Buddha | Nature: Five Dialogues on Our Shared World, Group Exhibition

Buddha / Nature: Five Dialogues on Our Shared World traces a path through Buddhist wisdom using both ancient sculpture and contemporary art to illuminate the ecological and ethical questions of our time. Five remarkable works from the Xuzhou Collection, on long-term loan to the Museum since 2021, anchor the exhibition and appear for the first time in a fully contemporary setting at the MFAH. These Buddhist artworks are paired with five contemporary artists: Beverly Penn, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Erick Swenson, Liu Xiaodong, and Beili Liu. This exhibition is curated by Dr. Hao Shen.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston

2026 Chengdu Biennale, Pulse of Life

The 2026 Chengdu Biennale is a landmark international art event hosted at the Chengdu Art Museum. Themed “Pulse of Life,” this biennale draws inspiration from Chengdu’s unique “yanhuo” (vibrant, warm daily life) culture—celebrating the city’s laid-back yet lively spirit—and weaves it together with rational, global artistic observation to explore the connections between life, culture, tradition, and modernity, gathering a diverse lineup of 251 artists from 29 countries across 5 continents. Beili Liu presents Recall/Chengdu, a site-specific installation in Timescape Journey, one of six expansive themes of the multi-venue biennale, curated by Dr. Jay Xu, former director of the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco.

Chengdu Tianfu Museum of Art, Chengdu, China
Chengdu Museum of Contemporary Art, Chengdu, China
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Human/Nature: Envisioning the Environment, A Group Exhibition

Human/Nature: Envisioning the Environment brings together seven artists whose works reimagine our relationship with the living world, and with each other, in a time of both ecological uncertainty and fractured realities. Artists include Chantal Calato, Jeri Coppola, Simon Frank, Beili Liu, Alison Shields, Eszter Sziksz, and Dana Murray Tyrrell. This exhibition is curated by Douglas Tewksbury, Ph.D.

Castellani Art Museum, Niagara University, Niagara Falls, NY

Dallas Museum of Art Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant

One of three Dallas Museum of Art’s Awards to Artists, The Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant was established in 1990 to support enriching experiential and aesthetic influence of travel on an artist’s work. Awards to Artists reaffirms the Museum’s longstanding commitment to recognizing and supporting local artists and providing resources for these artists to expand their artistic practice. 

Dallas Museum of Art Awards to Artists

Glasstire Award Announcement

The Mother and… Project, Group Exhibition

The Mother and… Project celebrates motherhood as a source of expansive creative potential and alternative modes of being. Artists include Debbie Barrett-Jones, Rahele Jomepour Bell, Laura Berman, Mona Cliff, Julie Farstad, Nancy Friedemann-Sanchez, Diana Heise, Cory Imig, Sarah Irvin, Priya Kambli, Samantha Krukowski, Linda Lighton, Beili Liu, Sukanya Mani, Adrienne Maples, Amy Meissner, Althea Murphy-Price, and Sonié Joi Thompson Ruffin. The exhibition is co-curated by Dr. Eleanor Lim-MidyettCo-Curator and Courtney Wasson.

Leedy-Voulkos Art Center, Kansas City, MO

Hafnarborg Museum of Art Artist Residency, Hafnarfjörður, Iceland

Hafnarborg Museum of Art is situated in the heart of Hafnarfjörður, a port city and municipality in Iceland, located about 10 km south of Reykjavík. The museum has two exhibition galleries, featuring about a dozen different exhibitions each year. Hafnarborg’s artist-in-residence programme welcomes foreign and local artists of various disciplines.

Ucross Artist Residency

Situated in northeast Wyoming at the foothills of the Bighorn Mountains, Ucross’ residency program is open to visual artists, writers, composers, choreographers, interdisciplinary artists, performance artists, and collaborative teams from across the United States and around the world. 

UCROSS Foundation Artist Residency

Beili Liu: Mend, Monograph

Beili Liu: Mend is the first monograph solely dedicated to the artist’s practice and was published by Art League Houston in celebration of her recognition as the 2024 Texas Artist of the Year. Designed by Isobel Chiang of Small Edition in NYC and printed in Barcelona, this comprehensive publication chronicles over 20 years of Liu’s artistic exploration. It includes essays by Eddie Chambers, Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, Bridget Bray, Katie Pfohl, Kay Whitney, and Benjamin Hickey.

To purchase, visit Art League Houston Online Store

Breaking the Mold

Breaking the Mold exhibition features new and existing artwork inspired by Elisabet Ney by Austin-based artists Beili Liu, Virginia L Montgomery (VLM), and Tammie Rubin. Curated by Jade Walker.

Elisabet Ney Museum, Austin, TX

Rising Water, Solo Exhibition

Rising Water is a compilation of works created by ALH’s 2024 Texas Artist of the Year, Beili Liu, across diverse global locations. Liu’s practice explores how climate issues intersect with labor, migration, and social concerns, weaving these themes into a cohesive narrative that reflects the complexity of our global environmental crisis. Curated by Zhaira Costiniano.

Art League Houston, Beili Liu: Rising Water

Beili Liu, 2024 Texas Artist of the Year

Beili Liu: Arctic Mending, Solo Exhibition

Arctic Mending presents a series of site-responsive installations and performances based on Beili Liu’s extensive research in the High Arctic, in locations spanning Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Alaska. Curated by Alanna Derocchi.

Kimura Gallery, University of Alaska, Anchorage

Beili Liu Named 2024 Texas Artist of the Year

Art League HoustonSince 1983, Art League Houston (ALH) has been a leader in celebrating contemporary art in Texas through its annual awards. This year, ALH proudly names Beili Liu as the 2024 Texas Artist of the Year.

2024 Navigating the New Arctic Annual Community Meeting

Exhibition: Arctic StoryWords, curated and organized by ArtSLink.
Panel: Diverse Ways of Knowing: Linking Science, Indigenous Knowledge & the Arts. Vera Kuklina, Jenny Irene Miller, Beili Liu, moderated by James Temte. @arctictogether 2024 NNA Community Meeting George Washington University, Washington, D.C.

EVERY | WHERE, Solo Exhibition

Every / Where is an exhibition devoted to water and its many bodies and forms: rivers, seas, clouds, rain, their fragility and power. Every / Where explores our relationship to water in different ways that raise fundamental questions about art and how we understand each other’s lived experiences. Curated by Benjamin Hickey.

Hilliard Museum of Art, University of Louisianan, Lafayette, Lafayette, LA.

GEOHAPTICS: Sensing Climate

516 ARTS presents Geohaptics: Sensing Climate, a group exhibition uniting poignant works from artists who enact a somatic, empathic collaboration with the Earth using the senses, heart, and mind. Curated by Daniela Naomi Molnar.\

516 Arts Museum, Albuquerque, NM

INHERITANCE, Solo Exhibition

Ivester Contemporary is proud to present Beili Liu’s installation, Inheritance. Liu writes, “In 2018, I received a remarkable gift from artist Diane Sandlin, a large collection of crochet pieces created by her grandmother, Rosa Elliott Freeman (1884-1977). With Diane’s permission, I dipped this large crochet bedspread in black pine tar, suspended it in the center of the room, draped from it hundreds of sewing needles, and titled the installation, naturally, Inheritance.” \

Ivester Contemporary, Austin TX

2024 Border Biennial - El Paso Museum of Art and Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez

The 2024 Border Biennial / Bienal Fronteriza 2024 focuses on the unique identity of the borderland, which includes a diversity of experiences. The Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez (MACJ) and The El Paso Museum of Art (EPMA) are committed to fostering, strengthening, and honoring the dialogue spearheaded by curators, artists, and the communities we serve.

El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX
Museo de Arte de Ciudad Juárez

Between the Glacier and the Sea, Solo Exhibition

Between the Glacier and the Sea presents a series of site-responsive installation and performance projects based on the artist’s extensive research in the Arctic region and speaks to the interconnectedness and fragility of our relationship with the natural environment.

Spitsbergen Artists Center, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway

The Arctic Circle Artist & Scientist Residency - Spitsbergen Artists Center Residency

The Arctic Circle is a nexus where art intersects science, architecture, education, and activism – an incubator for thought and experimentation for artists and innovators who seek out and foster areas of collaboration to engage in the central issues of our time.

The Spitsbergen Artists Residency fosters the connection of artists from diverse countries, disciplines and media in the extraordinary environment of the Arctic.

The Arctic Circle - Artist & Scientist Residency Program, Svalbard, Norway

Spitsbergen Artists Center, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway

Anchorage Museum of Art Seed Lab Artist Residency

Anchorage Museum of Art is “a museum for people, place, planet, and potential, in service of a sustainable and equitable North, with creativity and imagination for what is possible”.

Anchorage Museum of Art

Franconia Sculpture Park Artist Family Residency

Franconia Sculpture Park is the pre-eminent, artist-centered sculpture park in the Midwest. Founded in 1996, Franconia provides physically and intellectually wide-open spaces that inspire new ways of thinking through access to contemporary sculpture, installation, and land art.

Franconia Sculpture Park Residency Programs

Dreams of High North

Solo Exhibition, curated by Ingunn Sirevåg Nord-Varhaug

Dreams of the High North presents a series of site-responsive installations and performances based on Liu’s extensive research in Arctic Norway as the 2021-2022 Fulbright Arctic Chair. Liu’s current artistic research focuses on the complex ecological, geopolitical, and environmental concerns facing the Circumpolar North and the urgency of the climate crisis on a planetary scale.

Dreams of the High North is made possible through the generous support from the Andrew Carnegie Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Fulbright Norway, US Embassy to Norway, NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship, and the College of Fine Arts, UT Austin.

Hå Gamle Prestegard, Norway

Arctic Infrascapes, Exhibition at the 2023 Arctic Science Summit Week

Arctic Infrascapes involves artists and scholars observing and depicting infrastructures in collaboration with local communities and Indigenous peoples, in various experimental art forms and epistemological genres. Curated by Olga Zaslavskaya & James Temte. Arts, Science, Local and Indigenous Knowledge (ArtSLInK) was born in an effort to bring local and Indigenous perspectives in the emerging field of arts-cience collaboration.

Arctic Infrascapes Online Catalog

University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria

Beili Liu Named Jedel Visiting Artist in Sculpture at KCAI

Kansas City Art Institute Sculpture Department hosted Beili Liu as the 2022 Jedel Visiting Artist. Past Jedel Vising Artists include Amy Franceschini and Lode Vranken of Futurefarmers, Shawn Brixey, Clare Qualmann and Claire Hind.

Synaptic: Sculpture Month Houston 2022

Curated by Volker Eisele Participating artists: Christie Blizard, Laurie Frick, Jeff Gibbons, Dave Greber, Stephan Hillerbrand/ Mary Magsamen, Hillary Holsonback, Meredith Jack, Ronald L. Jones, Sharon Kopriva/John Berry, Dameon Lester, Beili Liu, Virginia L. Montgomery, Chris Sauter, Matthew Steinke, Brad Tucker, Meredith Tucker.

Sculpture Month Houston
SITE Gallery
The Silos at Sawyer Yards
1502 Sawyer St. Suite 400
Houston, TX

HIDDEN Exhibition in Fiskars, Finland

Onoma Foundation, Fiskars, Finland. Curated by Laura Sarvilinna.

The summer exhibition 2022 explores multi-sensory experience through art, design and craft. HIDDEN is one of three main exhibitions in Fiskars Village Art & Design Biennale 2022.

Beili Liu Receives Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors

The Brian Wall Foundation Grant for Sculptors is awarded by the Brian Wall Foundation and administered by the Pollock-Krasner Foundation. The annual grant of $25,000 recognizes an outstanding sculptor from applicants around the world, providing financial resources to professional artists so that they may focus on their work.

Beili Liu Awarded the Pollock Prize for Creativity

Jan. 28, 2022, NEW YORK, NY.- The Pollock-Krasner Foundation announced today that the Pollock Prize for Creativity is awarded to Beili Liu. The Pollock Prize for Creativity, established in 2016 to honor the artistic legacies of Lee Krasner and Jackson Pollock, is given to an artist whose work embodies high creative standards and has a substantial impact on individuals and society.

Pollock Prize for Creativity

Visual artist Beili Liu awarded Pollock Prize for Creativity, Art Daily

Beili Liu Awarded Andrew Carnegie Fellowship

04.26.2022, NEW YORK, NY.- To help address important and enduring issues confronting our society, the Andrew Carnegie Corporation of New York announces the 2022 Class of Andrew Carnegie Fellows.

2022 Andrew Carnegie Fellows

Andrew Carnegie Corporation Press Release

In Working: Women In Art Practice

“In Working: Women in Art Practice - The 4th Overseas Chinese Artists Invitational Exhibition” takes a close look at overseas Chinese female artists and attempts to explore the diversity and possibilities in today’s social works. Curated by LI Beike and LIU Xiyan.

He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China

Sculpture Magazine Feature

Sculpture Magazine cover and featured interview: Soft Persuasion: A Conversation with Beili Liu by Kay Whitney

Beili Liu Receives NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship

Beili Liu receives NYFA Fiscal Sponsorship, in support of her Arctic research project, Dreams of the High North: Between Survival and Belonging.

Beili Liu Named Fulbright Arctic Chair

The U.S. Department of State and the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board are pleased to announce that Professor Beili Liu has received a Fulbright Distinguished Scholar Award: Arctic Chair Norway. Liu will research and teach at the Academy for the Arts at UIT, The Arctic University of Norway.

Fine Arts Professor Beili Liu Selected for Fulbright Distinguished Chair, April 16, 2021

After Carolee: Tender And Fierce

On view in the Hudson Showroom, After Carolee: Tender and Fierce was conceived for Artpace’s 25th anniversary year to give tribute to one of its most iconic former residents, Carolee Schneemann, and to welcome to Artpace for the first time more than a dozen women artists with Texas ties. Curated by Annette DiMeo Carlozzi.

Artpace, San Antonio, TX

The Wall Street Journal: Covid-Era Exhibits Promote Art as Therapy

Image: Artist Beili Liu’s installation made of silk and other materials is part of the ‘Mending the Sky’ exhibit at the New Orleans Museum of Art. SETH BOONCHAI/BEILI LIU STUDIO

To soothe visitors unsettled by the pandemic, some museums are showing works that aim to foster calm and hope

Mending the Sky

Mending the Sky brings together eleven artists to respond to a world in distress. The exhibition borrows its title from a Chinese fable in which a rip in the sky causes the earth to split open, bringing floods, fires, famine, and disease—until a goddess takes on the arduous task of mending the broken sky. The exhibition title borrows from artist Beili Liu’s installation, After All/Mending the Sky. Curated by Katie Kphol

New Orleans Museum of Art