Davina Hsu
Heaven on Earth
September 20–November 2, 2025
Opening reception Saturday, September 20, 2025, 3–5 PM
Heaven on Earth emerges from a deeply personal revelation: that “heaven” is not a distant or imagined realm but a dimension already present within us. It proposes that our existence reflects a continuous dialogue between the celestial and the earthly. Our spirit carries the imprint of the stars, while our bodies are part of the earth. We don’t need to worship the heavenly gate. We can simply go to the inner temple.
At the heart of this practice is atunement. Through this lens, this body of work is a process of conscious evolution. These works serve as vessels for a deeper unity consciousness. It is an unfolding process through which form is cultivated and symbols emerge and materialize through the act of making.
Heaven on Earth is positioned as a meditation on embodiment and the dissolution of false separations between inner and outer, self and world. It also speaks to a broader shift currently unfolding, a rising awareness of alignment, collective awakening, remembrance, and synchronicity. It marks a moment of personal revelation and resonates with the energetic shifts taking place on Earth at a collective level.
Davina Hsu, Synchronicity, 2025, natural wool felted on soft foam, 31 x 28 x 7 inches
Davina Hsu
My practice functions as a form of transpersonal inquiry, positioning art as a medium for healing and transformation. Rooted in a personal journey of spiritual awakening and heightened sensitivity, I draw upon my spiritual practice and intuitive guidance to investigate vibrational energy, mysticism, emotional well-being, and social wellness. I think of color, sensation, and symbols as energetic information. I use them as conceptual building blocks, composing visual language that carries vibration, intention, and subliminal messaging.
I employ felting as my primary medium, using natural wool fiber as a conduit to explore the fusion of material and spiritual integration—translating my spiritual realizations and holistic intentions into felted tapestries and fiber-based sculptural paintings. Through a meditative process, each piece undergoes multiple rounds of felting, merging material and invocation practice to invoke totemic blessing as vibrational remedies.
My inquiry moves between the visible and invisible, often integrating occult conceptual frameworks into developing my socially engaged concept and interactive medium. I am drawn to the way reality holds a sense of magic. How human vibrations and the subconscious manifest and connect to social constructs, and how identity shapes emotional states. Through my practice, I explore ways to interpret energy and question how meaning is formed and felt in shared spaces.
Davina Hsu, Adored, 2025, natural wool felted on soft foam, 33 x 27 x 7 inches
DAVINA HSU (b. Taipei, Taiwan) is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and energy intuitive. She holds a B.F.A. from Parsons School of Design (New York, 2009) and an M.F.A. from the School of Visual Arts (New York, 2023).
Hsu’s work examines the intersections of energy, materiality, occult mysticism, healing, and socio-emotional dynamics. Centered in a fiber-based practice, her work expands into painting, occult art, participatory social practice, and public art to explore thresholds between the visible and invisible, the transcultural and the metaphysical.
Through the symbolic visual language of fiber and the tactile processes of material engagement, Hsu works with intuitive perception and vibrational resonance, translating states of consciousness, collective energies, symbolic visions, and spiritual transmissions into felted sculptural paintings and tapestries as vibrational remedies. Her practice foregrounds the sensorial and the energetic, positioning material form as a vessel for exploring healing, blessing, and acknowledging multidimensional existence.
Hsu has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions in the US and Taiwan, including ArtBridge Projects (New York, NY), Untitled Art Fair (Miami Beach, FL), The Other Art Fair (Brooklyn, NY), Anderson Art Fair & Autumn Auction (Taipei, Taiwan), ELM Foundation (Brooklyn, NY), Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY), Snow Gallery NYC (New York, NY), Gallery MC (New York, NY), SVA Galleries (New York, NY), Ascent Temple (New York, NY), Illuminated Metropolis Gallery (New York, NY), Sheila Johnson Design Center (New York, NY), and Soka Art Center (Taipei & Tainan, Taiwan). She has completed an artist residency at the Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY) and a public art commission with ArtBridge x Battery Park City Authority (New York, NY).
Her work has been reviewed in Hyperallergic (US), Spectrum NY1 News (US), Two Coats of Paint (US), Marie Claire(Taiwan), Harper’s Bazaar (Taiwan), CANS Asian Contemporary Art (Taiwan), ART INVESTMENT (Taiwan), Art Collection + Design (Taiwan), and ARTITUDE Magazine (Taiwan).
Installation photography by Spencer House Studio