Simmons University presents Rage & Ecstasy featuring new and site specific work by Szu-Chieh Yun. This exhibition is on view from Thursday, October 2, 2025 to Friday, December 12, 2025 with an artist talk on Thursday, November 6, from 6-7pm.
Through painting and intricately beaded work, Szu-Chieh Yun explores the relationship between power, energy, and identity in her ongoing two-part series Rage & Ecstasy. In Rage & Ecstasy, Yun expertly uses humor, disgust, anger, and pain to express her deep empathy for the collective human experience. She understands that victims can also be villains and that the contradictions we carry are not flaws but echoes of our shared humanity. Her repetitive and devotional process of transforming small marks into expansive figurative work reminds us that “the whole becomes greater than the sum of its parts.”
Szu-Chieh Yun is a Taiwanese-American artist based in Boston, MA. She received her MFA from University of Arts London at Wimbledon College of Arts 2016 and her BFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2011, during which she completed a semester abroad in the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China. Her work has been exhibited in the U.S. and internationally. Szu-Chieh is an experienced visual arts educator who has worked extensively with low-income students in Boston as a mentor and internationally as an art teacher in Shanghai. She attended Studios at Mass MoCA in 2022 and is currently an adjunct professor at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
Trustman Art Gallery hours are 10 AM – 4:30 pm, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and 10 am – 7 pm on Thursday. The Gallery is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible. The Trustman Art Gallery is located within Simmons University at 300 Fenway, 4th floor, Boston MA 02115. For more information, contact Loretta Park at [email protected]. Find us on Instagram @trustman_gallery or visit the Trustman Art Gallery.