Lisa Hsiao Chen

Lisa Hsiao Chen is the author of Activities of Daily Living (W.W. Norton), a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, and a New Yorker Best Book of 2022. She received a 2025 Andy Warhol Foundation Arts Writers Grant and wrote most recently about the artist Martin Wong for The Paris Review. Born in Taipei, she now lives in Brooklyn.

Features• March 6, 2026

Art Time / Life Time: On Tehching Hsieh’s Thirteen Year Plan

By Lisa Hsiao Chen

This is the second of two reflections Momus published on the occasion of Tehching Hsieh: Lifeworks 1978–1999, on view at Dia Beacon through 2027….

Features, Reviews• January 29, 2026

Authentically Vaginal: The Life Force of Vaginal Davis at PS1

By Lisa Hsiao Chen

Writer, performer, visual artist, curator, filmmaker, musician. A queer icon, “drag terrorist,” and grand madame of the queercore punk movement. A Blacktress, the doyenne…