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Bio

Sunnie Liu is a queer Chinese American interdisciplinary artist creating diasporic biomythography, critical fabulation, and liberation evangelism. Sunnie mobilizes installation, video, sculpture, performance, social practice, new media, writing, curation, and collaboration as interfaces for reclaiming power, place, and history for disempowered communities. Sunnie's practice is informed by lived experiences growing up as an immigrant, child of Chinatown workers, and queer congregant in the Southern Baptist Church.

Sunnie is half of artist collective Parallax with Malaika Temba and co-edits Divine zine. Rooting practice in community, Sunnie organizes not only locally, but also digitally as a co-founder of Xīn Shēng | 心声 Project. Sunnie holds degrees in Studio Art and History from Yale University. Sunnie's work has been featured by the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Asian American Arts Alliance, Think!Chinatown, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, POV on PBS, Yale Norfolk School of Art, Foundation House, Bandung Residency, Chautauqua Institution, and NYU Press.

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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Devoted, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NY)
2024 Forthcoming, Ely Center of Contemporary Art (CT)
2023 Abolition House, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts - MoCADA (NY)
2023 Pulling Taut Ten Towards Heaven, Foundation House (CT)
2022 MOONSquare, Think!Chinatown (NY)
2022 Endnotes, Green Gallery - Yale School of Art (CT)
2022 受洗 (Baptized), EIK (CT)
2022 From the Archives, Asian American Cultural Center at Yale (CT)
2021 ABOUT LOVE, POV on PBS (NY)
2020 Intergenerational Resistance, STAND for Comfort Women (CT)
2017 Origins of the Self, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (TX)
2016 Junction, BLUEOrange Gallery (TX)
2015 From the Margins, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (TX)

RESIDENCIES, FELLOWSHIPS, & AWARDS
2024 Artist-in-Residence, Chautauqua Institution (NY)
2024 What Can We Do? Grant, Asian American Arts Alliance - A4 (NY)
2023 Bandung Artist-in-Residence, MoCADA & A4 (NY)
2023 Artist-in-Residence, Foundation House (CT)
2022 Ethel Child Walker Prize, Yale School of Art
2021 Artist-in-Residence, Yale-Norfolk School of Art (CT)
2020 Robert Reed Award, Yale School of Art

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2024 AX Mina, “Peeling Back the Layers of Religious Devotion,” Hyperallergic
2023 Xin Zhang, “Gathering to Discuss the Future of Chinatown,” World Journal
2022 Claire Lee, “COLLOQUIUM: Senior Theses on Asian American Issues,” Yale Daily News 2021 Sabrina Lin, “Houston, TX,” 2021 VIRAL LOVE: Stories of Chinatown Resilience
2020 Stephanie Arnett, “Online Activism: A Year in Review,” MIT Technology Review
2020 Jacquelyn Gleisner, “Centering Women,” New Haven Arts Paper

SELECTED WRITING
2025 Contributing Author, The Politics of the Multi-Racial Right, NYU Press (book - forthcoming)
2023-Present Co-editor,Divine(zine)
2023 Co-author, Not For Sale (zine)
2021 Narrative Strategist & Writer, May 19th Project (multimedia campaign)

SELECTED TALKS
2024 Panelist, “Artists Building Black & Asian Solidarity in NYC,” Ford Foundation
2024 Panelist, "Documenting Good Trouble," Asian American International Film Festival
2024 Speaker, “Storytelling as Building Blocks Towards Political Power,” National CAPACD Speaker
2023 Artist Talk, “Afro-Asian Poetics, Music, & Solidarity,” MoCADA
2023 Speaker, “Asian Americans Fight Copaganda,” MediaJustice & 18 Million Rising
2020 Keynote Speaker, “InterASIANality, Apex for Youth Conference

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2024 Walking Stories, Edge on the Square (CA)
2023 Not For Sale: Material Traces of Protest in Chinatown & LES, Citygroup (NY)
2021 Women From the Center, Yale Center for British Art - YCBA (CT)
2019 Jefferson Pinder: Fire & Movement, DiverseWorks (TX)
2019 Chromatic Crosscurrents: Blue & the British Empire, YCBA (CT)