About Me

Caroline Liu is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans various mediums, including painting, drawing, fiber art, and murals. She is known for her exploration of decadent and dark surrealism, intricately weaving together realistic and illustrative motifs to create densely packed magical environments that blur the boundaries between light and dark, real and imagined. Inspired by her own memories, nostalgia, culture, and identity, Liu reflects on the complexities of the human experience, inviting viewers into rich, immersive worlds that spark conversations around grief and joy, love and loss, chaos and meditation. Her work evokes a sense of familiarity and curiosity, inviting viewers to jump into her visual narratives and breathe in the magic around them.


Liu holds a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of New Mexico and has exhibited both nationally and internationally in galleries and museums. In 2023, Liu debuted her first West Coast solo exhibition, ‘Stages of Grief,’ at Thinkspace Projects in Los Angeles, and a two-person exhibition, ‘Perhaps, and Nevermore,’ at Pie Projects Contemporary Art in Santa Fe. Their work has been published in many contemporary publications including New American Paintings, The Chicago Tribune, and Southwest Contemporary. Caroline has been in collaboration with the City of Chicago, Meow Wolf, and Meta to create large-scale murals. In 2024, they completed a residency at the prestigious Wassaic Projects in New York and a traveling train residency hosted by Ogden Contemporary Arts that spanned from Denver CO to Sacramento CA.

Caroline is represented by Pie Projects Contemporary Art in Santa Fe, New Mexico.