Yijun Liao

Yijun Liao, also known as Pixy Liao, is a Chinese artist, living in New York City.

Pixy Liao (Yijun Liao)
"The Woman Who Clicks The Shutter, 2018"
Born
Shanghai, China
NationalityChinese
EducationUniversity of Memphis
Known forPhotography, art
Notable work
Experimental Relationship
AwardsNYFA Fellowship in photography, Santo Foundation Individual Artist Awards, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival Madame Figaro Women Photographers Award, Enfoco New Works Awards Fellowship, LensCulture Exposure Awards, etc

Biography

Liao was born in Shanghai. She currently lives in Brooklyn.[1] Liao received an MFA in photography from the University of Memphis.

She is mostly known for her series Experimental Relationship. The series depicts her with her younger Japanese boyfriend, Moro. The elaborate photography depicted challenges gender norms in regards to media and sexual expression. The boyfriend is often depicted with nudity, but uses censorship and posture in ways that are mainly used by female models and actresses. Her photography attempts to change the way society sees nudity and media through the lens of a whole new perspective.[2][3]

Liao is a recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, Santo Foundation Individual Artist Awards, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival Madame Figaro Women Photographers Award, En Foco's New Works Fellowship and LensCulture Exposure Awards. She has been an artist in residence for University of Arts London, School of Visual Arts RISO Lab, Pioneer Works, Light Work, LMCC, Center for Photography at Woodstock and Camera Club of New York.[4]

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions
  • 2008 Experimental Relationship, Adam Shaw Studio, Memphis, TN
  • 2011 Memphis, Tennessee, Chinese American Art Council, New York City
  • 2013 The Second Story of Two Stories, Kips Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  • 2013 Let's Make Love, the Camera Club of New York, New York City
  • 2015 Experimental Relationship, Circuitous Succession Gallery, Memphis, TN[5]
  • 2016 Some Words are just between Us, curated by Sophia Cai, First Draft Gallery, Sydney, Austra[6][7][8]
  • 2016 Venus As A Boy, LEO XU Projects, Shanghai, China[9][10][11]
  • 2017 Lady and Gentleman, Galleri Vasli Souza, Malmö, Sweden[12]
  • 2018 Pixy Liao, curated by Roussell, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festival, Xiamen, China[13]
  • 2019 Une Relation Expérimentale the Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France[14]
  • 2019 Experimental Relationship Fotografia Europea, Reggio Emilia, Italy[15]
  • 2019 Open Kimono Chambers Fine Art, New York City[16]
  • 2019 Carry the Weight of You Galleri Vasli Souza, Oslo, Norway
  • 2020 Two Heads Stieglitz 19, Antwerp, Belgium
  • 2020 Experimental Relationship (for your eyes only, or maybe mine, too) curated by Henry Lu Centre A, Vancouver, Canada[17]

Group exhibitions

Publications
  • Experimental Relationship Vol.1 2007–2017. Jiazazhi, 2018. ISBN 978-988-14575-7-8. Edition of 500 copies.[29][30]
gollark: Anyway, I have, I think, reasonably strong "no genocide" ethics. But I don't know if, in a situation where everyone seemed implicitly/explicitly okay with helping with genocides, and where I feared that I would be punished if I either didn't help in some way or didn't appear supportive of helping, I would actually stick to this, since I don't think I've ever been in an environment with those sorts of pressures.
gollark: Maybe I should try arbitrarily increasing the confusion via recursion.
gollark: If people are randomly assigned (after initial mental development and such) to an environment where they're much more likely to do bad things, and one where they aren't, then it seems unreasonable to call people who are otherwise the same worse from being in the likely-to-do-bad-things environment.I suppose you could argue that how "good" you are is more about the change in probability between environments/the probability of a given real world environment being one which causes you to do bad things. But we can't check those with current technology.
gollark: I think you can think about it from a "veil of ignorance" angle too.
gollark: As far as I know, most moral standards are in favor of judging people by moral choices. Your environment is not entirely a choice.

References
  1. http://www.lightwork.org/archive/pixy-yijun-liao/
  2. Annie Stevens. "Artist subverts gender norms with clever photography series". Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  3. "Couple's Gender-Bending Photo Series Challenges Our View Of Traditional Relationships". Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  4. http://lenscratch.com/2013/08/yijun-liao-experimental-relationship/
  5. Mark Richens. "Pixy Liao explores gender roles in art, relationships in "Experimental Relationship" at Circuitous". Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  6. Sophia Cai. "Some words are just between us". Retrieved 1 August 2016.
  7. Lachlan Herd. "THE HANGING: SOME WORDS ARE JUST BETWEEN US BY PIXY LIAO". Retrieved 9 August 2016.
  8. Kathleen Linn. "LOCATION, THE FEMALE GAZE AND THE WARMTH OF THE INTERNET". Retrieved 12 August 2016.
  9. Arthur Solway. "Pixy Liao at Leo Xu Projects" (PDF). Retrieved 1 November 2016.
  10. Jiahuan Li. "Yijun Liao, Venus As A Boy". Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  11. Wenqian. "Artist Yijun Liao's first solo show in her hometown". Retrieved 6 October 2016.
  12. Ashleigh Kane. "See men and women exchange roles of sex and power in China". Retrieved 1 March 2017.
  13. "Pixy Liao - Experimental Relationship". Jimei x Arles International Photography Festival. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  14. "6 Photographers to Look Out For at the Arles Festival By Daphné Anglès". www.nytimes.com. Retrieved 2019-07-23.
  15. "Fotografia Europea : Pixy Liao". www.loeildelaphotographie.com. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  16. "Pixy Liao: Open Kimono - Exhibitions - Chambers Fine Art". www.chambersfineart.com. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
  17. "PIXY LIAO'S RADICAL INTIMACY: "EXPERIMENTAL RELATIONSHIP (FOR YOUR EYES ONLY, OR MAYBE MINE, TOO)"". Retrieved 18 June 2020.
  18. "Derby stages top international photographic festival, Format 15". Retrieved 9 December 2015.
  19. Boyi Feng. "Pixy Yijun Liao".
  20. Lara Atallah. "The Real Thing". Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  21. "Juxtapoz: "THE REAL THING" @ FLOWERS GALERY". Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  22. Rebecca Robertson. "PDN: Constructing and Deconstructing Romance". Retrieved 1 February 2016.
  23. Nikki Tripp. "Chinese Artist Challenges Gender Identities through 'Experimental Relationship'". Retrieved 21 April 2016.
  24. Cindy Lisica. "We Chat: A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art". Retrieved 6 July 2017.
  25. Gary Zhexi Zhang. "Critic's Guide: Shanghai". Retrieved 16 August 2016.
  26. "When We Become Us". Capsule Shanghai.
  27. Sarah Cascone. "The Art of NSFW? See Provocative Works of Feminist Erotica From the Museum of Sex". Retrieved 17 June 2017.
  28. KAITLIN CHAN. "HOLY MOSSES". Retrieved 2019. Check date values in: |accessdate= (help)
  29. Jörg Colberg. "Conscientious: Experimental Relationship". Retrieved 3 September 2018.
  30. Olga Yatskevich. "Collector Daily: Pixy Liao, Experimental Relationship Vol 1. (2007-2017)". Retrieved 14 August 2018.
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