Beili Liu: One and Another

Beili Liu is an Austin-based visual artist and UT-Austin art professor. In her first major exhibition in Dallas, Liu has created two site-responsive installations, Lure/Dallas and Each and Every/Dallas, in Gallery 1 and the Mezzanine respectively, that together touch on the theme of human connection.

Working with everyday materials and elements such as thread, scissors, paper, stone, fire and water, Liu manipulates their intrinsic qualities to extrapolate complex cultural narratives that reflect not only her Chinese cultural heritage and personal experiences but the societal traumas associated with migration and diaspora.

Her work has been exhibited in Asia, Europe and across the United States, and she has held numerous solo exhibitions at internationally renowned venues.

Through her practice, Liu subjects commonplace materials to unorthodox processes, extrapolating complex cultural narratives around the trauma associated with migration and diaspora.

This exhibition is the inaugural exhibition of the museum’s Texas Asian Women Artists Series.