Jen Liu
Jen Liu | |
|---|---|
 Jen Liu talking with the New York Arts Practicum | |
| Born | 1976 (age 47–48) |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Oberlin College, California Institute of the Arts |
| Known for | Visual Art |
| Awards | Creative Capital, Guggenheim Fellowship |
| Website | jenliu |
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]
Education and career[edit]
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]
Works[edit]
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[edit]
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]
Solo exhibitions (selection)[edit]
2020
- Jen Liu + Aleksandra Domanovic, MAK Center for Art + Architecture in collaboration with LACMA, Los Angeles
- Jen Liu, ARIEL Platform for Feminist Art, Copenhagen
- GOLD LOOP, solo commissioned video, curated by Christina Millare, funded by the British Arts Council
2019
- PINK SLIME CAESAR SHIFT: GOLD EDITION, commissioned choreographic performance and installation, curated by Renan Laruan as part of the Singapore Biennale 2019
2018
- PINK SLIME CAESAR SHIFT, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
2017
- The Red Detachment: Bai Wei’s Natural History¬, solo commission by
OK.Video/ruangruppa, Bogor Zoology Museum, Bogor 2016
- Digital Billboard Platform: Jen Liu’s The Pink Detachment, LAXART, Los Angeles
- The Red Detachment of Women: Online, commissioned by Triple Canopy as part of the Standards issue
- Utopia is No Place, Utopia is Process - Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington Vermong
- The Pink Detachment, 66th Berlinale, Berlin
2015
- The Red Detachment of Women: Performance for 6 Dancers, co- commissioned by Triple Canopy and The Whitney Museum, Whitney Museum, New York
References[edit]
- ^ a b c "John Simon Guggenheim Foundation | Jen Liu". Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ^ "Christopher Miles on Jen Liu". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ^ a b Weinstein, Matthew (2016-03-10). "Machine Dreams and Painting's Extremes: Matthew Weinstein on Jonathan Lasker and Jen Liu". ARTnews. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ^ a b Greenberger, Alex (2019-01-15). "Creative Capital Names Winners of 2019 Awards". ARTnews. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ^ "Class Notes" (PDF). Oberlin Alumni Magazine. Spring 2015.
- ^ "Jen Liu Awarded 2018 Art+Technology Lab Grant From LACMA". 24700. 9 July 2018. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
- ^ "Jen Liu | Bennington College". www.bennington.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ^ "Jen Liu". upstreamgallery.nl. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ^ "Premiere: The Pink Detachment by Jen Liu". upstreamgallery.nl. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ^ "LACMA Names 2018 Art+Technology Lab Awardees". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ^ a b "PINK SLIME CAESAR SHIFT - Jen Liu". upstreamgallery.nl. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ^ "NYFA Announces 2017 Fellows". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ^ "LACMA Names 2018 Art+Technology Lab Awardees". www.artforum.com. Retrieved 2019-02-17.
- ^ "Search Detail". www.pkf-imagecollection.org. Retrieved 2019-02-17.