，嘉義市立美術館開館展，嘉義
2021 《捕風景的人－方慶綿」，嘉義市立美術館，嘉義
《一路上的風景－複復返》，國家攝影文化中心，臺北
《#景－李旭彬・陳伯義雙個展》，非畫廊，臺北
*“Changing Views – 20 Years of Art Collection Deutsche Börse”, Netherland, Amsterdam, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam
**“We Love Photography – 20 Years of Art Collection Deutsche Börse”, Frankfurt, Germany, Deutsche Börse AG, The cube, Eschborn
Lee Hsu-Pin (b. 1969)
A native of Tainan, Lee Hsu-Pin still resides in his hometown today. A working artist and curator, he is the founder of the Fotoaura Institute of Photography in Tainan, as well as a lecturer in the Department of Material Arts and Design at Tainan National University of the Arts and the Department of Fine Arts at National Changhua University of Education. Before the age of 30 he worked as a civil engineer, experiencing Taiwan’s economic miracle and the peak of her social and political movements, during which time he took part in, chronicled, and observed the country’s various social movements. He eventually left the construction engineering consulting field to pursue photography, studying traditional photography successively in New York, San Francisco, and Italy, and earning an honorary Master’s in Fine Art from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco in 2003. Lee has exhibited at international photography festivals and museums since 2000. In 2010, he received a National Culture and Arts Foundation creative project grant for his 2010 Disastrous Landscapes work, exhibiting the resulting work – now housed in the collection of the Gruppe Deutsche Börse Photographic Foundation – at the 2016 Taipei Biennial and 2017 Photo Paris.
Lee Hsu-Pin takes a highly introspective approach, unfolding narratives alternately with images and words as annotations. He uses distant scenic landscapes to emulate classical photography, or the landscape documentary images of early anonymous photographers; he matches classical photographic forms with today’s photographic climate, deliberately sizing the works, so as to subtly demand that viewers stop in their tracks to “carefully inspect at the scene,” and to conduct careful readings of the images. The tranquil quality of the works leads viewers to re-think the visual experience of classic landscape photography; taking in scenes with no apparent narrative, easily feeling the delicate traces of the earth’s changes over time.
Selected Major Exhibitions
2004
Scenes From Virtual Reality, Shanxi Pingyuan International Photography Festival, Shanxi, China.
2005
The Lake: Towards A Cross-Cultural Dialogue – Recent Photography, Sound and Text from Australia and Taiwan join exhibition, Taipei Artist Village
2011
Disastrous Landscapes – Lee Hsu-Pin Solo Exhibition, Foroaura Museum of Photography, Tainan
2016
Taipei Biennial: Gestures and Archives of the Present, Genealogies of the Future, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei.
2017
Images of the Late Homeland – Joint Exhibition of Yang Shun-fa, Lee Hsu-Pin, and Chen Po-I, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2018
Great Ming Era Drainage Channels, Chiayi City Historical Relic Museum, Chiayi
2019
Changing Views – 20 Years of Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Netherlands, Amsterdam, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam.
We Love Photography – 20 Years of Art Collection Deutsche Börse, Frankfurt, Germany, Deutsche Börse AG, The Cube, Eschborn.
2020
Re-Visiting Landscape, Chiayi Art Museum Inaugural Exhibition, Chiayi
2021
The Man Who Captured the Landscape – Photography and Revisit of Fang Ching-Mian, Chiayi Art Museum, Chiayi
The Scenery Enroute – Recurring Returns, National Center of Photography and Images, Taipei
#Scenery – Lee Hsu-Pin ・Chen Po-I Double Solo Exhibition, Beyond Gallery, Taipei