ARTIST
AN TE LIU

An Te Liu’s practice dwells on memory, objecthood, and perception. It gathers and reinterprets artifacts in an elision of origins, appearances, and meanings. Working across an extensive field of material culture, Liu is interested in how forms of human invention and expression – whether artistic or utilitarian – evolve, mutate, and recur over time. Trained as an art historian and architect, Liu’s role is akin to that of an archaeologist and narrator, tracing and reconstructing genealogies across different epochs and categories of creation.

Often working in bronze and ceramic, Liu has crafted an evolving array of sculptures and installations which reverberate with echos travelling between the past, present, and future. In these works there is a conflation of art, artifact, and monument, a uniting of the familiar with the mythic, and a convergence of the natural and the man-made. Through processes of reimagining and transformation, Liu’s artwork is an invitation to contemplate the passing of time, in all of its mystery and wonder.

Liu recently presented the solo exhibition Low Fidelity at Anat Ebgi Gallery in Los Angeles and is presently featured in group exhibitions at the McMichael Canadian Art Collection and the National Gallery in Ottawa. He is currently completing a large scale bronze sculpture commissioned by Lendrum Fine Art for a Los Angeles high-rise developed by Mitsui Fudosan America. This fall he will present the solo exhibition Signal to Noise at Galerie Blouin|Division, Toronto. A forthcoming monograph on the work of Liu is being published by Inventory Press, Los Angeles.

Liu’s work is included in numerous museum and institutional collections, among them the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Glenbow Museum, the Gardiner Museum, the Bank of Montreal and the Toronto Dominion Bank. Most recently, his works have been acquired by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA), and the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris.