Jen Liu

Jen Liu (* 1976 Smithtown, New York / USA), studied in Los Angeles at the Californian Institute of the Arts and graduated from a two-year postgraduate studies in De Atelier in Amsterdam. The American artist looks for manifestations of utopian and idealized worlds in the media and popular culture.

Jen Liu's drawings, videos, installations and performances pull together disparate historical and contemporary entities, to create new fictions and unexpected perspectives on the past. She has exhibited internationally, with recent exhibitions at Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam; Aspen Art Museum, Colorado; Kunsthaus Zurich; and Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool; She is currently working towards a 2-person show at On Stellar Rays in the Lower East Side, which will open this fall.

 

http://www.upstreamgallery.nl/jen-liu/

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