Beili Liu web: beililiu.com 2405 Stevens Cove Austin TX 78723 512 629 2538 [email protected]

Degrees

2003 University of , Ann Arbor MFA Mixed Media 2001 University of Tennessee, Knoxville BA, Magna Cum Laude Graphic Design 1994 University, Assoc. BA Chinese Literature and Communication

Teaching Experience

2011- Present Associate Professor, College of Fine Arts, University of , Austin 2008-2011 Assistant Professor, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas, Austin 2005-2008 Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Eastern Michigan University 2003-2005 Adjunct Assistant Professor, School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Selected Solo Exhibitions 2014 Beili Liu Solo Exhibition, Art Museum of South East Texas (forthcoming) Beili Liu Solo Exhibition, University of Hawaii (forthcoming) 2013 Beili Liu Solo Exhibition, Courtyard Gallery, University of Texas at Austin (forthcoming) Amass, Beili Liu Solo Exhibition, University Gallery, Texas State University, San Marcos 2012 Rise and Fall, Hua Gallery, London, UK Between Wind and Water, Vessel Gallery, Oakland, CA 2011 Installationen & Wandarbeiten, Galerie An Der Pinakothek Der Moderne in Munich, Recall, Hå gamle prestegard, Norwegian National Art and Culture Center, Drawn, Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln The Mending Project, Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin TX Extent, Form/Space Atelier, Seattle, WA 2010 Fray, Asia Unlimited Gallery, Forum für Internationalen Kulturaustausch, , Germany half empty . half full, Nordisk Kunst Plattform Gallery, Brusand, Norway One, Another, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, NY 2009 Mapping Memories, Beili Liu and Takafumi Ide, (two person exhibition), Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY Bound, d berman Gallery, Austin, TX In Between, 之间， Elisabeth de Brabant Gallery Shanghai, China Three Thousand Troubled Threads, Tarryn Teresa Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Miasma, Three Walls Gallery, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX 2008 LURE / 惑, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA Beili Liu: LURE, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI 2006 Recall (shadow), Gallery One, Ann Arbor, MI Recall (barn), A site-specific installation, Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA Aline, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI 2005 Breadth, A site-specific installation, Lloyd Hall Scholars Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2004 The little House Stands on the Prairie, A site-specific installation, Art Farm, NE 2003 In-prints—Recent 2-D work by Beili Liu, Center for the Education of Women, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Fixtures, in collaboration with Kendall Babl, The Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2002 Wayfinding, Michigan Guild Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI Solid State, Warren Robbins Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI

Selected Group Exhibitions 2013 POPIERUKAS 2013, Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas, Artifact, Tiny Park Gallery, Austin TX Crystal Bash, Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin TX 2012 POST LINEAR, Shawn Camp, Beili Liu, and Sandra Pratt. Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, TX Women to Watch, Fiber Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Wasington, D.C. (forthcoming) From Lausanne To Beijing, 7th International Fiber Art Biennale, Nantong, China (forthcoming) Art Week, Beili Liu: “Der rote Raum”, Emporio Quarter, Hamburg, Germany Texas Draws II, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX 2011 Across the Divide, Crossman Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater Kaunas Biennial TEXTILE 11, National Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania Obsessive Worlds, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX The Mona Lisa Project, Austin Museum of Art, and Grand Rapids Museum of Art 2010 Combined, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin ArtPrize Exhibition, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI Nature/Culture, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY Unraveling Tradition, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM Mind, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan By A Thread, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, CA 2009 IT IS BEAUTIFUL HERE, Granary Gallery, Fiskars, Fall Faculty Exhibition, Creative Research Lab, University of Texas at Austin IF/ELSE, Industrial Project, Detroit, MI A Strange Land, Creative Research Lab, Austin, TX The Storm Show, Work Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI 2008 San Francisco International Arts Festival, San Francisco, CA 11th Annual United States of Asian America Festival, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA Ying-Inspired by Chinese art ad History, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, CA Aging with Attitude, Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2007 Crisis, Detroit Industrial Project, MI Earth World, Bu-Con, Russell Industrial Center, Detroit, MI Turning Point, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI Transparent, Granary Gallery, Onoma foundation of Finland, Fiskars, Finland in.stal.la.tion, Anton Art Center, Mount Clements, MI 2006 12+12, Washington Street Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI Minimal and Maximum, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI Just a squirrel, trying to find a nut, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield, MI Adam and Eve, Holland Arts Council, MI, Creative Arts Center, Pontiac, MI, Riverside Arts Center, Ypsilanti, MI 2005 Collaborators’ 2, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI The Nature of Paper, Woman Made Gallery, , IL Plexus, 4731 Gallery, Detroit, MI 2004 Art Harvest, Art Farm, Marquette, NE 42nd Annual Ann Arbor Film Festival installations, Historical Michigan Theater, Ann Arbor, MI 2003 Sound, Image, Story, Media Union Art Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI MFA Thesis: Above, Below, J. P. Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2002 A Room of Your Own, Michigan Guild Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI Works in Progress: Spiral, J. P. Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Earplay, Media Union, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Individual’s Culture, Warren Robbins Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Selected Awards and Prizes 2013 Austin Critics Table Award: Out Standing Works of Art: Installation Lead visual artist, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artistic Innovation And Collaboration Grant, Grant recipient: Center of Women and Their Work, Austin TX 2012 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Texas System 2011 Walter and Gina Ducloux Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin Distinction Award, Kaunas Biennale, TEXTILE 11, Kaunas Lithuania Austin Critics Table Award: Outstanding Artist Austin Critics Table Award: Out Standing Works of Art: Installation 2010 3rd Prize, ArtPRIZE 2010, Grand Rapids, MI Austin Critics Table Awards— Outstanding Solo Exhibition, Bound, D Berman Gallery 2009 Artist of the Year Award, 3D Medium, Austin Museum of Art and Austin Visual Arts Association Artist Residency Fellowship, Fundación Valparaíso, 2008 Certificate of Honor, San Francisco Major’s award City of San Jose San Jose Commendation, presented by Kensen Chu, Council member Ronald Colins Distinguished Faculty Award, Eastern Michigan University Josephine Nevins Keal Fellowship, Eastern Michigan University 2007 Artist Residency Fellowship, Onoma Foundation Fiskars Artist Residency, Finland Artistic Recognition Award, Eastern Michigan University World College Travel Grant Best of Show—75th Anniversary All-Media Exhibition, Detroit Artist Market 2006 Artist Residency Fellowship, Djerassi Foundation, CA Efellows Grant Award, Eastern Michigan University Josephine Nevins Keal Fellowship, Eastern Michigan University 2004 Artist Residency Fellowship, Art Farm Artist residency, NE 2002 Barbour Scholarship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor Elsie Choy Lee Scholarship, Center for the Education of Women, University of Michigan, MI 2001 Best of Show Award 54th Annual School of Art Competition, University of Tennessee, Knoxville 2000 First Prize, 2-D Exhibition Competition, Union Center, University of Tennessee, Knoxville

Selected Press and Reviews 2013 Nothing's Obscure, Wayne, Alan Brenner, 05.09.13, Austin Chronicle 'Amass' at Texas State highlights the singular, temporal art of Beili Liu, Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, 02.23.13, Austin American Statesman The Mending Project, 03.14.13, iGNANT, Berlin, Germany, 03.14.13, 123inspriation Piercing Images of a Sharp Mind, interview, February-March, issue 12, Curve Magazine, Beirut, Lebanon 2012 Noch eine Fontäne an der Alster, Wolf Jahn, 06.01.12, Hamburg Abendblatt Beili Liu - Vessel Gallery, DeWitt Cheng, April/May 2012, Artillery Magazine Playful art dominates new UT exhibit, Luke Quinton, 02.15.12, Austin American Statesman Traces and Trajectories at Vessel Gallery, DeWitt Cheng, 02.01.12 East Bay Express Beili Liu, “Between Wind and Water” at Vessel Gallery, 01.11.12, Oakland Art Beat Profound Daily/Featured Artist, Case da Abitare居 Design Magazine, Beijing, China 2011 Step into Obsessive Worlds, Steve Junious, 09.22.11, Beaumont Enterprise Chinese Artist Beili Liu’s Mending Project, 雅昌艺术网／Arton.net, China and Taiwan News Exhibition cultivating stillness and uncertainty, 06.30.11, Stavenger Aftenblad, Norway Inspired by the Homeland, Eli Naesheim, 06.11.11, Stavenger Aftenblad, Norway “Fresh Art”, Rita Eritsland, 06.10 11, Jærbladet, Norway Recall, virtualwallworld, Stavanger, Norway Suspenseful, Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, 03.14.11, Austin American Statesman Flow of Energy—Beili Liu, 03.11,11, Robert Faires, Austin Chronicle An Artist Bridging Cultural Differences, Marilyn McCray, March 2011, Austin Women Magazine Beili Liu: The Mending Project preview, American Craft Magazine Beili Liu at Form/Space Atelier, Adrianna Grant, April 2011, Visual Art Source, Seattle Featured Visual Artist: Beili Liu, 02.27.11, The Monarch Review, Seattle 2010 Art Now, Abby Chen, ArtChina 艺术当代Magazine Michigan Artist Wins Top ArtPrize Award, 10.8.10, The Associated Press, ABC News Not just an eyeful, 10.4.10, Brian J. Bowe, The Rapidian "Inn i kunstnen”, Sigrun Hodne, 06.09.2010, Stavanger Aftenblad, Norway From Berlin to Brusand, John Pertter Nordbo, 05.14.2010, Jærbladet, Norway Threads Bared, Jane Prybyz, 04.06.2010, ArtShrift San Jose Ties That Bind, Colin Dabkowski, 01.22.2010, The Buffalo News “By A Thread”, 01.12.2010, Design Taxi, The global creative network 2009 Beili Liu, Top 10 Exhibitions in Shanghai 2009, Chris Moore, Saatchi Online Review, UK East is bound to West, Jeanne Claire van Ryzin, 09.27.2009, Austin American Statesman A Needle and A Thread，杜方舒, September, The Bund Culture, Shanghai, China Spirits Summoned for artist’s abstract discourse, Zhang Kun, 08.22.09, China Daily The Beauty is in the Making，轶城/Charles, September, iLOOK Monitor, Shanghai/Hongkong In Between: Beili Liu, 08.15.2009, Yishu, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art “Red Thread Connection”, Merja Ilpala-Klemm, 05.15.2009, Turun Sanomat, Finland The Beauty in A Sting, 05.09. 2009, HBL, Hufvudstadsbladet, Finland Seed the Language, 05.09.2009, Västra Nyland, Finland Beili Liu at Tarryn Teresa Gallery, Los Angles, Janet Koplos, April, Art in America “Now Art, For Real”, Sarah Fisch, 03.10.2009, San Antonio Current Beili Liu at Three Walls, Wendy Atwell, Might be Good, a contemporary art e-journal The Wafting Bouquet of Artistic License, Sandra Vista, February, ArtSlant Los Angeles Three Thousand Troubled Threads, Steven Irvin, 02.03.2009, Buzzine, Los Angeles 2008 Don’t Miss, Featured Exhibition “Lure”, San Francisco Chronicle Legend made visible, Janos Gereben, 05.20.2008, San Francisco Examiner Beili Liu Explores the Ties that Bind, DeWitt Cheng, 05.18.2008, ArtSlant San Francisco Beili Liu Lures Audience with Red String, Traci Vogel, 05.14.2008, San Francisco Weekly Beili Liu’s Lure on view at Chinese Culture Center, 05.08.2008, World Journal Daily News Change Dynasty, Maureen Davidson, 04.23.2008, Metro Santa Cruz, CA Exhibit Opening UICA, Paul Kraus, 04.01.2008, Revue, Grand Rapids, MI Great Inspirations, Christa Martin, 03.12.2008, Good Times Santa Cruz, CA 2007 Fiskars summer exhibitions, 05.17.2007, Turun Sanomat, Finland Through the surfaces and structures, 05.25.2007, Helsinki Sanomat, Finland A master of water, William Zilke, 01.18.2007, Heritage Newspapers, Ypsilanti, MI 2006 On Display—Liu at WCC, John Carlos Cantu, 10.08.06, Ann Arbor News Hang On, Beili Liu suspends our pleasure, Nick Sousanis, 01.18.06, Detroit Metro Times Mixed-Media Marvels, John Carlos Cantu, 01.14.06, Ann Arbor News 2005 “Breadth” at U-M, Susan Selasky, 09.27.05, Detroit Free Press Plexus @ 4731, Nick Sousanis, 08.02.05, The Detroiter Rebuilding Memories in Adobe Brick, Janet Miller, 03.20.05, Ann Arbor News 2004 A Path to Her Past, Krystal Overmyer, 08.01.04, The Independent, Grand Island, Nebraska Artist building replica of rural Chinese home, 08.08.04, World Herald, Omaha, NE Artist builds Chinese-style hut, 08.08.04, Lincoln Journal Star, Lincoln, Nebraska 2003 Inventive work involve shifting physical elements, John Carlos Cantu, 11.23.03, Ann Arbor News 2002 Wayfinding through space and time, John Carlos Cantu, 11.23.03, Ann Arbor News