SELECTED HONORS AND AWARDS
| 2022-24 | Andrew Carnegie Fellowship, Carnegie Corporation of New York, NY |
| 2021-24 | NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship, New York Foundation for the Arts, NY |
| 2021-22 | Fulbright Arctic Chair, Fulbright U.S. Distinguished Scholar Award, Norway |
| 2022 | Pollock Prize for Creativity, Pollock-Krasner Foundation, New York, NY |
| Puffin Grant, The Puffin Foundation, Teaneck, NJ | |
| 2020 | The Bessies Award Honoree, Outstanding Visual Design: Tim Yip (Visual Director and Set) and Beili Liu (Installation) For Under Siege by Yang Liping Contemporary Dance, Lincoln Center, New York, NY |
| 2019 | Artist Residency, Joan Mitchell Center, New Orleans, LA |
| Artist Residency, Studio at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA | |
| 2018 | Texas State Artist in 3D Medium. Designated by the Texas State Legislature and Texas Commission on the Arts |
| 2016 | Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant |
| 2015 | Sky Bridge: Best Public Art Installation 2015, KQED, San Francisco, CA |
| Roman Witt Visiting Artist Residency, Penny Stamps School of Art & Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | |
| 2014 | National Endowments for the Arts Challenge America Grant |
| Institutional grantee: Art Museum of Southeast Texas | |
| 2013 | Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artistic Innovation And Collaboration Grant (Lead Visual Artist) |
| Institutional Grantee: Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin TX | |
| 2011 | Distinction Award, Kaunas Biennale, TEXTILE 11, Kaunas Lithuania |
| 2010 | ArtPRIZE 2010 3rd Prize, Grand Rapids, MI, |
| 2009 | Top 10 Exhibitions in Shanghai, Beili Liu, Sacchi Review, UK |
| Artist of the Year, Austin TX, Austin Museum of Art and Austin Visual Arts Association. | |
| Artist Residency, Fundación Valparaíso, Spain | |
| 2008 | San Francisco Mayor’s Award for Cultural Exchange |
| 2007 | Artist Residency, Onoma Foundation Fiskars AIR, Finland |
| 2006 | Artist Residency, Djerassi Foundation, CA |
| 2004 | Artist Residency, Art Farm Artist residency, NE |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2024 | Rising Water, Houston Arts League, Houston, TX. Curated by Zhaira Costiniano. |
| 2024 | Beili Liu: Arctic Mending, Kimura Gallery, University of Alaska Anchorage, Anchorage, AL |
| 2024 | SBeili Liu: Every/Where, Hillard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA. Curated by Benjamin Hickey. |
| 2023 | Between the Glacier and the Sea, Spitsbergen Artists Center, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway. Curated by Elizabeth Bourne. |
| 2023 | Dreams of the High North, Hå Gamle Prestegard, Norwegian National Contemporary Art Center, Hå, Norway. Curated by Ingunn Sirevåg Nord-Varhaug. |
| 2020 | One and Another. Crow Museum of Asian Art, Dallas, TX. Curated by Jacqueline Chao. |
| 2019 | Each and Every, MadART, Seattle, WA. Curated by Emily Kelly. |
| 2018 | After All / Mending the Sky, Galerie An Der Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich, Germany |
| Sky Well/Como, Museum of Villa Bernasconi, Como, Italy. Curated by ARTE & ARTE Foundation. | |
| 2017 | After All / Mending the Sky, Grunwald Gallery of Art, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN |
| 2016 | Sky Well, Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA |
| Light As A Feather, McGregor Conference Center, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI | |
| Where Winds Are Gaining Speed, Hå Gamle Prestegard, Norwegian National Contemporary Art Center, Hå, Norway.Curated by Ingunn Sirevåg Nord-Varhaug. | |
| Thin Air, Wright Gallery, College of Architecture, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX | |
| 2015 | Sky Bridge, Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, curated by Abby Chen |
| Stratus, Grace Museum, Abilene, TX | |
| 2014 | Chine, The Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX |
| Yuan, University of Hawai’i Gallery, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa | |
| 2013 | Beili Liu: Process Drawings, Courtyard Gallery, University of Texas at Austin |
| Amass, University Gallery, Texas State University, San Marcos | |
| 2012 | Rise and Fall, HUA Gallery, London, UK |
| Beili Liu: “Der rote Raum”, Hamburg Art Week, Emporio Quarter, Hamburg, Germany | |
| Between Wind and Water, Vessel Gallery, Oakland, CA | |
| 2011 | Installationen & Wandarbeiten, Galerie An Der Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich, Germany |
| Recall, Hå Gamle Prestegard, Norwegian National Art and Culture Center, Norway | |
| Drawn, Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln | |
| Extent, Form/Space Atelier, Seattle | |
| The Mending Project, Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin TX | |
| 2010 | Fray, Asia Unlimited Gallery, Berlin, Germany |
| Half Empty, Half Full, Site-Specific Installations, Nordisk Kunst Platform Gallery, Brusand, Norway | |
| One, Another, Buffalo Arts Studio, Buffalo, New York | |
| 2009 | Mapping Memories, Beili Liu and Takafumi Ide, (two person exhibition), Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, NY |
| In Between, Elisabeth De Brabant Art Center, Shanghai, China | |
| Bound, d berman Gallery, Austin TX | |
| Miasma, Three Walls Gallery, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX | |
| Three Thousand Troubled Threads, Tarryn Teresa Gallery, Los Angeles | |
| 2008 | LURE／惑, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, Curated by Abby Chen |
| LURE, Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan | |
| 2006 | Recall (shadow), Gallery One, Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Recall (barn), A site-specific installation, Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, California | |
| Aline, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
| 2005 | Breadth, A site-specific installation, Lloyd Hall Scholars Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| 2004 | The Little House Stands on the Prairie, A permanent site-specific installation, Art Farm, Nebraska |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2022 | Hidden. Fiskars Art & Design Biennale 2022 in Fiskars, Raasepori, Finland. Curated by Susanna Louneva. (Forthcoming) |
| Asia-Europe V Satellite. Muséum Manufacture, Roubaix, France. Curated By Marika Szaraz. | |
| Asia-Europe V. International Fiber Art Traveling Exhibition, Tamat Museum Of Tournai, Belgium, Texrilmuseum, Krefeld, Germany, Curated By Marika Szaraz. | |
| 2021 | Women at Work: Global Overseas Chinese Artists Exhibition. He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China, |
| Fulbright 75th Anniversary Virtual Art Exhibition Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program | |
| Making Home. Asian Society Texas Center, Houston TX. Curated by Bridget Bray. | |
| Call & Response: Craft as a Tool for Activism. Museum of Craft and Design, San Francisco, CA | |
| Homecoming. Women & Their Work, Austin, TX | |
| Asia-Europe 5. International Fiber Art Traveling Exhibition, Kuvola Museum, Finland, Curated By Marika Szaraz. | |
| 2020 | After Carolee: Tender and Fierce. Artpace, San Antonio TX. Curated by Annette DiMeo Carlozzi. |
| Mending the Sky. New Orleans Museum of Art, LA. Curated by Katie Kphol | |
| ATX10, Artist Flag Project. FACEBOOK AIR, Austin, TX | |
| Forefront. Cynthia Reeves Gallery, MASS MoCA Campus, North Adams, MA | |
| The Further We Roll, The More We Gain. MAP (Make Art with Purpose), Curated by Janeil Engelstad | |
| 2019 | Sanctum. Big Medium Gallery, Austin TX. Curated by Alyssa Taylor Wendt. |
| Site Lines, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston TX. Curated by Bridget Bray. | |
| WIDER WEST IN SEOUL, Oil Tank Culture Park - T6, Seoul, Korea. Curated by Shine Here and Big Medium ATX. | |
| GIFT WORKS, Janina Monkutė-Marks Art Museum, Kedainiai, Lithuania | |
| Process, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca NY. Curated by Jeffreen M. Hayes. | |
| MATERIALITY, Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL. Curated by Jessica Dallow. | |
| 2018 | XIANRUI: 10 YEARS, Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco, CA. |
| Feminum, 2018 Texas Sculpture Symposium, Landmark Arts Galleries, Texas Tech University, Dallas, TX. Curated by Loren Schwerd. | |
| Asia-Europe III. International Fiber Art Traveling Exhibition, Monkute-Marks Museum, Kedainiai, Lithuania. Curated by Marika Szaraz. | |
| 2017 | Communicating Vessels, Bunkier Sztuki Gallery, Kraków, Poland Curated by Anna Lebensztejn and Kinga Olesiejuk. |
| Tensile Strength, Sculpture Month Houston exhibition. Silos at Sawyer Yard, SITE Gallery, Houston TX | |
| Instrumental Performance Series, Detroit Institute of Arts, MI Curated by Thomas L. Pyrzewski. | |
| Asia-Europe III. International Fiber Art Traveling Exhibition, Central Museum of Textiles, Łódź, Poland. Curated by Marika Szaraz. | |
| Asian Art Week New York Exhibition FitzGerald Fine Arts, New York, NY | |
| 2016 | SCOPE MIAMI, FitzGerald Fine Arts, NY, NY /Miami FL |
| Asia-Europe III. International Fiber Art Traveling Exhibition, Deutsche Textilmuseum’, Krefeld, Germany. Curated by Marika Szaraz. | |
| Naissance, Gallery 701 at the Long Center, Austin TX. Curated by Philip Rogers | |
| Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, Zhejiang Art Museum, China | |
| Judy’s Cabinet of Dada Curiosities. R.Blizer Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA. Curated by Frank Foreman | |
| 2015 | Every One To The Table, (Recall/Como), Arte & Arte Foundation, Como, Italy, curated by Luciano Carame |
| 2014 | Inquiry, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas, Austin |
| Art Silicon Valley Art San Francisco Contemporary Art Fair, Vessel Gallery, Oakland, CA | |
| M&M: Material + Meditation, Vessel Gallery, Oakland CA | |
| Confluence and Collision, Asian Cultural Center Manhattan Art Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Shades of Summer, Vessel Gallery, Oakland, CA | |
| EROS, (Lure/Montrouge), Musée de la Dentelle in Caudry, Montrouge, France | |
| 2013 | EROS, (Lure/Como), 23rd International Exhibition Of Contemporary Textile Art, Vila Olmo, Como, Italy |
| Across the Divide, traveling exhibition, Missouri State University Southwest, Oklahoma State University | |
| POPIERUKAS 2013, Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania | |
| Artifact, Tiny Park Gallery, Austin TX | |
| 2012 | POST LINEAR, Shawn Camp, Beili Liu, and Sandra Pratt. Gallery Shoal Creek, Austin, TX |
| High Fiber: Women to Watch, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Wasington, D.C. | |
| ‘From Lausanne To Beijing’ The 7th International Fiber Art Biennale, Nantong, China | |
| Contemplative Ink, Asian Art Piers, New York, NY | |
| InterGalactic, Dunedin Fine Art Center, FL | |
| Quantified Self, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, MI | |
| Woven Through Time, Vessel Gallery, Oakland, CA | |
| Texas Draws II, Southwest School of Art, San Antonio, TX | |
| Obsessive Worlds, Alexandria Museum of Art, LA | |
| Across the Divide, Visual Art Center, University of Texas at Austin | |
| 2011 | Across the Divide, Corssman Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater |
| Kaunas Biennial TEXTILE 11, National Art Museum, Kaunas, Lithuania | |
| Obsessive Worlds, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX | |
| The Mona Lisa Project, Austin Museum of Art, Austin, TX | |
| Material Spaces: Veneration Through the Needle’s Eye, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, MI | |
| 2010 | Combined, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin 2010 |
| Nature/Culture, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY | |
| Unraveling Tradition, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM 87102 | |
| Mind, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
| By A Thread, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art | |
| 2009 | IT IS BEAUTIFUL HERE, Granary Gallery, Fiskars, Finland |
| IF/ELSE, Detroit Industrial Project, Detroit, MI | |
| A Strange Land, Creative Research Lab, Austin, TX | |
| The Storm Show, Work.Ann Arbor Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI | |
| 2008 | San Francisco International Arts Festival |
| Ying-Inspired by Chinese art and History, Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California | |
| Aging with Attitude, Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor | |
| 2007 | Earth World, Bu-Con, Russell Industrial Center, Detroit |
| Turning Point, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
| Transparent, Granary Gallery, Onoma foundation of Finland, Fiskars, Finland | |
| in.stal.la.tion, Anton Art Center, Mount Clements, Michigan | |
| “Ay, madam, it is common.” Detroit Industrial Projects | |
| Water Media +, curated by Maria Ruggiero, Riverside Art Center, Ypsilanti, Michigan | |
| 2006 | 12+12, Washington Street Gallery, Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Minimal and Maximum, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan | |
| 2006 | Just a squirrel, trying to find a nut, Forum Gallery, Cranbrook Academy of Art |
| 2005 | Collaborators’ 2, Gallery Project, Ann Arbor, Michigan |
| Plexus, 4731 Gallery, Detroit |
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY, PUBLICATIONS
| 2021 | Masse, Marie-Madeleine. L’Art du fil / The Art of Thread, Éditions Alternatives (Gallimard group), Paris, France |
| 2020 | Rockman, Deborah. Drawing Essentials: A Complete Guide to Drawing. 4th edition, Oxford University Press |
| 2019 | Ren, Jie. Soft Material: Flexibility in Contemporary Art. 可变之物：当代艺术中的软材料. Phoenix Publishing, Jiansu, China |
| Beers, Kurt. 100 Sculptors of Tomorrow. Thames & Hudson, UK, Hardcover | |
| Each and Every. Exhibition catalogue, MadArt, Seattle, WA | |
| Site Lines: Artists Working in Texas. Exhibition catalogue, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston TX | |
| 2018 | Stanton, Andra F. Dimensional Cloth, Schiffer Press, Hardcover |
| 2017 | Open Form: Facebook Artist In Residence, 2012-2017, Facebook, Inc., Hardcover |
| Bryan-Wilson, Julia. Fray: Art and Textile Politics, 1970s-1990s. University of Chicago Press, Hardcover | |
| 2015 | Chang, Gordon H. History of the Chinese Culture Center. Chinese Culture Foundation, San Francisco, CA |
| Everyone To The Table / 2015 MINIARTEXTIL COMO. Exhibition catalogue, Arte & Arte Foundation, Como, Italy | |
| Luc, Virginie. De la nature à l’oeuvre / NATURE AT WORK. Ulmer Publishing, France, Hardcover, pp.52-59 | |
| Confluence and Collision. Exhibition catalogue, The Center For Chinese Art at William Paterson University | |
| Installation Art Now. Sandu Publishing, Hong Kong, Hardcover, (4 installation projects featured), pp.20-21, pp.32-35, pp.114-115 | |
| 2014 | Beili Liu: Chine. Solo exhibition brochure, Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX |
| Beili Liu: Yuan. Solo exhibition brochure, University of Hawaii Art Gallery, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa | |
| 2013 | THIRST. A documentary, PBS Program, KLRU Austin Arts in Context |
| EROS / 2013 MINIARTEXTIL COMO. Exhibition catalogue, Arte & Arte Foundation, Como, Italy | |
| POPIERUKAS 2013. Exhibition catalogue, Kaunas Photography Gallery, Kaunas, Lithuania | |
| 2012 | From Lausanne To Beijing. Exhibition catalogue, 7th International Fiber Art Biennale, China |
| High Fiber: Women to Watch. Exhibition catalogue, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C | |
| Hamburg Art Week: The Red Room. Solo exhibition catalogue, Hamburg Art Week | |
| Beili Liu: Rise and Fall. Solo exhibition catalogue, Hua Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2011 | Kaunas Biennial. Exhibition catalogue, Kaunas National Museum, Lithuania |
| Obsessive Worlds. Exhibition catalogue, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX | |
| Across the Divide 2011. Exhibition catalogue, University of Wisconsin, White Water | |
| The Mona Lisa Project. Exhibition catalogue, Austin Museum of Art | |
| The Mending Project. Solo exhibition catalogue, Women and Their Work Gallery | |
| 2010 | Unraveling Tradition. Exhibition catalogue, 516 ARTS, Albuquerque, NM |
| 2009 | In Between. Solo exhibition catalogue, Elisabeth De Brabant Art Center, Shanghai, China |
| It is Beautiful Here. Exhibition catalogue, Granary Gallery, Fiskars, Finland | |
| 2008 | Beili Liu: Mining the material. Solo exhibition catalogue, Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco |
| 2007 | Transparent. Exhibition catalogue, Granary Gallery, Fiskars, Finland |
SELECTED ACADEMIC HONORS
| 2021 | Humanities Faculty Fellowship, University of Texas, Austin |
| 2020- | Leslie Waggener Professorship in the College of Fine Arts, University of Texas, Austin |
| Distinguished Service Excellence Award, College of Fine Arts University of Texas, Austin | |
| Dads’ Association Centennial Teaching Fellowship, University of Texas, Austin | |
| 2018 | Grace Hill Milam Centennial Fellowship in Fine Arts, College of Fine Arts, UT Austin |
| 2012 | Regents Outstanding Teaching Award, University of Texas System |
| 2011 | Walter and Gina Ducloux Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, Sabbatica |
| 2008 | Ronald Colins Distinguished Faculty Award, Office of the Provost, Eastern Michigan University |
| Josephine Nevins Keal Fellowship, Eastern Michigan University | |
| 2007 | Artistic Recognition Award, Eastern Michigan University |
| World College Travel Grant, Eastern Michigan University | |
| 2002 | Barbour Scholarship, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
| Elsie Choy Lee Scholarship, Center for the Education of Women, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENT
| 2022- | Leslie Waggener Professorship in the College of Fine Arts University of Texas, Austin |
| 2017- | Professor, Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Professor Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas, Austin |
| 2011-17 | Associate Professor, Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Professor Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas, Austin |
| 2008-11 | Assistant Professor Department of Art and Art History, College of Fine Arts, University of Texas, Austin |
| 2005-08 | Assistant professor Department of Art, Eastern Michigan University |
| 2003-05 | Adjunct Assistant Professor Penny Stamps School of Art and Design, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor |
EDUCATION
| 2003 | M.F.A. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mixed Media/Sculpture/Installation |
| 2001 | B.A. Magna Cum Laude University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Graphic Design |
| 1994 | Assoc. B.A. Shenzhen University, China, Chinese Literature and Communication |
Updated March 2022.