Qingqing Liu is a Chinese artist now based in London. She graduated from Royal College of Art (Contemporary Art Practice, 2021) . Her works across moving image, performance, installation and text. She likes to play with and create surreal scenarios, that locate traditional oriental worldviews, in the space of neon sci-fi aesthetics. The animistic concern of definitional dynamic between the animate and inanimate is a constant theme in her practice. Through fantasizing about the tender sweetness and extreme cruelty of feminist environments, her work celebrates the joy of being born out of the darkness, and explores the transcendental material that gives illusion to everything; in both physical and virtual worlds.
Prizes & Awards
BloombergNew Contemporaries, Shortlist, 2022
Emerging Filmmakers Night, Fiction and Experimental Official Selection, 2021
Chicago Indie Film Awards, Best Experimental Nominee, 2021
London Indie Short Festival of 24Frames, Experimental Shorts Nominee, 2021
London Independent Film Awards, Best Experimental Short Student award, 2021
Calcutta International Cult Film Festival, Outstanding Achievement Award, 2021
Selected Exhibition & Performance & Screening
Europe
‘If Splash as Your Whistle’, Goldsmiths CCA Residency Space, London, 2023
‘Bodies, Gluttony, and Me’, Pictorum Gallery, London, 2023
‘Breaking Convention’, Exeter University, Exeter, 2023
‘Pipe Dreams’, Chisenhale Art Place, London, 2023
‘The Filthy Fox Auction Club’, Batsford Gallery, London, 2022
Embodied, Slash Arts, London, 2022
Play/Pause, Chisenhale Gallery, London, 2022
HUNGER GAMES: under the tablecloth, Ugly Duck, Fringe Queer Film & Art Festival, London, 2022
The House That MUM Built, Svntos32b, London, 2022
In Hub x SBM, The Koppel Project, London, 2022
I Felt That, The Tub, London, 2022
Absent Traces, London Craft Week, Barge House, OXO Tower Wharf, London, 2022
The magnificences, The Amersham Arms, London, 2022
Riposte, The Cause, London, 2021
All The Guilty Things, Kiosk N1C, London, 2021
Contemporary Art Practice Graduate Exhibition, Cromwell Place, London, 2021
Royal College Of Art Degree Show, Royal College Of Art, London, 2021
Everything Forever, Royal College Of Art, London, 2021
The State of Art Symposium, London, 2021
Reynaysonce Fayre, London, 2021
SW11DOW, London, 2021
CAPbaret, associated with TBCTV, London, 2020
302_Redirect, Moving image works with ICA, London, 2020
Work in Progress, Royal College of Art, London, 2020
Oh Deer, Safe House, London, 2019
Asia
‘Proaction 02: Diverging Paths, New Creations’, Yuan Art Museum, Chongqing, 2022
The 4thChinaAcademic Experimental Art Education Documentary Exhibition, Taoxichuan Art Museum of The Central Academy of Fine Arts, Jingdezhen, 2022
Hungry Artists, Jingjiang Hotel, Shanghai, 2021
Extreme-Double Solo Exhibition, Enjoy Art Museum, Beijing, 2021
No Space Junk, Shanghai Museum/Gallery Stuff Biennale, Himalayas Museum, Shanghai, 2021
Rabbit Hole, Shanghai Museum/Gallery Stuff Biennale, Arkila Art Centre, Shanghai, 2021
An Afterparty, Shanghai Museum/Gallery Stuff Biennale, SS Gallery, Shanghai, 2021
Talk & Panel
‘HUNGER GAMES: Under the Tablecloth’, Rich Mix, Fringe Queer Film & Art Festival, London, 2022
Publication
Soanyway Magazine, Volume 2 Issue Six, 6/2020
