Jackie Liu (b. 2003, Massachusetts) is a disabled and autistic artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She graduated from Stanford University in 2025 with a BAH in Art Practice, a minor in Philosophy, and a minor in Environmental Justice. She makes silly paintings with serious intent: resistance, healing, survival. Living with Long Covid and an alphabet soup of mental illnesses, she confronts trauma with irreverence, making art that both visually depicts joy and viscerally feels joyful to create. With oil paint layered over vibrant acrylic underpaintings, her intimately detailed portraits of beloved chosen family capture fleeting blissful memories and suspend them in a medium of painstaking slowness, imparting gravity and longevity upon seemingly trivial moments of levity. Seeking to revive presence and connection in an increasingly alienating, commodified, and digitized world, she wields paintbrush as wand to conjure wonder and gratitude for the small pockets of magic in life.