Liao Wen lives and works in Hong Kong. She received her MFA from the Central Academy of Fine Arts China in 2019. Liao Wen’s practice spans sculpture, performance, and video. Drawing inspiration from puppetry, anthropology of myths and rituals, medicine, and art history, she interrogates the social order, technology, and disciplining power projected onto the body. Both primordial and futuristic, her works depict the unsettling balance of the body in the liminal state and imagine future bodily possibilities.
Her solo exhibitions include Capsule Shanghai (Venice,2024; Shanghai, 2021); Cai Jin Space (Beijing, 2021). She has participated in group exhibitions, Guangdong Times Museum (Guangzhou, 2024) The First Trans-Southeast Asia Triennial (Guangzhou, 2023); Cassina Projects (Milan, 2023); François Ghebaly Gallery (Los Angeles, 2022); OCAT Biennale 2021 (Shenzhen, 2021), among others. She was awarded the Frieze New York Stand prize in 2023 and was a finalist artist for the Ducato Prize in 2023. Her works have been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Art in America, The Art Newspaper China, and ArtReview. She has been selected to be the resident of Pro Helvetia in Switzerland in 2025.
