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Jackie Liu (b. 2003, she/her) is a disabled and neurodivergent Chinese American artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She makes silly paintings with serious intent: resistance, healing, survival. Living with Long COVID, autism, and an alphabet soup of mental and physical maladies, she confronts trauma with humor and joy – a tenacious declaration of the right to flourish. Seeking to revive presence, connection, and gratitude in an ever-more commodified, atomized, and digitized world, Liu creates vibrant, intimately detailed paintings depicting her chosen family and beloved community in moments of everyday levity. Her practice insists upon the importance of joy: far from a frivolous indulgence, it is the essence of our shared humanity and the blueprint for our liberation.
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Photo Credit: Jeremy Chiu
Liu graduated from Stanford University in 2025 with a BA with Honors in Art Practice, a minor in Philosophy, and a minor in Environmental Justice. Her work has been exhibited at the de Young Museum (San Francisco, CA); the Museum of Northern California Art (Chico, CA); Kearny Street Workshop (San Francisco, CA); SOMArts (San Francisco, CA); the San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center (San Francisco, CA); the Debbie Allen Dance Academy (Los Angeles, CA); Bedford Gallery (Walnut Creek, CA); Epperson Gallery (Crockett, CA); Good Mother Studio (Oakland, CA); Transmission Gallery (Oakland, CA); the Stanford Art Gallery (Stanford, CA); Fountain Street Gallery (Boston, MA); the Worcester Center for Crafts (Worcester, MA); and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington, DC).
In 2026, she won the Winsor & Newton International Art Prize, received a fully funded residency fellowship from Vermont Studio Center, and was shortlisted for Saatchi Art’s 2026 Rising Stars. In 2025, she was granted the Raina Giese Award in Painting and the J.E. Wallace Sterling Award for Scholastic Achievement by Stanford University. She has received commissions from Cambridge University Press, Sundress Publications, Dr. Martens, and DIRECTV. Her work has been featured by Instagram, ArtReview, The New York Times, Artwork Archive, Character Media, and Curatory Magazine.