Liu-Jen

Jen Liu

Staten Island, NY

Jen Liu is a visual artist working in video, painting, biomaterial, sculpture, and performance, on topics of national identity, labor economy, and the reinterpretation of archival artifacts.  Race and gender anxieties are revealed in seemingly neutral academic and industrial texts, while images, props, costumes, and animation take tropes to their extreme.

Liu has presented work at The Whitney Museum, The New Museum, and Issue Project Room in New York; Royal Academy and ICA in London; Kunsthaus Zurich; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle Wien; Aspen Museum of Art; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; the 2014 Shanghai Biennale; and the 2018 Berlinale Forum Expanded Edition, among others. She received the Guggenheim Fellowship in Film/Video, and the NYFA/NYSCA Gregory Millard Fellowship in Digital/Electronic Media. She has received multiple grants and residencies including Sommerakademie, Bern; de ateliers, Amsterdam; Para Site, Hong Kong; the Pollock-Krasner Foundation; and Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, New York. She is a full-time video faculty at Bennington College.


Events

Pink Slime Caesar Shift


Jen Liu is a visual artist working in video, painting, biomaterial, sculpture, and performance, on topics of national identity, labor economy, and the reinterpretation of archival artifacts.

Artist Bio

Pink Slime Caesar Shift is a project that proposes to alter the genetic material of cow cells in order to carry secret messages of labor activism for female factory workers in South China, taking the form of genetic engineering of cow cells, 3D-printer prototyped small-cast sculpture, and video/3D animation.

Pink Slime Caesar Shift culminated in the exhibition Jen Liu: I Am Cloud at Blindspot Gallery in Hong Kong from September 17 to November 2, 2024.


Award Year
2019
Status

Completed