Pixy Liao

b. 1979, Shanghai, China

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Pixy Liao is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice covers photography, installation, and performance. Liao is known for her staged photography, where she poses with her partner, Moro, who is Japanese and five year her junior. Her works challenge the traditional gender roles in heterosexual couples, humorously revealing the multitude of ways to be together.

Liao’s solo exhibitions include “Your Gaze Belongs to Me”(2021) at Fotografiska, New York, “Choose Your Own Adventure” (2020) at SCOPE Hannover, Hannover, Germany and “UNE RELATION EXPÉRIMENTALE”(2019) at the Rencontres d’Arles in Arles, France. Liao has also participated in exhibitions and performances in institutions internationally, including How Museum, Shanghai, China (2020); National Gallery of Australia, Sydney (2020); Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK (2019); the Museum of Sex, New York, USA (2017); Asia Society, Houston, USA (2016); and Firstdraft Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2016); He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China (2014).

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.

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