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Jen Liu

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‘Still nodding night – mad naked summer night’ 2005 Watercolor, ink and colored pencil on paper, 276×145 cm

‘Spring, The Sweet Spring, Is The Year’s Pleasant King; Then Blooms Each Thing, Then Maids Dance In A Ring, Cold Doth Not Sting, The Pretty Birds Do Sing. Cuckoo, Jug-Jug, Pu-We, To-Witta-Woo!’ 2005 Watercolor, ink and colored pencil on paper, 276×145 cm

‘Winter is icumen in, Lhude sing Goddamm, Raineth drop and staineth slop, And how the wind doth ramm! Sing: Goddamm’ 2005 Watercolor, ink and colored pencil on paper, 276×145 cm

‘Was It The Gost Of Autumn In That Smell Of Underground, Or God’s Blank Heart Grown Kind, That Sent A Happy Dream To Him In Hell? 2005 Watercolor, ink and colored pencil on paper, 276×145 cm

Still from the video ‘Soldiers of Light’ 2005

‘LAALAL: Diamonds of the Earth’ 2005 Watercolor, ink and colored pencil on paper, 105 x 47 inches

‘LAALAL: Like Water in Water’ 2005 Watercolor, ink and colored pencil on paper, 195 x 195 inches

‘LAALAL: Volcano Fire Makes Ash Flowers’ 2005 Watercolor, ink and colored pencil on paper, 105 x 47 inches

Stills from the karaoke-video ‘2304 is a beer drinking year’ 2004

Jen Liu

1976 born in Smithtown, New York, United States

Lives in New York, United States

Education

2001 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California: MFA Fine Arts and Integrated Media
1998 Oberlin College, Oberlin Ohio: BA Creative Writing, BA Studio Art with High Honors

Links

www.jenliu.info

Jean Tinguely

Pirelli HangarBicocca

Milan

Anne Duk Hee Jordan

Kunst Haus Wien

Vienna

Steirischer Herbst 2024

Graz

9th Biennale Gherdëina

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