Pixy Liao is a multidisciplinary artist who works with photography, installation, and performance to create works that undermine patriarchal stereotypes in a heterosexual relationship, humorously revealing the multitude of ways to be together. Liao is known for her staged photography where she poses with her Japanese partner and collaborator, Moro. Her carefully constructed tableaus culminate into her long-term and on-going photographic project, Experimental Relationship (2007-present). These self-portraits are performative and occasionally bawdy, in which Liao intentionally subverts traditional hierarchies in gender relations.
Liao’s upcoming solo exhibition “Pixy Lao: Relationship Material” will open at the Art Institute of Chicago on July 5th, 2025, and her past solo exhibitions took place at the MORE Museum (Gorssel, 2024), Blindspot Gallery (Hong Kong, 2024), Centre for Contemporary Photography (Melbourne, 2023), Lightwork (New York, 2022), Fotografiska (Tallinn, 2022; Stockholm, 2021; New York, 2021), and The Rencontres d’Arles (Arles, 2019). Liao took part in group exhibitions at Shanghai Mingsheng Art Museum (Shanghai, 2024), Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung (Munich, 2024), Power Station of Art (Shanghai, 2024), West Bund Artistic Center (Shanghai, 2024), WestLicht Photography Museum (Vienna, 2024), Johnson Museum of Art (New York, 2023), Shanghai Centre of Photography (Shanghai, 2023), Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth, 2022), Kalamazoo Institute of Arts (Michigan, 2022), Fotomuseum (Winterthur, 2022), Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung (Munich, 2021), National Gallery of Australia (Sydney, 2020), and HOW Museum (Shanghai, 2020).
Liao currently lives and works in Tokyo, Japan.
