About Me

Caroline Liu is a Chinese American multidisciplinary artist whose work spans across painting, drawing, sculpture, fiber art, and murals. Her work examines and memorializes Chinese American histories at risk of being forgotten, particularly histories of displacement, settlement, and survival in the American Southwest and West. With her homebase in New Mexico, a region shaped by these lost histories, her work is grounded in both historical research and lived experience. 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.


Liu holds a BFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of New Mexico and has exhibited nationally and internationally in respected galleries and museums. Caroline has been in collaboration with the City of Chicago, Albuquerque Public Arts, Meow Wolf, and Meta to create large-scale murals that represent her diverse range of visual narratives. She has been published in esteemed publications including Southwest Contemporary, New American Paintings, The Chicago Tribune, and The Southeast Review. In 2023, Liu debuted her first West Coast Solo Exhibition, ‘Stages of Grief,’ at Thinkspace Projects in Los Angeles, California, and in 2025 her first Solo Installation ‘The Chinese Garden’, inside City Hall’s Treasury Vault in Albuquerque, New Mexico. In 2023, she was awarded a residency at the prestigious Wassaic Projects in New York, as well as a Traveling Train Residency hosted by Ogden Contemporary Arts that spanned from Denver, CO to Sacramento, CA, with subsequent museum exhibitions in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico until 2025. In 2026, Liu was awarded funding for her project Feeding the Ghosts of Chinatown: A City Beneath the City, supported by the Fulcrum Fund, a grant program of 516 ARTS made possible by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts.

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