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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 illnesses, 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, polarized, and digitized world, she creates vibrant, intimately detailed paintings depicting her chosen family and beloved community in moments of everyday levity. Her practice, comprising visual art complemented by writing, insists upon the importance of joy: far from a frivolous indulgence, it is the essence of our shared humanity.
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 and received a fully funded residency fellowship from Vermont Studio Center. In 2025, she was granted the Raina Giese Award in Painting and the J.E. Wallace Sterling Award for Scholastic Achievement by Stanford University, and was longlisted for Jackson’s Art Prize. Her work has been featured by the official @instagram account and appeared in The New York Times, and she has been profiled by Artwork Archive and Character Media.