Ani Liu

Ani Liu is an internationally exhibiting research-based artist working at the intersection of art & science. 

Ani’s work examines the reciprocal relationships between science, technology and their influence on human subjectivity, culture, and identity. Reoccurring themes in the work include gender politics, biopolitics, labor, reproduction, simulation and sexuality.

Ani’s work has been exhibited internationally, at the Venice Biennale (Architecture Biennale 2021), Ars Electronica, the Queens Museum Biennial, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Asian Art Museum, MIT Museum, MIT Media Lab, Mana Contemporary, Harvard University, and Shenzhen Design Society. Ani’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Art in America, National Geographic, VICE, Mashable, Gizmodo, Hyperallergic, TED, PBS, FOX and WIRED.  

Ani is the winner of numerous awards including the Princeton Arts Fellowship (2019-2021), the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship (2020), the Virginia Groot Foundation Fellowship (2020), the S&R Washington Prize (2018), the YouFab Global Creative Awards (1st place, 2018), the Biological Art & Design Award (2017).  Ani has a B.A. from Dartmouth College, a Masters of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Master of Science from MIT Media Lab. 

Ani is passionate about integrating multidisciplinary approaches to art making, and is currently an Associate Professor of Practice at the University of Pennsylvania. Ani has previously taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design,  Princeton University, Columbia University, and is on critique panels at Harvard, Dartmouth, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, NYU, UNC Charlotte, Pratt, Parsons.

Ani continually seeks to discover the unexpected, through playful experimentation, intuition, and speculative storytelling. Ani’s studio is based in New York City.

I am a research-based artist. My work examines the reciprocal relationships between technology and its influence on human subjectivity, culture, identity. In my project oriented practice, each work involves a deep dive into a new body of research, resulting in new modalities of thinking and making. As such, I have utilized techniques ranging from sculpture, laboratory work, biometric sensing, perfumery, robotics, projection, and cell culturing. Reoccurring themes in my work include feminism, gender politics, synthetic biology, labor, robotics, nostalgia and longing. My work imbues scientific processes with narrative and emotional expression, humanizing technology and blurring the lines between rational/emotional, hard/wet, human/machine, engineered/organic.

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