Chia Hsiu Liu's portfolio

Work samples

FIREWORKS

oil and gouache on canvas
100 x 52 inches
2026
FIREWORKS is a large-scale painting that invites viewers to step into a long, imaginary landscape. Inspired by the Baltimore street view in spring, the artist was moved by the freshly grown leaves and began painting them in detail, freehand. Following the painting's free-form style, the artist painted vases and pots beneath the floating leaves to help the plants settle, redirecting the discussion to the artist's main topic: the fluctuating identity.

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HARVEST

oil and gouache on canvas
80 x 56 inches
2026
Inspired by the fall weather. The artist felt a sense of rootlessness that came from every random item; she started to collage the loneliness that leaks through those items, including utensils, plants, sweet potato, or even the trash can on the street, fixing and adjusting the painting until it matches what she feels.

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TILES

oil and gouache on canvas
75 x 68 inches
2025
This painting is a large-scale collage. The artist focuses on painting a tile pattern from memory, one she saw in her grandparents' home. The upper part of the painting depicts a Baltimore building that evokes all these memories. How can patterns, shapes, and color trigger one's memory?

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SPRING

SPRING
oil, gouache, and graphite on canvas
90 x 78 inches
2025
SPRING IS AMAZING! The artist focuses on the vibrant energy of spring water and the atmosphere of the spring season, using repeating shapes and lines, as well as the collage method, to bring out the hidden order in this abstract painting. It could be a landscape painting of a city in spring, or an imaginary depiction of the word SPRING.

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About Chia Hsiu

Chia Hsiu Liu is a Baltimore-based artist and painter originally from Taiwan. Liu’s paintings focus on rootlessness and the fluctuating identity of an Asian artist in metropolitan cities, exploring the excitement of a futuristic, urban perspective. Her abstract paintings are inspired by the architecture and fast pace of the cities she has lived in, especially Taoyuan (Taiwan), Baltimore, and New York. Liu aims to maintain a watery effect in oil paintings and uses her self-developed collage… more

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Landscape and Land

My paintings focus on the sense of rootlessness and the fluctuating identity of an Asian artist in metropolitan cities, exploring the excitement of a futuristic, urban perspective. I’ve developed many painting techniques during my art practice, mainly focusing on collage and on maintaining a watery effect in oil paintings.

My paintings are inspired by the architecture and fast pace of the cities I’ve lived in, especially Taoyuan (Taiwan) and Baltimore. A series of drips becomes a grid or a building. Things move in and out of nameability. A multitude of small worlds coexist, competing for attention. Transportation is everywhere and moves fast from one zone to the next. Gentle pastels compete with brighter colors activating the surface and yielding a pervasive quality of light and atmosphere that is urgent but optimistic. Systems of order are proposed and contradicted, subject to the flux of experience.