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 recent solo exhibitions were held at the Center for Photography at Woodstock (New York, 2026), Art Institute of Chicago (2025), 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(2019). Liao took part in group exhibitions at Auckland Art Gallery (2026), White Rabbit Gallery (Sydney, 2025), M+ (Hong Kong, 2025), Alexander Tutsek-Stiftung (Munich, 2025 & 2021), Power Station of Art (Shanghai, 2025), West Bund Artistic Center (Shanghai, 2024), WestLicht Photography Museum (Vienna, 2024), Shanghai Centre of Photography (2023), Art Gallery of Western Australia (Perth, 2022), Fotomuseum (Winterthur, 2022), and National Gallery of Australia (Sydney, 2020), among others. She was awarded the 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship.
Liao currently lives and works in Tokyo.
