Yijun (Pixy) Liao is a Chinese born, American photographer.
Yijun (Pixy) Liao was born in Shanghai. Liao currently lives in Brooklyn. Liao received a MFA in photography from University of Memphis.
She is mostly known for her series "Experimental Relationship". The series depicts her with her younger Japanese boyfriend.
Liao received NYFA Fellowship, En Foco's New Works Fellowship. She won Second Place LensCulture Exposure Awards in Portfolio Category. She had been an artist in residence for Pioneer Works, Light Work, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Center for Photography at Woodstock and Camera Club of New York.
Liao's works are in public collections around the world, including Museum of Modern Art Artist Book Collection, Franklin Furnace Archive, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, The Kinsey Institute, Center for Photography at Woodstock, etc.
2008 “Experimental Relationship”, Adam Shaw Gallery, Memphis, TN
2011 “Memphis, Tennessee”, Chinese American Art Council, New York, NY
2013 “Let’s Make Love”, Camera Club of New York, New York, NY
2013 “The Second Story of Two Stories”, Kips Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2015 "Experimental Relationship”, Circuitous Succession Gallery, Memphis, TN
2016 "Some Words are just between Us”, Curated by Sophia Cai, First Draft Gallery, Sydney, Austra
2016 "Venus As A Boy”, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China
2008 “4th Wall”, 2008 China Pingyao International Photography Fest, Pingyao, China
2008 “Girl’s Club”, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN
2009 “Photography Now 2009” juried by Charlotte Cotton, Center of Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY
2010 "Making the Leap: Crossing Borders", A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2019 “Irrelevant: Local Emerging Asian Artists Who Don't Make Work About Being Asian”, Arario Gallery, New York, NY
2011 "Flash Forward", Magenta, Toronto, Canada
2011 "ITS#PHOTO", International Talent Support, Trieste, Italy
2011 "nextkunst.licht", Kunst Licht Gallery, Shanghai, China
2012 "Span of Vision", VT Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2012 "Song of Ordinary Madness", Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon
2012 "This Must Be the Place: Contemporary Photography in Memphis", Dixon Gallery, Memphis, TN
2013 “Musings” juried by John Bennett, Photo Center NW, Seattle, WA
2013 “En Foco New Works Exhibition” curated by Natasha Egan, Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
2014 “Small is Beautiful”, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
2014 "Double Vision", curated by Boyi Feng, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
2014 "Latent Talent", curated by Jesús Micó, SCAN-Tarragona 2014, Tarragona, Spain
2014 “An Ocean of Possibilities”, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Fries Museum, the Netherlands
2014 "RACE, LOVE, AND LABOR" curated by Sarah Lewis, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY
2014 “Summer Open”, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
2014 “20th Juried Exhibition” curated by Aline Smithson, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2014 “The National”, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
2014 “THREE” curated by Elisabeth Biondi, Hagedorn Foundation Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2015 “No Holds Barred—Young Contemporary Art from China” curated by Boyi Feng and Lars Jonnson, OPEN ART Biennial, Örebro, Sweden
2015 “Evidence”, Obscura Festival, Malaysia
2015 “Container City”, Triennial of Photography Hamburg, Hamburg
2015 "EVIDENCE", FORMAT Festival, Derby, UK
2015 "Engendered", Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2016 “Bagsim”, chi K11 Art Museum in Shanghai, Shanghai, China
2016 “WECHAT - A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art” curated by Barbara Pollack, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, TX
2016 “The Real Thing”, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY
