Ani Liu is an internationally exhibiting research-based artist working at the intersection of art & technoscience.
Integrating emerging technologies with cultural reflection and social change, Ani’s most recent work examines the biopolitics of reproduction, labor, care work and motherhood.
Ani's work has been exhibited internationally, at the Venice Biennale, Milan Triennale, Ars Electronica, the Queens Museum Biennial, MIT Museum, MIT Media Lab, Mana Contemporary, Harvard University, and Shenzhen Design Society.
Ani is the winner of numerous awards including the Princeton Arts Fellowship, the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship, the Virginia Groot Foundation Fellowship, the S&R Washington Prize, Prix Ars Electronica, the YouFab Global Creative Awards, the Biological Art & Design Award, Triangle Arts Residency.
Ani’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Art in America, Artnet News, the Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, and her solo show in Ecologies of Care was named as a best of 2022 highlight in Artforum. She has been profiled by Science Friday, National Geographic, PBS, the MIT Tech Review, BOMB Magazine, VICE, WIRED, TED and Gizmodo, amongst many others.
Ani is passionate about integrating multidisciplinary approaches to art making, and is currently an Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. Ani has previously taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Princeton University, Columbia University, and is on critique panels at Harvard, Princeton, Dartmouth, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, NYU, Pratt, Parsons, The New School. Ani has a B.A. from Dartmouth College, a Masters of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Master of Science from MIT Media Lab.
Ani continually seeks to discover the unexpected, through playful experimentation, intuition, and speculative storytelling. Ani’s studio is based in Queens, New York.
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Recent Press:
Recent and Upcoming Exhibitions
Offworlds
Yve Yang Gallery, New York, NY, 2023
Macao International Art Biennale
Macao, Macao, 2023
Chengdu Biennale: Time Gravity
Chengdu Art Museum, Chengdu, China, 2023
To Your Eternity
Today Art Museum, Beijing, China, 2023
Designing Motherhood
Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, 2023
Cosmology
Fosun Foundation, Shanghai, China, 2023
Reproduction Otherwise
Mu Hybrid Artspace, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 2022
Gene Culture
MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA, 2022
Designing Motherhood: Things that Make and Break Our Births
MassArt Museum, Boston, MA, 2022
Unknown Unknowns
Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy, 2022
Ecologies of Care
Solo Show at Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, New York, NY, 2022
Funny Feminisms
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland, 2022
Biotopia
Le Pavillion, Namur, Belgium, 2022
My Body : My Machine
ESC Medien Kunst Labor, Graz, Austria, 2022
THRIVE: A Biodesign Challenge Retrospective
Esther Klein Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 2022
Entangled: bio/media
Chronus Art Center, Shanghai, China, 2022 (forthcoming)
Living with Scents
Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA, 2022
Venice Biennale, Architecture 2021
Venice, Italy, 2021
Pixelated Slaps to the Heart
Solo show, Elijah Wheat Showroom, NADA, Newburg, New York, 2020
Bio Art & Design Exhibition 2020
MU Hybrid Arthouse, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 2020
HYPERTOPIA
Gallery STATESTUDIO, Berlin, Germany, 2020
UNREAL
Science Gallery Rotterdam
Rotterdam, the Netherlands, 2020
Nature Morte - Nature Vivante
Centre d’innovation et de design au Grand-Hornu, Boussu, Belgium 2019
Human Machine: Festival of the Impossible
Chandran Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2019
Living Life: DaVinci Creative Festival
Seoul ArtSpace Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea 2019
Hedonism
MOD Gallery, Adelaide, Australia 2019
Polemica!
Kudan House, Tokyo, Japan 2019
Queens Museum Biennial
Queens Museum, Queens, NY 2018
ReShape: Mutating Systems, Bodies and Perspectives
MU Artspace, Eindhoven, the Netherlands 2018
Craft: The Reset
Shenzhen Design Society
Shenzhen, China 2018
A Glitch in the Stars
Ars Electronica
with MIT Space Initiative
Linz, Austria 2018
BioDesign: From Inspiration to Integration
RISD Nature Lab
curated by William Meyers
Providence, RI 2018
BioDesign Here Now
Open Cell
Curated by Helen Steiner
London, UK 2018
Please Touch: Body Boundaries
Mana Contemporary
Jersey City, NJ, 2018
Minding the Digital
Shenzhen Design Society
Shenzhen, China, 2017-2018
Mirror Mirror
Paul Robeson Gallery at Rutgers
Newark, NJ, 2018 - 2019
Boston Center for the Arts (Solo Show)
Laboratory of Longings: The Experiments of Ani Liu
Mills Gallery, Boston Center for Arts
Boston, MA, 2018
La Factoría Cultural
Mind Controlled Spermatazoa
Avilés, Spain, 2018
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Summer Event: Hacking Perceptual Affect with the Hot Milks Foundation Collaborative participatory installation
Boston, MA, 2017
Open Gallery
Body Politic
Boston, MA, 2017
Wiesner Gallery
Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize Exhibition
Boston, MA, 2017
Boston Museum of Fine Arts
MFA NOW series: Primordial Spoof with MIT's Hacking Arts
Collaborative participatory installation
Boston, MA, 2017
Asian Museum of Art
TAKEOVER series with The Perennial
San Francisco, CA, 2016
Paper Curiosities
Wiesner Gallery
Cambridge, MA, 2016
Grounded Visionaries
Exploring Artful Technology
Harvard Graduate School of Design
Cambridge, MA, 2014
SciEx Film Festival
MIT Museum
Cambridge, MA, 2014
Cultural Prosthetics
Solo Show, 40 Kirkland Gallery
Cambridge, MA, 2014
Juried Show, Emerging Artists
ISE Cultural Foundation
New York, NY, 2009
Between You and Me
Solo Show, Barrows Rotunda
Hopkins Center
Hanover, NH, 2009
Invitational Show, Emerging Artists
New Hampshire Arts Association Gallery
Fall 2008
A Melon Strolling on Two Tendrils
AREA
Spring 2007
Hanover, NH
Awards+
Honors
S+T+ARTS Prize
Nomination. Awarded for Innovation at the nexus of Science, Technology, and the ARTS for the video game Shapes and Ladders. 2021
New York Foundation for the Arts Award
Awarded in Digital/ Electronic Arts. 2020
Virginia A. Groot Foundation Grant, 1st Place
Awarded to artists who have exceptional talent and demonstrated ability in ceramic sculpture or sculpture. 2020
Princeton Arts Fellowship
Awarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice 2019-2021
Artists Alliance LES Studio Program
Awarded artist receive a fully-funded studio space to produce new work and make use of resources needed to support their creative practice. 2020
Washington Award in the Arts, S&R Foundation
The Washington Award has recognized talented artists in the fields of, music, dance and visual arts especially those who contribute to international cultural collaboration. 2019
YouFab Global Creative Awards, 1st Place
Award for artworks that acutely question the current state of affairs and present alternatives to the status quo. 2018
Biological Art & Design Award
Winner of an international competition for €25,000 to complete a new work in collaboration with scientists. Award includes an exhibition in the Netherlands. 2018
The Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts, 1st Prize
This award is presented annually to MIT students who have demonstrated excellence in a body of artistic work. The award is received at the Institute Awards Convocation and includes an exhibition at the Wiesner Gallery. 2017
MIT Arts Scholar
Fostering an active community of MIT students with an exceptional interest in the arts. The community’s resultant role is that of an arts leadership group, cultivated through events and mentorship. 2017-2018
International Genetically Engineered Machine Competition (iGEM)
The iGEM Competition is a competition in Synthetic Biology, where students work together to solve real-world challenges by building genetically engineered biological systems with standard, interchangeable parts. My team, EMW StreetBio, won honorable mention for our project, BiotaBeats. 2016
Wellington and Irene Loh Fund Graduate Fellowship
Nomination on behalf of MIT Media Lab, 2016
Alfred K. Priest Fellowship
Awarded to individuals who have demonstrated unusual promise, enabling them to study in any graduate program at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
2010-2013
Wolfenden Fine Arts Prize
Awarded to two graduating students for excellence in the Arts
2008
Class of 1960 Office of Residential
Life Art Acquisition Award
Awarded to graduating students whose art is purchased into the permanent collection of Dartmouth College.
2008
Robert Dance Arts Initiative Award
A proposal-based award that provides monetary grant towards completing an installation.
2007
Melissa Brown Hurlock-Hobson Award
Awarded to two sophomores are Dartmouth College annually who show exceptional promise in the Arts.
2006
Education
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT Media Lab 2017
Master of Science, 5.0/5.0 GPA
Harvard University
Graduate School of Design, 2014
Master of Architecture, Thesis Distinction
Dartmouth College
B.A., High Honors, 2008
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