Baker Artist Portfolios

Liu Yefu focuses on video, drawing and mixed-media. Influenced by Asian folk culture, Liu is interested in the expression of black humor with a stream of consciousness style, playfully comments on the chaos and restlessness of social realities. By creating dramatic scenes, combined with carefully hand-made products in line with his fictional plot, Liu mapping the ideology and stereotypes brought by history, nationality, and memory. While blurring the boundary on the notion of region and time, his work demonstrates the core values and violent essence of the emergence of a modernization process serving the rule and national development.

Liu’s solo exhibitions including: John Lenin (Baltimore, 2023), Fool’s Paradise (Beijing, 2022), Hehemeimei, (Basel, 2021), No Easy Symbolism (Beijing, 2018), Episode 1 (Beijing, 2016). His recent works have been exhibited at 4th BIENALSUR (upcoming, online, Buenos Aires, 2023), 25th Gabrovo Biennial for Humor & Satire in Art (Gabrovo, 2022), Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong, 2019), Gene Siskel Film Center (Chicago, 2019), OCAT Museum, (Beijing, 2018), He Xiangning Museum (Shenzhen, 2017), Le Carreau du Temple (Paris, 2017), Ullens Center of Contemporary Art (Beijing, 2017), YUZ Museum (Shanghai, 2016), Kimberly-Klark Gallery, (New York, 2015) among others. Liu is the nomination of Han Nefkens Video production grants (Barcelona, 2022), Balois Art Prize (Basel, 2021), Huayu Youth Award (Sanya, 2016) and he is the finalist of Toby Devan Lewis MFA Fellowship (Baltimore, 2014).