Shu-Yu LIU (b.1995) was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and lives and works in Bali, New Taipei. She graduated from Taipei National University of the Arts with an MFA in Printmaking in 2023.

Her practice focuses on the perceptual relationships between people, architecture, and space, exploring how the body, through everyday gestures, recognizes and reconstructs the structures and orders of space. Traversing the boundaries between two- and three-dimensional forms, her works integrate printmaking, images, sculpture, and installation. By deconstructing and reorganizing the elements of things, she creates new connections and orders, establishing alternative ways of seeing and spatial languages. She regards the interaction between body and material as a form of “three-dimensional chartography,” through which she traces and reveals the relationship between herself and the external world.
 
Her works have been exhibited at the Taipei Fine Arts Museum (2025), Taoyuan Arts Center (2022), New Taipei Gallery (2022), and Hong Foundation (2019); and she held a solo exhibition at King Car Cultural & Art Center (2023). Liu has received the Next Art Tainan (2026), the Third Prize in Printmaking at the Taoyuan Fine Arts Exhibition (2020), and the Long Yen Art Award (2019). Her works are included in the collections of Art Bank Taiwan, the Long Yen Foundation, and private collectors.

Education

2023   MFA Taipei National University of the Arts, Department of Fine Arts
2018   BFA Taipei National University of the Arts, Department of Fine Arts
2016-17    École nationale supérieure d'art de Bourges, Frence  

Solo Exhibitions

2023  
Hippocampus Projection, Liu Shu-Yu Solo Exhibition, King Car Cultural & Art Center, Taipei, Taiwan
Set Up – Shu Yu Liu, YZ Space, Taipei, Taiwan

2018
How to Build a Perfect City, Kuo Mu Sheng Foundation Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Group Exhibitions

2025
Whispers of Traces, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan

2024
Engravings, Double Square Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
A Guide to Flower Viewing, Galley x Chiao, Taipei, Taiwan

2023
Making kin with Better Life, He & She Space, New Taipei City, Taiwan

2022 
Alchemizing Mist: Wen-hao Zheng, Shu-yu Liu, New Taipei Gallery, New Taipei City, Taiwan
Y.E.S TW in Leipzig, Aki Gallery Leipzig, Germany
Y.E.S Taiwan IX, Aki Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Print Out Times 2022 Taoyuan International Print Exhibition, Taoyuan Arts Center, Taoyuan, Taiwan

2021 
The 4th Contemporary Sculpture Lih Pao Prize, Underground Experimental Field, Taipei, Taiwan
Drifting in the City, Taoyuan Public Assembly Hall, Taoyuan, Taiwan
SANYING ART Sang-Ying Community Art Project, Fu-Xing Temple, New Taipei City Art Museum, New Taipei City, Taiwan

2020 
2020 Taoyuan Fine Arts Exhibition, Department of Cultural Affairs, Taoyuan, Taiwan
Lohizaw: Returning to the Migration Route of SaySiyat, Iasang Art, Zhunan, Taiwan
Seven Gradations of Blackness- MBMore Group Exhibition, Taiwan Academy of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan


2019 
Floating Dust- Shu-Yu LIU, Wen Hao Zheng Dual Exhibition, Project Seek, Hong Foundation, Taipei, Taiwan
2019 Young Printmaking Artists Exhibition, Aimer Art, Beijing, China
Three Generations of Taiwanese Printmaking Artists, Babylon Gallery, Samara, Russia
Micro- traces, Book as the Continuous Landscapes of Life, Enkabunko, Taipei, Taiwan
The 13th Art Scholarship of Long Yen Foundation, Underground Experimental Field, Taipei, Taiwan
Microwave Editions, YONG FU, Taipei, Taiwan
Prologue: A Journey Begins, TC Yacht, Taipei, Taiwan

2017 

Ghost Estate, Gymnase, Brouges, France

2016 
Xanadu Project II- A Place Without Boundaries, TC Yacht, Taipei, Taiwan

Artist in Residency

2025   Silpakorn University- Faculty of Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Arts, Thailand x Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei

Awards

2026   Next Art Tainan, Tainan, Taiwan
2021  The 4th Contemporary Sculpture Lih Pao Prize, Selected, Taiwan
2020  2020 Taoyuan Fine Arts Exhibition, Third Prize, Taiwan
2019  The 13th Art Scholarship of Long Yen Foundation, Taiwan

Grants

2025  Grants for International Cultural Exchange, National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan
2022  Visual Arts Regular Grants of National Culture and Arts Foundation, Exhibition Grant, Taiwan

Collection

2024   A Wreath of Apple, Private collection
2024   Building with Spiriting Bricks, Private collection
2020   Towards, Art Bank Taiwan, Taiwan
2019   Signboard of Daydream, Long Yen Foundation, Taiwan
2019   Airy Lego, Long Yen Foundation, Taiwan
2019   Unreachable (Before Sunset), Da Xin Art Museum, China