Bio
Miao Liu (b. 1998, Qingdao) is an emerging visual artist interested in the movement of poetry, frailty, trauma, and affect through bodies and environments.
Formally trained in textile and ceramics, Miao approaches form with a craft sensibility
that seeks out the metaphoric potential of material. She is interested in the convergence
of the personal, historical, and collective in a contemporary project of de-colonial and feminist meaning making.
Available for local projects, sales, and potential employment opportunities.
Say hi below or at larenkiu@gmail.com.
Exhibitions
2023, (solo) Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto
2023, Break it to me Gently, Patel Brown Gallery, Toronto ON
2022, Blueprints, Shoes Off (Pan-Asian) Collective, OCAD University, Toronto ON
2020, now that the artifice is dissolved, Hearth Garage, Toronto ON
2020, Everything Came Back to Me, the abandoned lot at Cunningham, Toronto ON
Professional Affiliations
2023 - Artist Assistant, Akash Inbakumar, Toronto ON
2022 - Workshop Host, Shoes Off Collective, Toronto ON
2022 - Workshop Host, Silverfish Magazine, Toronto ON
2020 - 2023 - Monitor, Plastics Fabrication Studio, OCAD University, Toronto ON
Residencies
2023, Xpace OCADU Graduates Residency, Toronto ON
2022, Metal Studio Summer Resident, Harbourfront Centre for Craft and Design, Toronto ON
2022, Monuments of the Future, International Dialogue on Design and Memory Culture, Goethe Institute and OCADU, Toronto and Berlin
2020, Silverfish Magazine, Artists and Writers Workshop, Toronto ON
Education
2023 - Bachelor of Art, Material Art and Design, OCAD
2016-2018 - Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto
