Jen Liu

Jen Liu

Born in 1976, lives and works in New York

I can remember a few things, I think of breakfast, and my mind is blank and A half-heard sound, an indefinable feeling (2022) - installed at group exhibition Mixed Feelings 
I can remember a few things, I think of breakfast, and my mind is blank and A half-heard sound, an indefinable feeling (2022) - installed at group exhibition Mixed Feelings 
Jen Liu - ELECTROPORE at Upstream Gallery, 2022

Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij Exhibition overview, Singapore Biennale 2019 Jen Liu -  ELECTROPORE at Upstream Gallery, 2022

Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij Gold Loop, Handsy Sandwich, 2019. Acrylic ink, acrylic gouache, gesso and gold watercolor on paper. Exhibition overview, Singapore Biennale 2019 The Pink Detachment: Principle of Secure Infrastructure, 2016. Acrylic ink, acrylic gouache, gesso and gold watercolor on paper, 130 x 84 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Jen Liu, PINK SLIME CAESAR SHIFT (2018). Exhibition view. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Jen Liu, Pink Slime Caesar Shift, 2018. Single channel 4K video, 24:20 min. As installed in the exhibition PINK SLIME CAESAR SHIFT (2018) at Upstream Gallery. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Jen Liu, Pink Slime Caesar Shift: Alice Foo Was Here, 2018. Acrylic ink, acrylic gouache, and gold acrylic on paper, 183 x 129,5 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Jen Liu, Pink Slime Caesar Shift: Proposal I Chem + Phos Nail Ring: For Xu Xiaoshi Before Death, 2018. Solid brass body and synthetic DNA coated silica particles, contained by solid brass bead. Jen Liu, Pink Slime Caesar Shift: Triple A Chop Chop, 2018. Acrylic ink, acrylic gouache, and gold acrylic on paper, 183 x 129,5 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Jen Liu, Pink Slime Caesar Shift: Eyes Without a Face, 2018. Acrylic ink, acrylic gouache, and gold acrylic on paper, 183 x 129,5 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Jen Liu, Pink Slime Caesar Shift: Octopus Assassin Guggi Edition, 2018. Acrylic ink, acrylic gouache, and gold acrylic on paper, 183 x 129,5 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Jen Liu, PINK SLIME CAESAR SHIFT (2018), exhibition overview. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. The Pink Detachment: Principle of Alignment, 2015. Ink, watercolour, gouache and gesso on paper, 129 x 84 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. The Pink Detachment: Principle of Alignment, 2015. Ink, watercolour, gouache and gesso on paper, 129 x 84 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Division Manager 019 and Stand, 2014. Ink and gesso on paper, 202 x 129,5 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Division Manager Catalogue 021 - 027, 2014. Ink and gesso on paper, 202 x 129,5 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Division Managers 010, 011 and 012, 2014. Ink and gesso on paper, 132 x 152,5 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Division Managers 013, 014 and Schematic, 2014. Ink and gesso on paper, 132 x 152,5 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Division Manager 003, 2013. Ink and gesso on paper, 133 x 83,5 cm. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Machinist's Lament, 2014 (installation shot). HD video, 17:21'. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Safety First, 2013 (installation shot). HD video, 15:20'. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij. Division Manager 002, 2013. Ink and gesso on paper, 130 x 87 cm. "Public Offering", 2013, bricks, balloons. Installation at the Lloyd Hotel Amsterdam. Photo: Gert Jan van Rooij 'Wealth Management: Cockatiel', 2013, ink and gesso on paper. 14.25 x 21 inch. 'Wealth Management: Willie', 2013, ink and gesso on paper. 14.25 x 21 inch. 'Wealth Management: Aaron', 2013. Pencil with white chalk on paper, 35 x 53 cm. 'Orestes and Electra', 2012, ink on paper, 92 x 55 in. 'Us vs. Them', 2012, ink on paper, 53 x 53 in. 'Six Colorful Tales: From The Emotional Spectrum (Women)', 2011, 
Digital video, 17 min 16 sec. 'Fugue State: La Mode', 2010, watercolor and ink on paper, 53 x 67 in. 'Fugue State: All Together Now', 2010, watercolor and ink on paper. 53 x 57 in. 'C/D', watercolor on paper, 175 x 133 cm. 'Drastic Measures Chart', 2008, ink, watercolor and collage on paper. 34 x 37 inch. 'Control for Enforcement', 2008, ink and watercolor on paper with .22 and .44 shotgun bullet holes., 53 x 33 inch. 'Proposal nr. 1: Bomb them all', 2008, watercolor and ink on paper, 173 x 270 cm. 'Untitled', 2007, watercolor and ink on paper, 67 x 57 cm (serie of 9 pieces) The Brethren of Stone: 'Memento Mori Ex', 2007, 135 x 135 cm The Brethren of Stone: 'Sloth', 2007, 133 x 135 cm 'The Brethren of the Stone: Vista Ex Machina', 2007, watercolor and ink on paper, 134 x 290 cm. 'The Brethren of Stone: Eliasson Dragon', 2007, watercolor and ink on paper, 134 x 135 cm. 'The Brethren of the Stone: (True Force) All the Kings of Men cannot put it back together again', 2007, watercolor and ink on paper, 62,5 x 62,5 cm 'The Brethren of the Stone: Inside the Rock', 2006, watercolor and ink on paper, 105 x 107 cm. 'The Brethren of the Stone: Contingency Chart', 2006, watercolor and ink on paper, 132 x 126 cm. 'The Brethren of Stone: On Vain the Net is Spread in Sight of the Bird', 2006, watercolor and ink on paper, 105 x 106,5 cm 'The Brethren of the Stone: Hear All, See All, Say Nowt, Tak'all, Keep All, Gie Not, And if Tha Ever Does Owt for Nowt Do It for Thysen', 2006, watercolor and ink on paper, 105 x 106,5 cm. 'The Brethren of the Stone: It Is Too Late to Shut the Stable-Door After the Horse Has Bolted', 2006, watercolor and ink on paper, 105 x 106,5 cm. 'Still Nodding Night - Mad Naked Summer Night', 2005, watercolor, ink and colored pencil on paper, 276 x 145 cm. 'Winter is icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm!Sing: Goddamm', 2005, watercolor, ink and colored pencil on paper, 276 x 145 cm 'Was It The Ghost Of Autumn In That Smell Of Underground, Or God's Blank Heart Grown Kind, That Sent A Happy Dream To Him In Hell?', 2005, watercolor, ink and colored pencil on paper, 276 x 145 cm. 'LAALAL: Diamonds of the Earth', 2005, watercolor, ink and colored pencil on paper, 105 x 47 cm. Still from the video 'Soldiers of Light', 2005 "2304 Is A Beer Drinking Year", 2004, karaoke video, 5:55 min
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Jen Liu
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Biography

Jen Liu is a visual artist based in New York, working in video, choreographic performance, biomaterial, and painting to explore topics of national identity, gendered economies, neoliberal industrial labor, and the re-motivating of archival artifacts.  Problem-solving methods are applied to complex social issues, then permitted to progress to their logical conclusions, create speculative narratives seemingly beyond reason – revealing elements of false consciousness and the limitations of existing solutions. Historical materialism across cultural types is embodied in everyday administrative and industry texts, while props, costumes, and animation take tropes to their ridiculous extreme.  

She is a 2019 recipient of the Creative Capital Award, 2018 LACMA Art + Technology Lab grant, and 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship in Film/Video, 2017 NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship in Digital/Electronic Art.  She has presented work at The Whitney Museum, MoMA, and The New Museum, New York; Royal Academy and ICA in London; Kunsthaus Zurich; Kunsthalle Wien; the Aspen Museum of Art; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; MUSAC, Leon; as well as the 2014 Shanghai Biennale and UCCA Beijing.  She has received multiple grants and residencies, including Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany; Sommerakademie, Bern, Switzerland; de ateliers, Amsterdam, NL; and the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, among others. In 2016 she was a resident artist at Para Site in Hong Kong and LMCC Process Space on Roosevelt Island, in 2018-19 she was a resident artist at Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, and in 2019 she will be a Swatch Artist in Residence in Shanghai.

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Exhibitions

Taipei Biennial "Small World"

18 Nov '23 - 24 Mar '24

Mixed Feelings

1 Jul - 5 Aug '23

ELECTROPORE

12 May - 2 Jul '22

Gold Loop (Triad)

11 Jun - 25 Jul '20

PINK SLIME CAESAR SHIFT: GOLD EDITION,

22 Nov '19 - 22 Mar '20

Modern Mondays: Jen Liu

22 Apr - 22 Apr '19

GOLD

18 May - 18 Jun '19

Migration Narratives

22 Nov - 31 Dec '19

Trouble in Paradise

7 Feb - 26 May '19

Feast & Famine

28 Mar - 14 Dec '19

PINK SLIME CAESAR SHIFT

1 Sep - 29 Sep '18

Meeting the Universe Halfway

3 Mar - 3 Jun '18

Berlinale 2018

14 Feb - 25 Feb '18

NEW/NOW

27 Jan - 3 Mar '18

The Visible Hand

7 Jan - 15 Feb '17

Jen Liu: The Pink Detachment

16 Aug - 27 Aug '16

We Are Not Things

8 Jan - 14 Feb '16

TRANSFORMER

3 Oct - 14 Nov '15

The Managers

18 Oct - 21 Nov '14

10th Shanghai Biennale

22 Nov '14 - 31 Mar '15

A Decade Upstream

30 Nov - 19 Dec '13

Cinema

5 Jun - 16 Jul '10

Folkert de Jong and Jen Liu

1 May '04 - 6 Jun '06

The Last Four Seasons

15 Oct - 19 Nov '05

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