CRYSTAL LIU b. 1980

EDUCATION

2005 Art Institute, MFA 2003 Ontario College of Art & Design, A.O.C.A.D.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016 One on One: Solo Exhibitions by Crystal Liu and Qi Yu, Galerie Du Monde, Hong Kong 2015 I always meant to love you, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco Crystal Liu: with perplexity…, San Marco Gallery, Dominican University of California, San Rafael 2011 Don’t Let Me Down, Katzman Kamen Gallery, Toronto, what sparkles…, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco 2010 give us our dream: part two, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto 2009 give us our dream: part one, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco Crystal Liu, Collectors Contemporary, Singapore 2008 100 stories, Hosfelt Gallery, New York 2007 Black Storm, Come, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto Before I Ever Dreamed You, Hosfelt Gallery, New York 2006 Remember When We Used To Dream, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, In The Dead Of Winter, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto 2005 You’re Invited, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco Up In The Air, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012 Semi-Permeable, Hosfelt Galley, New York 2011 Time Flies, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco 2009 The Coldest Winter I Ever Spent Was A Summer in San Francisco, Hosfelt Gallery Tomorrow, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco 2008 And the Dish Ran Away With the Spoon, Collectors Contemporary, Singapore 40th Anniversary Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina Vocabularies of Metaphor: More Stories, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco

Summer Reading, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco 100 stories, Hosfelt Gallery, New York 2007 Nostalgia, Chinese Culture Center, San Francisco Pattern vs. Decoration, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco Drawings: Visions, Surfaces and Beyond, , Santa Clara 2006 Inaugural Show, Hosfelt Gallery, New York Book, Hosfelt Gallery, New York 2005 M Theory, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco The Enchanted Forest, Musee of , San Francisco RGB, TransAmerica Center, San Francisco Landscape Project, Gallery 44, Toronto San Francisco Art Institute MFA Show, Fort Mason, San Francisco In League with Forces of Evil, Kino Lab, Ujazdowskie Castle, Poland Fog Food, De Young Musuem Satellite Space, San Francisco Death By Tea light Part II, Artist Television Access, San Francisco 2004 My House Is Dead, The Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco You Are Here, The Drake Hotel, Toronto Art Books, Walter and McBean Gallery, San Francisco Third Street Hard Knox Fat Famous Dog Patch Show, Swell Gallery, San Francisco VENDART: Site Specific, The Drake Hotel, Toronto 2003 Group Show, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto Debut, Leo Kamen Gallery, Toronto

REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS

Trista Yeung, “Natural Connection”, The Standard, Feb 12, 2016 Lutz, Leora, Crystal Liu:"i always meant to love you" at Hosfelt Gallery, Atd Ltd., July/August 2015, p.22-23 Scope, (www.scope-mag.com), Summer 2011, p. 28., 2011 Dault, Gary Michael, Eerie photographs play like drawings, The Globe and Mail, Feb/2010, p. R15., 2010 EnRoute, March 2009, p. 104-106, 2009 Evangelista, Kristen, Crystal Liu: “Give Us Our Dream: Part One” at Hosfelt Gallery, Art Ltd., Nov/Dec 2009, p. 24 Ryan, Christine, 14 Bay Area Artists We Love Right Now-And Where to See Them, 7x7 San Francisco, November 2008, p.120-122, 2008 Ayers, Robert, Naomie Kremer and Crystal Liu, Artnews, p. 145, March 2007 O-Neil-Butler, Lauren, Critics’ Pick: Crystal Liu, Artforum (online), January 18 2007

Palm, Kristin, Crystal Liu at Hosfelt Gallery, Artweek,, p. 12, March 2007 Kurtz, Katie, Critic’s Choice: You’re Invited, San Francisco Bay Guardian, p. 77, September 28-October 4 2005 Hirschmann, Thomas, Crystal Clear, Now Magazine, January 22- 28, 2004 Hirschmann, Thomas, Shooters Aim, Now Magazine, p. 69, April 24- 30, 2003 Barns Exhibit, Now Magazine, p. 69, October 2-8, 2002

COLLECTIONS

San Francisco Museum Of Modern Art Progressive Art Collection