Born in 1985. Employing a variety of mediums such as video, installation, and texts, Yu Liu’s gradually develop a series of field studies of documentary nature as a kind of working methodology in relation to her artistic practice. How human visions the world, how attributes of spaces change, and how things are constantly being defined in a system-these all contribute to giving an account on the progression of humanity. A series of works are later created with a research focus on less visible communities marginalized by structural societal factors. The existence of these communities often reflects the intricacies of its contemporary society, and, furthermore, offers a sample of a specific historical moment with regard to a grander context-a boundary-breaking reexamination that helps disrupt strictly defined scientific methodologies and the science institution with which we are all too familiar.
Yu Liu has held solo exhibitions at Hong-gah Museum, Kuandu Museum of Fine Art, her works are as well as part of art projects and group exhibitions at domestic art museums and galleries, Power Station of Art, Cattle Depot Artist Village, Arko Art Center, and Tokyo Wonder Site. Liu has participated in residencies Los Angeles and Indonesia. Liu currently lives and works in Taipei.
｜Biography｜
1985 Born in Taiwan
2007 Department of Sculpture, National Taiwan University of Art, Taipei, Taiwan
2013-2014 live in Australia
Now live and work in Taipei
｜Selected Solo Exhibitions｜
2021 Cabinet of Curiosities Liu Yu Solo Exhibition, Absolute Space, Tainan, Taiwan
2018 The history of the concave and the convex, Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
｜Selected Group Exhibitions｜
2021 Rehearsing the Future, ALIEN Art Centre, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2021 Housing Things, Our museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2021 Phantasmapolis-2021 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition-ANIMA, Hong-gah Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 If Narratives Become the Great Flood, Meme-Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2020 The Eighth Huayu Youth Award Exhibition: A Long Hello, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China
2020 Shenzhen Bay STArts Festival-the Final Prophet, Bay Arts Mall, Shenzhen, China
2019 The Asian Artist Moving Image Platform, Bucheon Art, Seoul, South Korea
2019 Letter．Callus．Post-war, Galeri Lorong, Yogyakarta, Indonesia
2019 Kaohsiung Art Award, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2019 Operations<>Calculations: The Universe Between Humans and the World, Centre for Experimental Film, Shenzhen, China
2019 Asian Art Biennial the Stranger from beyond the Mountain and the Sea, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 Sunset on a Dead End the Notorious and Their Inexplicable Modes of Existence, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
2019 JIMEI ARLES 2019, Xiamen, China
2018 Customized Reality: The Lure and Enchantment of the Digital Art, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Return to Pages-The Material Imagination of Artists’ books, Banana Books and Gallery, Shanghai, China
2018 It’s Follows, Enjoy Public Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
2018 The Fourth Age of Man Contemporary Art in Jinguashi, Gold Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2021.11.20 - 2022.05.29