Pixy Liao

b. 1979, Shanghai, China

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Liao is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice covers photography, installation and performance. Liao is known for her staged photography, where she poses with her boyfriend-turned-muse, Moro. Her works challenge the traditional gender roles in heterosexual couples, humorously revealing the multitude of ways to be together.

In 2019, Liao had a major solo exhibition at the Rencontres d’Arles in Arles, France. Liao has also participated in exhibitions and performances in institutions internationally, including the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art (Beijing, China); He Xiangning Art Museum (Shenzhen, China); the Museum of Sex (New York, USA); Asia Society (Houston, USA); Open Eye Gallery (Liverpool, UK); and Firstdraft Gallery (Sydney, Australia).

Liao currently lives and works in New York.

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Experimental Relationship / 2007 - now

Pixy Liao’s long-term and on-going photographic project, Experimental Relationship (2007- present), is a celebration of the naturally unconventional relationship between the female artist and her partner Moro, a Japanese man who is fives years her junior. In a series of photographic self-portraits, Pixy and Moro playfully subvert the conventions of traditional gender dynamics, often presenting the couple in gender non-conforming positions. Liao stages scenes that range from the intimate to the risqué, as she questions concepts of heteronormativity, gender roles, and the codes of experimentation and collaboration in a relationship.

Yishu, Experimental Material: Desire and Intimacy in the Work of Pixy Liao by Luise Guest, July/August 2020

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