Liao Wen 廖雯

Liao Wen's artistic practice includes sculpture, video, and performance. Her humanoid sculptures exude both a sense of primordiality and futurism, teetering on the edge of rules and taboo-breaking. She draws inspiration from puppetry, anthropology of ritual and myth, medicine, art history, and everyday norms. Through provocative language, she attempts to contemplate the social order, technology, and the disciplining of power projected onto the body while simultaneously imagining the possibilities of the future body.

 

Liao Wen (b. 1994 Chengdu) lives and works in Hong Kong. She received her MFA from Central Academy of Fine Arts China in 2019 and her BFA from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in 2016. Her solo exhibitions include  "By devouring it, I learn about the world", Capsule Venice (Venice, 2024); "Naked", Frieze New York (New York, 2023); "Almost Collapsing Balance," Capsule Shanghai (Shanghai, 2021), and "The Body Knows Silently," Cai Jin Space (Beijing, 2021). She has participated in group exhibitions "Durian-Durian: Southeast Asian Studies as a Methodology," The First Trans-Southeast Asia Triennial (Guangzhou, 2023); "Bodies and Souls," Cassina Projects (Milan, 2023); "Durian on the Skin," François Ghebaly Gallery (Los Angeles, 2022); "BOOMERANG-OCAT Biennale 2021", OCT Art & Design Gallery (Shenzhen, 2021); "2nd Women Artists International Biennial of Macau" (Macau, 2020); "She Says", Chengdu Contemporary Image Museum (Chengdu, 2019) among others. 

 

She was one of the finalist artists of the Ducato Prize 2023 and was awarded the Frieze New York Stand 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.