Origin: Durham, NC, USA
Currently Exhibiting in: New York City
Website: rogerhsia.com
Social Media: Instagram | Portfolio
Bio:
Roger W. Hsia, also known as “Roget8000,” is a New York-based artist whose creative practice merges abstraction, sculpture, and painting into a dynamic, multidisciplinary form. Born in Durham, NC, and trained at Parsons School of Design, The University of Michigan, and The Art Students League, Hsia’s work is a testament to the fusion of intention and spontaneity. His signature style involves sculpting with paint, where layers, textures, and imperfections transform into compositions that reflect the fluidity between opposing forces—such as order and chaos, memory and reality, or nature and society.
Hsia’s work has been exhibited in prominent group and solo exhibitions, including ArtExpo NY, Sorokin Gallery, and The Gertrude White Gallery, and featured in publications like WAG Magazine. His artistic vision is deeply rooted in the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi, emphasizing beauty in imperfection, transience, and natural flow. His creations are rich with meaning, offering audiences immersive, meditative encounters that reflect his exploration of memory, interconnectedness, and transformation.
Featured Artwork at Bushwick Gallery
Souvenirs or Unintended Consequences
- Year of Creation: 2025
- Medium: Acrylic
- Dimensions: 40″ x 30″
- Price: $5,900 USD
Description:
In Souvenirs or Unintended Consequences, Roger Hsia delves into the emotional residue of significant breakups, exploring how relationships leave lasting impressions despite their dissolution. The painting references the Taoist symbol Yin-Yang, representing the interdependence of seemingly opposing forces. Hsia’s layered and sculptural acrylic technique mirrors the complexity of shared experiences, where contrasting energies—love and separation, growth and loss—intertwine and leave behind lasting imprints.
The piece reflects the process of post-breakup self-reflection, where Hsia examines the values, habits, and memories absorbed from past relationships. His technique of blending intentional and organic forms underscores this emotional osmosis, creating a visual representation of how individuals evolve through their interactions with others. Souvenirs or Unintended Consequences is a meditative work that captures the complementary and transformative nature of relationships.
Exhibition Information
Exhibition Title: Love and Heartbreak: A Duality
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 13 / 6PM-8PM
Exhibition Dates: February 13 – February 20
Theme: This exhibition explores the emotional highs and lows of love, capturing the ways relationships both heal and break us. Roger Hsia’s Souvenirs or Unintended Consequences aligns with the exhibition’s central theme by highlighting the lingering effects of past relationships and the ways they shape our identities. Through its reference to the Yin-Yang philosophy and its textured, dynamic surface, the piece invites viewers to contemplate the duality of love and its ability to leave us both wounded and enriched.
Guided audio experience
For accessibility, the full video transcript is provided below for those who prefer to read or are unable to listen.
“What do we carry with us when love ends? What remains—not just in memory, but in the very structure of who we are? In Souvenirs or Unintended Consequences, Roger W. Hsia explores the emotional archaeology of relationships, revealing the way love leaves its imprint long after it has faded.”
“The piece is sculptural, almost alive. Layers of acrylic fold and twist, bending between abstraction and form. The black and white elements push and pull against one another—opposing yet complementary, like the Taoist symbol of Yin-Yang that inspires Hsia’s work. There is tension here. The high-contrast palette suggests duality: love and heartbreak, presence and absence, attachment and release. What was once whole is now fractured, yet its remnants are still deeply intertwined.”
“Hsia’s technique extends beyond painting; it is an act of sculpting with paint itself. The folds are deliberate, shaped as if love has physically altered the canvas—creased, pressed, marked by time. Like the emotional residue of a relationship, these undulating layers refuse to be smoothed away. They remain, evidence of connection, proof of impact.”
“This is a work about transformation—about the way people enter our lives, change us, and leave behind pieces of themselves, whether expected or not. Hsia invites reflection: What habits, what beliefs, what parts of ourselves have been shaped by someone else’s presence? And when love dissolves, what is left behind? A souvenir, or an unintended consequence?”
“In Souvenirs or Unintended Consequences, reflections appear in the folds, the creases, the contrast. Love and loss are never as separate as they seem. They are stitched together, sculpted into us, always present in the fabric of who we become.”