Ray Tsung Jui Tsou is a Taiwanese multidisciplinary artist and performer. Born in Taiwan, she holds a B.F.A in Acting from Taipei National University of the Arts. She experiments with various mediums, such as painting, textile art, sculpture, dance, acting, and performing arts. Tsou aims to amplify the seemingly meaningless mundane. Using intuitive materials such as unfiltered words, visuals from meditation, impromptu drawings, and improvised movement, she expands on these nuances and create pieces that allow feelings and emotions to organically manifest through abstracted lines, words, and colors. Her work embodies private materials from her past and present such as dreams, fantasies, and emotional memories. Through weaving subconscious experiences into a visual language, Tsou seek to explore the interconnectedness of the collective subconscious within humanity, and to communicate and meditate with both her inner self and the viewers.

As a performer, she had worked with companies including Voleur du Feu Theatre, Anarchy dance theatre, BIU theatre, Thatalright Art Space, and Godot ArtAssociation. Tsou performed im a pause im a fiction im a pervert im a dream by artist Barnett Cohen, as part of Performa Biennial 2023, presented by Canal Projects. In the same year she lead Open Movement I care more about why you move instead of how you move at Performance Space New York. In  2024, Tsou performed in Barnett Cohen’s ANYYYWAYYY WHATEVER at the Centre Wallonie Bruxelles in Paris as part of the performance festival Performissima, Kunsthall Trondheim in Norway, and at Judson Memorial Church in New York, as part of curated evening of performances by JUF.

As a visual artist, she was invited to exhibit her artwork in Taiwan: A World of Orchids exhibition curated by Queens Botanical Garden and the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York in 2022. Tsou’s two solo exhibitions Embroidered Emotions Project and A Strolling Person was showcased in Absence Theater gallery and Atmosphere Cafe in Tainan, Taiwan in 2023.

 

Ray Tsou currently lives and works in New York.​​