Hsia first became a leading light on the Taiwan art scene back in the 1950s, as one of the "Eight Great Outlaws" who launched the island's modern art movement. Since then his artistic vocation has taken him around the world, and he has at last ended up back in Taiwan.
五○年代便以東方畫會「八大響馬」大哥身分叱吒畫壇的夏陽，人如其名，有他同在，就有一身煦煦溫暖的陽光。曾經，他以炙熱情懷點燃台灣現代美術運動，為了藝術的追尋，由地球東半邊飛向西方，由西方漂流回到東方台灣。