Born in Tainan. Hsu has been enrolled to Lee Chung-shen Art studio in 1973, and graduated from the Arts Department of the Taiwan National Academy of the Arts. Hsu has exhibited extensively in Taiwan since 1991 and he has a number of solo exhibitions in Taiwan. Now Hsu lives an works in Sanchih, Taipei county. Recently he also tried to use Chinese outline drawing in ink which was well received.