Chemin Hsiao (蕭喆旻, Taiwan) is a visual artist based in Queens and Brooklyn (Chashama Studio Space), New York. Hsiao received his BFA and MFA from the School of Visual Arts. In 2021, his artist banners proposal “Dandelions Know” is selected as the winner for the Noguchi Museum to raise awareness to the anti-Asian violence surging during the pandemic. He was also a recipient of New Work Grant (2017, 2019, 2021) and ArtSite Public Art Commissioning (2018) from Queens Council on the Arts.

Working with water-based mediums on paper by painting and printmaking, he aims to capture the personal emotions toward subjects or atmosphere, via the elusive connections from memories/cultural background.

Hsiao has taken part in artist residencies at the Kingsbrae International Residence for the Arts in Canada, SU-CASA Residency in New York, and the Cuttyhunk Island Artist Residency in Massachusetts. He was selected as one of the ProjectArt resident artists in Windsor Park Library (Queens), and a fellow at the ARTWorks, Inc. program supported by the Jerome Foundation at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning. He also participated in the Immigrant Artist Program at the New York Foundation for the Arts in 2016 as a mentee, and 2022/23 as a mentor.

Since 2019, he has completed several commissioned public murals for the Queens community including Jackson Heights (82nd Street Partnership), Elmhurst Sculpture Park (RPGA Studio), Union Street in Flushing (Asian American Federation), and the SkyView Center in Flushing (ShopCore Properties) and for the Brooklyn community in Prospect Heights (Nin Hao Restaurant).

He has exhibited in solo exhibition at Queens Botanical Garden, and group exhibitions at the Walter Wickiser Gallery, SFA Projects, New York Foundation for the Arts, Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, El Taller Art Center, New York Hall of Science, Abrons Arts Center, E. Tay Gallery, Local Project Art Space, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Taipei Cultural Center, Maggi Peyton Gallery, Society of illustrator Gallery, Gallery Nucleus in the United States, and LiTE-HAUS Galerie and Direktorenhaus Gallery in Berlin, Germany.

Besides his studio practice, Hsiao serves as a professor for St. John’s University, New York School of Interior Design, and University of Mount Saint Vincent. Hsiao has also taught in-person and virtual visual arts workshops to students from kindergarten to seniors for organizations such as the Met Museum, Noguchi Museum, New York Botanical Garden, Queens Museum, Queens Botanical Garden, Flushing Town Hall, ProjectArt, Queens Public Library, Abrons Arts Center, and various Senior Centers in Queens/Brooklyn.