Pixy Liao
Pixy Liao is an artist born and raised in Shanghai, China who currently resides in Tokyo. She holds an MFA in Photography from the University of Memphis in 2008. Her work, although highly personal, is often witty and humorous. Liao uses her photographs, videos and installations to call into question stereotypical contemporary concepts such as the nature of “the couple,” “the artist,” and the “female experience.”
Liao is a recipient of the NYFA Fellowship in Photography, the Santo Foundation Individual Artist Award, and the Madame Figaro Women Photographers Award, etc. She has been awarded artist residencies at the University of Arts London, Pioneer Works, Light Work, among others.
Selected solo exhibitions include Art Institute of Chicago (2025), Fotografiska in New York/Stockholm/Tallin (2021-2022); Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Canada (2020); the Rencontres d'Arles, France (2019). She has participated in group exhibition that took place at PTT Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan; White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; SCOPE Hannover Biennial, Hannover, Germany amongst many others.
Her work can be found in the collections Art Institute of Chicago, Alexander Tutsek – Stiftung, Franklin Furnace Archive, Møllersamlingen, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Light Work, Syracuse, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO.