Education: Art Center of Design, Pasadena, CA : BFA in Illustration (Honors)
Telling stories and creating worlds where anything and everything can happen is Liu’s forte. Tackling ideas that strike fear in most and rendering them affable and accessible, Liu creates art that allows viewers to feel as though they have stepped into her dream world. Liu's visions of childhood reflect a reality in which things often go awry, but in the most playful and colorful way. She fills her paintings with visual puns, and even double-puns. A wash in rainbow hues and populated with a veritable circus of cute (and freaky) creatures, her candy-colored paintings are at once strangely familiar, and oddly jarring in their often audacious and mysterious subject matter. Liu is also an art teacher that has spent nearly 20 years teaching her students how to find their voice to tell their stories.
Exhibitions:
2022 Giant Robot GR2, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (January): “Convergence II” (6 man show)
2022 Leanna Lin’s Wonderland, Los Angeles (November): Small Wonders 3 Art Show, “Celebrations around the World”
2022 Giant Robot GR2, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (August): 8”x8”
2022 WOWXWOW (June): Monochromagic 5
2022 Giant Robot Store, Santa Monica Los Angeles (May): Fruits & Veggies Show 2: Art You Should Almost Eat
2022 Nucleus, Portland, Oregon (May): SALUT! Group Show
2022 Giant Robot GR2, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (April): Rakugaki Group Exhibition 4
2022 Giant Robot Store, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (April): Land and Sea Show
2022 Giant Robot Store, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (March): Doggo Show
2022 Giant Robot Store: Santa Monica, Los Angeles (Jan): Neko Show
2021 Giant Robot Store, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (May): Fruits & Veggies: Art You Should Almost Eat
2021 Giant Robot GR2, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (March): Rakugaki Group Exhibition 3
2020 Giant Robot Store, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (September): The Plant Show
2020 Giant Robot GR2, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (April): Rakugaki Group Exhibition 2
2020 WOWXWOW (March): Ghosts Aflame
2019 Giant Robot GR2, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (Dec): Post it Show 15
2019 Giant Robot GR2, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (April): The Reality of Illusions (4 Man Show)
2019 Cukui, San Jose, San Francisco (April): The Flight of the Spirits
2019 Giant Robot GR2, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (January): Fast Forward
2018 WOWXWOW (November): Nocturnal Bloom
2018 Giant Robot GR2, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (November): Post it Show 14
2018 WOWXWOW (June): WOW2 (VolumeII)
2018 WOWXWOW (April): Microvisions
2018 Giant Robot, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (March): Year of the Dog
2017 Giant Robot, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (December): Pop Totoro Mash Up
2017 Giant Robot GR2, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (December): Post it Show 13
2017 Giant Robot, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (September): Fruit Salad Show
2016 Giant Robot GR2, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (December): Post it Show 12
2016 Giant Robot GR2, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (January): Year of the Monkey Show
2015 Giant Robot GR2, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (December): Post it Show 11
2015 Leanna Lin's Wonderland Gallery, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles (November): Dreams
2015 Leanna Lin's Wonderland Gallery, Eagle Rock, Los Angeles (August): The Small Adventures Show (Maurice Sendak and Shel Siverstein)
2014 Giant Robot GR2, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (December): Post it Show 10
2014 Swoon Gallery, Leanne Lin's Wonderland Gallery (December): Get the Lead Out II
2014 Giant Robot GR2, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (October): The World is Watching (6 Man Show)
2014 Giant Robot GR2, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (June): Uglycon-Ice Bat
2014 Flower Pepper Gallery, Pasadena (June): Pandamonium Show
2014 Flower Pepper Gallery, Pasadena (April): Of History of Hope Show
2014 Giant Robot GR2, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (January): Year of the Horse Show
2014 Flower Pepper Gallery, Pasadena (January): Twice Told Tails
2013 Giant Robot GR2, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (December): Post it Show 9
2011 Melt Down Gallery, Los Angeles (October): I Want My Music Video
2010 CoproNason, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, (December): Gold Dust (Solo Show)
2010 Spoke Art, San Franscisco (October): Bad Dads Art Show: Tribute to the films of Wes Anderson
2010 CoproNason, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (October): Bon Appetite Group Show
2010 Gallery Nucleus, Alhambra, Los Angeles (September): Sweet Streets 2 Group Show
2010 Swoon Gallery, Silverlake, Los Angeles (August): Get the Lead Out II Group Show
2010 Thinkspace Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (August): Love Conquers All Group Show
2010 Distinction Gallery, Escondido, (August): Jest in Time Phylogenesis of Clowns Group Show
2010 Sea Shepard Conservation Society, Riverside (July): Sea no Evil Show!
2010 Rothick Art Haus Gallery, Anaheim, Orange County (July): Gob Magazine Studio Issue and Group Show
2010 Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, Orange County (June): 100 Artists see Satan Group Show
2010 WWA Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (June): I Believe in Unicorns Group Show
2010 Thinkspace Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (April): Hunt And Gather Group Show and Book Signing
2009 CoproNason Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (December): Gold Dust - (Solo Show)
2009 Nucleus, Alhambra, Los Angeles (December): Power By Numbers Show
2009 Corey Helford Gallery, Culver City, Los Angeles (December): Multi-Plane Show
2009 GhettoGloss Laguna Gallery, Los Angeles (September): The Human Pyramids Artist Collective Show
2009 ExhibitAGallery, Los Angeles (August): Bipolar Show
2009 Nucleus, Alhambra, Los Angeles (August): Sweet Streets Show
2009 CoproNason Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (July): Monsters Show
2009 London Miles Gallery, Notting Hill, UK (July): Candy Coated Canvas Show
2009 Rivet Gallery, Columbus, Ohio (July): We’ll be back... after these messages.
2009 Subtext Gallery, Comi-Con, San Diego (July): Meanwhile... at the Hall of Justice.
2009 Atticus Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (January): Nobody walks in LA.
2008 Corey Helford Gallery, Culver City, Los Angeles (July): Life, Death and the Imbetween - (Solo Show)
2007 Project Gallery, Culver City, Los Angeles (December): Christmas Show.
2007 Subtext, San Diego, Los Angeles (November): Kokeshi Show.
2007 Gallery 1988, San Fransisco (August): Back for Seconds.
2007 Corey Helford Gallery, Culver City, Los Angeles (August): Literartistry.
2007 CoproNason Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles (May): It was All a Dream- (Solo Show)
2007 Black Maria Gallery, Glendale, Los Angeles (March): Cult of Childhood.
2007 Corey Helford Gallery, Culver City, Los Angeles (Febuary): Paint by Number’s Show.
2006 Wax Poetic Gallery, Burbank, Los Angeles (November): Christmas Show.
2006 Corey Helford Gallery, Culver City, Los Angeles (October): Mommy, Mommy! Theres an Artist Under My Bed Show.
2006 Black Maria Gallery, Glendale, Los Angeles (June): Group Show
2006 Bamboo Lane Gallery, China Town, Los Angeles (April): Near Reality (Four Man Show)
2006 Gallery Nucleus, Alhambra, Los Angeles (March): Unicorn Show