September 22 - October 10, 2010

ArtPrize Competition, UICA

Beili Liu ArtPrize Profile
Project: Lure/Forest

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Up: 48341

Venue: Urban Institute of Contemporary Art- Sheldon Exhibition Center
41 Sheldon Boulevard SE Grand Rapids

ArtPrize+Creator+Community. Part arts festival, part social experiment--this international contest is decided solely by public vote.
Check out voting information here.

July 17 – September 11, 2010

Unraveling Tradition • Contemporary Artists Working with Fiber Media

Unraveling Tradition focuses primarily on sculpture and installations, featuring the work of artists who use fabric, yarn, thread and various fiber media to create nontraditional objects and assemblages. They convey contemporary ideas and concerns, using traditional handwork techniques such as weaving, sewing, embroidery, felting, knitting and crochet. Artists include Mandy Greer, Miya Hannan, Sarah Hewitt, Lisa Kellner, Beili Liu, Tristin Lowe, Yelizaveta Nersesova, Ellen Rothenberg, Valerie Roybal, Alyce Santoro, Loren Schwerd and Jerilea Zempel. Curated by 516 ARTS, in conjunction with Convergence: Albuquerque 2010 the International Fiber Arts Conference (July 18-24, 2010).

516 Arts 516 Central Avenue SW, Albuquerque, NM

June 2010

Austin Critics Table Awards—

Outstanding Solo Exhibition 2009
Beili Liu: Bound, D Berman Gallery

The Austin Critics’ Table — a group of arts critics from the American-Statesman, the Austin Chronicle and Might Be Good gave out the 18th Austin Critics’ Table Awards to recogniz the year's most exceptional achievements in dance, classical music, the visual arts, and theatre.
Nominated solo exhibitions also include: "Colby Bird: Cold End," Okay Mountain "Erin Curtis: Perspective Threshold," Women & Their Work "Noriko Ambe: Artist Books, Linear-Actions Cutting Project," Lora Reynolds Gallery "Off the Edge: The Experimental Prints of Cynthia Brants," Flatbed Press "Texas Instruments: New Paintings by Esther Pearl Watson," Domy Books. See full list here -

May 16- June 20, 2010

Beili Liu: Site Specific Installations

half empty. half full

Solo Exhibition

Nordisk Kunst Plattform Project Space

Bru 28 4363 Brusand, Norway
Opening Reception: May 16, 2010

Left: exhibition views of two gallery rooms
Top: The Yellow Room, Bottom: half empty. half full, detail

Stavanger Aftenblad, Norway Review

Jærbladet, Norway Review

April 30 - May 28, 2010

Beili Liu: Fray

Solo Exhibition

Gallery CON.form Architects, Brunnenstrasse 3, 10119 Berlin
Opening Reception: April 30, 2010, 7 - 9 pm

Asia Unlimited Gallery

December 26, 2009

Saatchi Online, UK
Beili Liu, Top 10 Exhibitions in Shanghai 2009

Chris Moore reports on the top 10 exhibitions in Shanghai in 2009, including Beili Liu's solo exhibition 'In Between':

Beili Liu: In Between, Elisabeth de Brabant This intensely sensual exhibition about transformation, memory and their relations was captivating precisely because of its lightness, most notably the work 'Lure/Return' (2009), involving hundreds of silk-thread poppies made of single-threads of coiled silk and hung from the ceiling, and which swayed gently in the still air of the gallery. See the full list here-

January 23 - March 6, 2010

Beili Liu: One, Another

Solo Exhibition

Buffalo Arts Studio

January 26, 2010, Buffalo Rising Review
January 22, 2010, Buffalo News, "Ties that Bind"
December 27, 2009, Buffalo Rising Preview

December 4, 2009

Beili Liu receives "Artist of the Year" Award in 3D medium

Austin Museum of Art and Austin Visual Arts Association

~ News Archive 2008-2009