Artists

An Te LIU

An Te Liu (born 1967 in Taiwan) lives and works in Toronto and is one of Canada’s most noted artists of the moment. Liu’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues including the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, EVA Ireland, the Venice Biennale of Architecture, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Liu has been artist in residence at the Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, which published the monograph, An Te Liu : Matter in 2009. More recently, the catalog An Te Liu : MONO NO MA was published by the Gardiner Museum in conjunction with his solo exhibition there.

As the representative artist for Canada in the 2014 Shanghai International Arts Festival, Liu has transformed discarded Styrofoam packing from consumer goods into ceramic and bronze sculptures that evoke a multiplicity of references. Using remnants of the contemporary world, Liu conjures forms recalling iconic works of both the ancient and modern periods. While each sculpture bears the imprint of an object in use today, the ambiguity of their origin invites reflection upon our relationship to things, both utilitarian and artistic, old and new. As such, the sculptural works of Wu Zhi Zhi Wu stand like fossils of an evolving, unconscious present.

Liu’s works are included in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and The Art Institute of Chicago. Upcoming exhibitions include the Kunsthalle Vienna, the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, ART LABOR Gallery in Shanghai, and the 2014 Biennial of the National Gallery of Canada.

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Born

1967 in Taiwan

Education

Master of Architecture, Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles
Honours B.A., Fine Art History, Renaissance Studies, Victoria College, University of Toronto

Solo Exhibitions

2023
Signal to Noise, Blouin | Division, Toronto, Canada

2022
Low Fidelity, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2019
La Durée, Galerie Division, Montréal, Canada

2018
NEW LIFE, Fundación Marso, Mexico City, Mexico
La Durée, Division Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2017
Transmission, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2016
An Te Liu—Naine Blanche, Musée d’art de Joliette, Joliette, Canada

2015
An Te Liu—Des bribes et des morceaux, Galerie Division, Montréal, Canada
An Te Liu—Solid States, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA) at Toronto Sculpture Garden, Canada

2014
In Absentia, Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge / Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery / Art Gallery of Grande Prairie, Canada
The Knowing Nothing of the Thing, ART LABOR Gallery, Shanghai

2013
Mono No Ma, Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada
Recodings, Bulthaup, Toronto, Canada

2012
BLAST, Allen Lambert Galleria, Brookfield Place, Toronto, Canada

2011
Lost in Transaction, No. 9 Contemporary Art, Pearson International Airport Toronto, Canada
BLAST, Michael Klein Gallery (MKG127), Toronto, Canada

2009
Pook X Pookie, SCI-Arc Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2008
Matter, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Style and Epoch, Michael Klein Gallery (MKG127), Toronto, Canada

2007
Ether, The News at Five, Toronto International Art Fair, Canada

2004
Ether, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada
Tackiness and Anti-Power, Artists Space, New York, USA

2001
Condition, Henry Urbach Gallery, New York, USA

2000
Pathology, Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG), Vancouver, Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025
An Te Liu and Jemima Murphy: Tracing, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2024
Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing, The Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Le temps passe lentement, Galerie Blouin | Division, Montréal, Canada

2023
Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing, The Church, Sag Harbor, USA

2022
Moving: Expressibe Bodies in Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Conversations Masterworks, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Ontario, Canada

2021
Good Company: The Remix, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Dérive, Galerie Blouin | Division, Montréal, Canada

2020
Alejandro Cardenas / An Te Liu, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Staycation, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

2019
New Monuments for New Cities, The Bentway Toronto, Canada / High Line Network, New York, USA
The Conversation, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco, USA

2018
Nothing Stable Under Heaven, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA
The House Imaginary, San Jose Museum of Art, USA

2017
The Preservationists, Duddell’s, Hong Kong
And the Sky is Grey, Art Toronto, Canada
Chicago Architecture Biennial—Make New History, Chicago, USA
Imago Mundi—Great and North, Palazzo Loredan, Venice (cat.), Italy
Sticky Fingers, Arsenal Contemporary, New York, USA
Jeu et Diversion, Art Souterrain, Montréal, Canada
Aéroports / Ville Monde, La Gaïte Lyrique, Paris, France

2016
The Blur in Between, Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA), Edmonton, Canada
Terminal P, La Panacée, Montpellier, France
Don’t Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth, Four Six One Nine, Los Angeles, USA

2015
Contrastes, Arsenal, Montréal, Canada
Stories Told, O’Born Contemporary, Toronto, Canada

2014
Shine a Light: 2014 Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Suburbia—A Model Life, Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA), Edmonton, Canada
The Brancusi Effect – The Archival Impulse, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
2014 Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Casting the Negative, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2013
To Be Small or To Have Presents, Stichtung SEA Foundation, Tilburg, the Netherlands
Airport Landscape, Harvard GSD, Cambridge, USA

2012
Museum for the End of the World, Nuit Blanche 2012, Toronto, Canada
Collection Tedeschi, Parisian Laundry, Montréal, Canada
Local Color, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA
Full Circle, WORKShop, Toronto, Canada

2011
PARAdesign, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, USA
Hyper Spaces, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
The More Things Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, USA
Place, Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada

2010
Empire of Dreams, Museum of Canadian Contemporary Ar, Toronto, Canada
Out of Sight, Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada
Everything Must Go, Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto, Canada
Design Domestic, Design Exchange, Toronto, Canada

2009
The Leona Drive Project, Willowdale, Canada
eva International Biennial of Visual Art 2009, Limerick, Ireland
Fremtidens arkitektur er grøn!, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
Mouth of Lenin, Exhibition 211, New York, USA
Transclimatic, Sydney Customs House, Sydney, Australia

2008
11th Venice Biennale – Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, Venice, Italy
Hier ist Amerika oder Nirgends, Galerie Ben Kaufmann / Art Berlin Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
246 and Counting, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, USA
Figuration in Contemporary Design, The Art Institute of Chicago, USA

2007
Modelle für Morgen: Köln, European Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
Pattern Theory, Michael Klein Gallery (MKG127), Toronto, Canada
Paradox Practice: Architecture in the Wake of Conceptualism, UCI Art Gallery, Irvine, USA
Happy Birthday, Michael Klein Gallery (MKG127), Toronto, Canada

2006
Street, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
Sense of the City, Centre Canadien d’Architecture (CCA), Montréal, Canada

2005
Airborne, Henry Urbach Gallery, New York, USA
Therefore Beautiful, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
Re Building The World, Art Gallery of Edmonton, Canada

2004
Ziploc, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph, Canada
A.C., Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, USA
Domestic Odyssey, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, USA

2003
mosaiCanada: Sign and Sound, Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul, Korea
Dead Malls, Urban Center Gallery at the Municipal Art Society, New York, USA
Rethinking Photography IV: New Reduction as Expansion, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
Bauhauswerk, weework, Toronto, Canada

2002
New Modulr, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto and The Art Gallery of Calgary, Canada
Housebroken, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA

1999
Luster, Henry Urbach Gallery, New York, USA

Commissioned and Awarded Public Projects

2023
The Idea of An Island, Lendrum Fine Art / Mitsui Fudosan, Los Angeles, USA

2020
MIXER, Oxford Properties Group / Park Hyatt Hotel, Toronto, Canada

2019
Leaders of Men and The Gift, de Pury de Pury (London/Zurich) / Waldorf Astoria, New York
Tropos, PAM / Concord Adex, Ethennonnhawahstihnen’ Park, North York

2017
All Together Now, Kensington Market Lofts, Toronto, Canada

Important Collections

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Art Institute of Chicago
San Jose Museum of Art
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
The Glenbow Museum, Calgary
Gardiner Museum, Toronto
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Bank of Montréal Collection
Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg
Toronto Dominion Bank Collection
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
Oceana Bal Harbour
The Glass House, New Canaan
Claridge Collection, Montréal
Telus Collection, Calgary

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