Contemporary Art Issue (CAI)

Qi Liu

Qi Liu, a Los Angeles‑based multidisciplinary artist, blends photography, installation, and art direction to interrogate gender, labor and cultural memory. Her 2021 series *The Women in the Fish Market* foregrounds female vendors in Hainan, while *Blind Spot* (2022) uses a white‑washed domestic tableau to render women’s invisible labor. The 2024 *QiQi Chairs Fair* stages a fictional chair market as a metaphor for societal categorization of women, and the ongoing *Wild Buddhas* project records millennial erosion on ancient Sichuan sculptures. Liu’s academic training at CalArts and consecutive Bartman Scholarships (2023‑2025) have accelerated her emergence in the contemporary art scene.