Liu Shiyuan

Liu Shiyuan received her MFA in Photography from the School of Visual Arts, New York in 2012, and BFA from Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing in 2009. Her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions around the world. In 2024 Liu had a major exhibition at Fotografiska in Shanghai; in 2020, Liu had a major solo exhibition entitled Opaque Pollination at the Frost Museum at Florida International University in Miami. In 2015, the YUZ Museum Shanghai held a solo presentation of her monumental photo-based installation As Simple As Clay. Her solo presentation My Paper Knife, Local Futures, Alter-Circuit was also featured in the Asia Contemporary Art Week 2014 in San Francisco. In 2014, she received Honorary AIR Award from Kala Art Institute, San Francisco, and in 2012, the Paula Rhodes Memorial Award, New York. Her solo presentation at Frieze New York 2016 received a special commendation in the inaugural Frame Stand Prize.

Liu’s work has been featured in group exhibitions at key institutions internationally, such as the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing; K11 Art Foundation, Hong Kong; Pino Pascali Foundation Museum, Polignano; Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Whitebox Art Center, New York; Dimensions Variable, Miami; Long Museum, Aurora Museum and Qiao Space, Shanghai; OCT-Contemporary Art Terminal and He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen; and Vermillion Sands, Copenhagen, among others.

In 2017, Liu’s large-scale video installation work The Best is Yet to Come was featured in Cold Night at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, and her installation work This Way or That Way was shown in .COM.CN, an important group exhibition co-hosted by K11 Art Foundation & MOMA PS1 in Hong Kong, curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Peter Eleey. This Way or That Way was featured in a group exhibition titled Welcome to the Jungle at Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 2018 and in the group show Art Patrons at Qiao Space Shanghai in 2018.

Other main group exhibitions include The King and the Mockingbird, Vermillion Sands, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2016; Yinchuan Biennale 2016—For an Image, Faster Than Light, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Ningxia, China, 2016; SHE—International Women Artists Exhibition, Long Museum, Shanghai, China, 2016; Tutorials, Pino Pascali Foundation Museum, Polignano, Italy, 2016; Bentu, Chinese Artists in A Time of Turbulence and Transformation, Foundation Louis Vuitton, Paris, 2016; Unordinary Space, Aurora Museum, Shanghai, 2015; CAFAM Future, Central Academy of Fine Art Museum, Beijing, 2015; Now You See, Whitebox Art Center, New York, 2014; 7th Shenzhen Sculpture Biennale, OCT-Contemporary Art Terminal, Shenzhen, 2012; stillspotting nyc, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, among others.