Shirley W. Liu

Taipei-born visual artist Shirley (b. 1990) maintains a practice that spans painting, sculpture and concenptual art. Her work grows from a personal truth: her thoughts manifest not as language, but as images, rhythms, and sensations. Art became the place where she can comb through her mind, until it forms a way of understanding the world and herself.

Travel has profoundly shaped her perspective along with her Taiwanese heritage. She seeks to capture that rooted soft resilience and understated strength. After graduating from Taipei University, she set out to experience the world firsthand. Having lived in Australia, Japan, New Zealand and explored four continents, these cross-cultural experiences deepened her awareness of how human minds and the environments we inhabit are equally layered and never reducible to a single answer. These intertwined relationships have become the themes she continually returns to in her work.

Shirley now divides her time between Taiwan and Canada. Her work has been exhibited in solo and group shows in Canada and forthcoming in Taiwan in 2026. She has participated in residency Art in the Park by Parks Canada, and received support and recognition from Visual Art Open International Artist Awards and CTBC Foundation Painting Prize.