Lhamo Yue Liu is an artist and curator. Born in Jiaxing, Zhejiang, 1998, she currently lives in Los Angeles, Shanghai and Lhasa. Liu graduated from the School of Visual Arts in New York with a bachelor’s degree and received a master’s degree from the California Institute of the Arts. Liu’s creation and research focus on the definitional origin of the cultural vocabulary of “other” and its contemporary fermentation, exploring the national culture and historical politics, observing the spirituality lingering in modern society, cultural expression in the post-colonial era, to conduct exploration and research of contemporary art practices through interdisciplinary thinking. Her recent research topic is mainly artistic anthropology, in such context, focusing on how the carrying of nation and culture and the boundaries are expressed in art.

Recent solo exhibitions include: “Ghost Narratives: Witchcraft as Resistance” (California Institute of the Arts D301 Gallery, California, 2023), “Pseudo-myth” (Helan Mountain Art Museum, Yinchuan, 2022), “Tusalava” (Ultramontane, Hangzhou, 2021). In 2022, she co-founded the Rimu Art Project, committed to promoting the development of contemporary art in Tibet. As a curator, she has curated exhibitions including “Echoes of Mt. Qomolangma-Unfolding Thoughts in Modern and Contemporary Art in Tibet” (Hanshan Art Museum, Suzhou, 2022), “Echoes of Mt. Qomolangma-Space/Place/Nature” (Daqian Contemporary Art Center, Beijing, 2022), “The Waxed and Waned village” (Ultramontane, Hangzhou, 2022). She recently has initiated various events, including “Tibetan contemporary art: The drive of nature, the reproduction of divinity, the return of mother tongue” (Minsheng Museum, Beijing, 2021), “Impermanence is Permanent” (Power Station of Art, 2023). Her translated work Mathematics and Art: A Cultural History has been published in 2023.