Caroline Liu

Caroline Liu is a painter, seamstress, and muralist who bridges together two unique perspectives that form her identity. Liu’s work explores her personal experiences as a late diagnosed autistic adult and her tribulations with short-term memory loss as a result of multiple concussions in the last decade. Her paintings and plushies serve as documentation of memories she’d otherwise forget, as well as visual and tactile stimuli that provide her with restorative relief.

By balancing between the two, her work communicates universal narratives that reflect feelings of loss, comfort, confusion, and happiness. These themes are explored through transporting viewers into her own imagined daydreams filled with bright pops of color, textural elements, and refractive light.

Liu holds a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of New Mexico and has exhibited work in galleries all across the Midwest and the Southwest. She has painted murals throughout the Chicagoland Area, as well as for international companies such as Adidas, Vans, and Lululemon. She is an artist in residence alumni at the Chicago Artists Coalition, the Chicago Art Department, and the Hyde Park Art Center. Her work has been published in various publications, including New American Paintings and The Chicago Tribune.

SOLO EXHIBITION
2018
A Hollow Shell of Elastic Skin, Elastic Arts, Chicago, IL

2017
The Year of the Moths, Slate Fine Arts, Chicago, IL

2014
CONCUSSED, Chicago Art Department, Chicago, IL

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2017
Trace Elements, Miishkooki Art Space, Skokie, IL
When Words Fail Us, Chicago Art Department, Chicago, IL

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Forget Me Not, Forgive Me Not, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL
Comfortably Bananas, Vault Gallerie, Chicago, IL

2019
3rd Annual Juried Show, Line Dot Editions, Chicago, IL
Polished, Scout Gallery, Milwaukee, WI

2018
Fugitive Narratives, Kanter McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
Hidden In Plain Sight, All Star Press, Chicago, IL

2017
Of Memory and Forgetfulness, Chicago Artists Coalition, Chicago, IL
Required Reading, Galerie F, Chicago, IL