Collection: Tehching Hsieh

Tehching Hsieh (born 1950) is a Taiwanese-born performance artist based in New York whose work consists of a series of durational performances of extreme duration and physical commitment carried out between 1978 and 1999. His five major One Year Performances include Time Clock Piece (1980–81), in which he punched a time clock every hour for a year, and Outdoor Piece (1981–82), in which he spent a year entirely outdoors in New York City without entering any shelter. A sixth work, Thirteen Year Plan (1986–1999), culminated in a year of silence followed by a self-imposed retirement from art-making. Hsieh’s work has been recognised as foundational to durational and endurance performance and has been exhibited and collected by major institutions including the Museum of Modern Art, New York.