Sunnie Liu

Sunnie Liu is an transdisciplinary artist interrogating faith, parable, and ritual to create diasporic biomythography and liberation evangelism. Born in rural China but raised in Texas as a child of Chinatown workers and queer congregant of the Southern Baptist Church, Sunnie mobilizes installation, video, sculpture, performance, social practice, and new media as interfaces for reclaiming place, power, and history for disempowered communities. Sunnie graduated from Yale University with degrees in Studio Art and History. Rooting practice in community, Sunnie organizes for abolition, fights against displacement of Manhattan’s Chinatown, and combats misinformation as a co-founder of Xīn Shēng | 心声 Project.

Sunnie has been an artist-in-residence with the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Chautauqua Institution, Foundation House, and Bandung Residency. Sunnie’s work has also been exhibited across the US including at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Ely Center for Contemporary Art, Think!Chinatown, and POV on PBS.