About Me

Caroline Liu is an Albuquerque-based multidisciplinary artist whose work spans various mediums, including painting, drawing, fiber art, and murals. She is known for her exploration of decadent and dark surrealism, intricately weaving together realistic and illustrative motifs to create densely packed magical environments that blur the boundaries between light and dark, real and imagined. Inspired by her own memories, nostalgia, culture, and identity, Liu reflects on the complexities of the human experience, inviting viewers into rich, immersive worlds that spark conversations around grief and joy, love and loss, chaos and meditation. Her work evokes a sense of familiarity and curiosity, inviting viewers to jump into her visual narratives and breathe in the magic around them.

Liu holds a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of New Mexico and has exhibited both nationally and internationally in galleries and museums. Their work includes large-scale mural partnerships with major brands like Meta and Meow Wolf. In 2023, Liu debuted her first West Coast solo exhibition, ‘Stages of Grief,’ at Thinkspace Projects in Los Angeles, and a two-person exhibition, ‘Perhaps, and Nevermore,’ at Pie Projects Contemporary Art in Santa Fe. They recently completed a residency at the prestigious Wassaic Project in New York and participated in a traveling train residency that spanned across Denver to Sacramento hosted by curator Jorge Rojas and Ogden Contemporary Arts.

This traveling residency launched their work into an exciting traveling exhibition that opened in May 2024 at Ogden Contemporary Arts in Ogden, Utah. It will travel to Redline Contemporary Art in Denver in August 2024 and close at 516 Arts in Albuquerque, New Mexico in November 2024. The exhibition, titled “The Other Side of the Tracks,” discusses the impact of the Transcontinental Railroad on marginalized communities both during its construction and in the years that followed. For this exhibition, Liu created an expansive body of work that includes a large-scale painting and several intricate pencil drawings that serve as memorial tributes to the Chinese workers.

You can find this new body of work in the ‘Chinatown of the Sierra Nevada Mountains’ page.