Beili Liu

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Born: 1974

Biography:

Beili Liu is a Chinese-born US-based visual artist, born in 1974. She creates large-scale, process-driven sculptural environments that examine themes of migration, cultural memory, materiality, labor, social and environmental concerns. Through unconventional use of commonplace materials and elements such as thread, needle, scissors, feather, salt, wax, and cement, Liu extrapolates complex cultural narratives through a hybrid work form that merges site-responsive installation, sculpture, public art, and performance.

Early Life and Education

Beili Liu was born in a farming village in the Northeast province of Jilin, China. Her parents were among the 16 million sent-down youth during China's Cultural Revolution. After ten years of exile and re-education in the countryside, her family relocated to the southern coastal city of Shenzhen. In 1989, one month before the Tiananmen Square Protests, her family migrated to the southern coastal city of Shenzhen, a major manufacturing center and economic hub bordering Hong Kong. Liu attended Shenzhen University, studying Chinese Literature before immigrating to the US in 1995. She received a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2001 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 2003 as a Barbour Scholar.

Career

Beili Liu has held solo exhibitions at the Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas, Texas, and Galerie An Der Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich, Germany. Her work has been showcased in group exhibitions at 何香凝美术馆 Hexiangning Museum of Art, Shenzhen, China, Artpace, San Antonio, and the New Orleans Museum of Art. Some of her notable works include After All / Mending the Sky, a stunning silk painting on display at the New Orleans Museum of Art. This piece is a prime example of her style, featuring a dramatic landscape with bold brushstrokes and gold leaf accents. Important to note that Liu's work has received support from the National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America Grant for her exhibition at the Art Museum of Southeast Texas. Her public art project Sky Bridge was named Best Public Art Installation by KQED.

• Beili Liu is a 2022-2024 Andrew Carnegie Fellow, representing the first visual artist awarded this humanities and social sciences fellowship in support of scholarship that "addresses important and enduring issues confronting our society."
• Liu received the 2022 Pollock Prize for Creativity and the Brian Wall Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors through the Pollock-Krasner Foundation.
• Liu has been designated the 2018 Texas State Artist in 3D medium by the Texas State Legislature and the Texas Commission on The Arts.

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