base in Baltimore and Taoyuan
Chia Hsiu Liu makes abstract paintings inspired by the architecture and fast pace of the cities she has lived in, especially Taoyuan (Taiwan) and Baltimore. A series of drips become a grid or a building. Things move in and out of nameability. A multitude of small worlds coexist, competing for attention. Transportation is everywhere and moves fast from one zone to the next. Gentle pastels compete with brighter colors activating the surface and yielding a pervasive quality of light and atmosphere that is urgent but optimistic. Systems of order are proposed and contradicted, subject to the flux of experience.
Chia Hsiu Liu Catalog_Name Your Place
Interview with Bold Journey Magazine
Exhibition review of Where the Maps Run Out, written by Patrick Bell
Education
2025 Maryland Institute College of Art - LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting (MFA)
2023 Yuan Ze University - Master of Arts Management (MA)
2021 Yuan Ze University - Bachelor of Art and Design
Exhibitions
2025 The Peale Museum, Baltimore, USA – ’Chromafugue’, LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting Thesis Show ‘25
Atrium Artspace, Baltimore, USA – ’Where The Maps Run Out’, group exhibition
The Ven Art Gallery, Washington, D.C, USA – ’Dialogues of the Diaspora’, group exhibition
2024 The Fox Building, Baltimore, USA – ’Caesura’, LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting fall exhibition ‘24
2023 Fred Lazarus IV Center, Baltimore, USA – ’Conjure’, LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting fall exhibition ‘23
2022 Mazu New Residential Quarter, Taoyuan, Taiwan – ’Transparency and Duality’, solo exhibition
Award
2024 Maryland Institute College of Art – Bunting Award for Graduate Excellence