Jen Liu

Jen Liu (born 1976) is an American visual artist.[1][2] She works with video, performance, and painting and creates pieces about labor, economy and national identity.[3] She was awarded a Guggenheim and a Creative Capital award.[1][4]

Jen Liu
Jen Liu talking with the New York Arts Practicum
Born1976 (age 44–45)
NationalityAmerican
EducationOberlin College, California Institute of the Arts
Known forVisual Art
AwardsCreative Capital, Guggenheim Fellowship
Websitejenliu.info

Career

She received a BA from Oberlin College,[5] and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts,[6] and is a full-time faculty member at Bennington College.[7] Liu is represented by Upstream Gallery.[8]

Liu's work explore labor and gender.[3] Her 2016 video, The Pink Detachment, is a reinterpretation of The Red Detachment of Women (1970), a Model Opera ballet from China’s Cultural Revolution.[9] It premiered at the Berlinale Forum Expanded exhibition.

Her Pink Slime Caesar Shift series contains videos and animations that tell a story of female factory workers in South China altering the DNA of cow cells to transmit messages.[10][11] Liu was awarded grants for this series from Creative Capital, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. It was featured in a solo exhibition at Upstream Gallery.[11]

Awards

Liu has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship (2017),[1] NYFA Fellowship,[12] Los Angeles County Museum of Art Art+Technology Award (2018),[13] a Creative Capital Award (2019),[4] and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant.[14]

References
  1. "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Jen Liu". Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  2. "Christopher Miles on Jen Liu". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  3. Weinstein, Matthew (2016-03-10). "Machine Dreams and Painting's Extremes: Matthew Weinstein on Jonathan Lasker and Jen Liu". ARTnews. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  4. Greenberger, Alex (2019-01-15). "Creative Capital Names Winners of 2019 Awards". ARTnews. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  5. "Class Notes" (PDF). Oberlin Alumni Magazine. Spring 2015.
  6. "Jen Liu Awarded 2018 Art+Technology Lab Grant From LACMA". 24700. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  7. "Jen Liu | Bennington College". www.bennington.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  8. "Jen Liu". upstreamgallery.nl. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  9. "Premiere: The Pink Detachment by Jen Liu". upstreamgallery.nl. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  10. "LACMA Names 2018 Art+Technology Lab Awardees". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  11. "PINK SLIME CAESAR SHIFT - Jen Liu". upstreamgallery.nl. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  12. "NYFA Announces 2017 Fellows". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  13. "LACMA Names 2018 Art+Technology Lab Awardees". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
  14. "Search Detail". www.pkf-imagecollection.org. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
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