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Hsin-Yao Tseng, 1986 | Cityscapes


Award winning painter Hsin-Yao Tseng was born in Taipei, Taiwan.
After graduated from high school in Taiwan, in 2004 summer, Hsin-Yao came to United State to study aboard.
He works in a range of genres: from lush evocations of San Francisco and other cities to expressive portraits and finally to lustrous interiors in which multiple figures enact a story.


Hsin-Yao’s technique in oils brilliant and sure; he paints in a Romantic, expressive manner that honors the Western tradition while signaling an edgy, contemporary complexity.
Hsin-Yao has recognized by the Art Renewal Center as an ARC Living Master in 2014.
He has exhibited his artworks in a huge number of group shows across the United States, including solo shows, two-man shows, and many other group shows.

He has won the First Place awards at Southwest Art Magazine Artist Excellence competition in 2016; made it to 2016 November cover on Southwest Art magazine; received both Exceptional Merit Award and Certificate of Excellence in International Portrait Society of America, 2012 and 2010; for seven years straight from 2010 to 2017, he has been on the Top 100 Finalists of the ARC International Salon competition.


In the 2012-2013 ARC Salon competition, he received a total of six (6) awards in three different categories of the salon competition, which included one Honorable Mention Award in Landscapes category, three Honorable Mention Awards in Drawing category, and one Finalist Award in Animal category and one Finalist Award in Figurative category; top 50 in the 2009 Salon International at Greenhouse Gallery; earned Second Place in The Artist’s Magazine’s 25th annual contest- Portrait/Figure; and Third Place in the International Artist Magazine (June/July 2008).