| 1979 | Born in Shanghai, China |
| 2008 | Graduated from University of Memphis with MFA, Photography |
| Currently | Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY |
| 2023 | “Day Dream”, Stieglitz 19, Antwerpen, Belgium |
| 2022 | “Piano Duet”, L21 Gallery, Barcelona, Spain “Your Gaze Belongs to Me” curated by Holly Roussell, Fotografiska, Tallinn, Estonia “Futari (Two Persons)” curated by Mary Lee Hodgens, Lightwork, Syracuse, NY |
| 2021 | “Your Gaze Belongs to Me” curated by Holly Roussell, Fotografiska, Stockholm, Sweden “Your Gaze Belongs to Me” curated by Holly Roussell, Fotografiska, New York, NY |
| 2020 | “Choose Your Own Adventure”, SCOPE Hannover Biennial, Hannover, Germany “Experimental Relationship (for your eyes only, or maybe mine, too)” curated by Henry Lu, Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Vancouver, Canada “Two Heads”, Stieglitz 19, Antwerpen, Belgium |
| 2019 | “Carry the Weight of You”, Galleri Vasli Souza, Oslo, Norway "UNE RELATION EXPÉRIMENTALE", the Rencontres d'Arles, Arles, France “Experimental Relationship”, FOTOGRAFIA EUROPEA, Reggio Emilia, Italy “Open Kimono”, Chambers Fine Art, New York, NY |
| 2018 | Pixy Liao, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festiva, Xiamen, China At Home: In the American West, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY San Gennaro Exhibiton, Baxter Street Camera Club, New York, NY MUSE MUSE, Czech Center New York, NY Disobedient Daughters, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia |
| 2017 | Lady and Gentleman, Galleri Vasli Souza, Malmö, Sweden NSFW: FEMALE GAZE, Museum of Sex, in collaboration with Vice's Creators Project, New York, NY A New Ballardian Vision, Metro Pictures, New York, NY Socially Engaged, Ernest G. Welch Galleries @ GSU, 2017 ACP Festival, Atalanta, GA Please fasten your seatbelt as we are experiencing some turbulence, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China |
| 2016 | Venus as a Boy, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China Some Words Are Just Between Us, First Draft Gallery, Sydney, Australia |
| 2015 | Experimental Relationship, Circuitous Succession Gallery, Memphis, TN |
| 2013 | Let’s Make Love, Camera Club of New York, New York, NY The Second Story of Two Stories, Kips Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
| 2011 | Memphis, Tennessee, Chinese American Art Council, New York, NY |
| 2008 | Experimental Relationship, Adam Shaw Gallery, Memphis, TN |
| 2023 | "Bodies & Souls” in collaboration with Capsule Shanghai, curated by Manuela Lietti, Cassina Projects, Milan, Italy "L21 Broadcasting from Paris", JPS Gallery, Paris, France |
| 2022 | "I have not loved (enough or worked)", Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia "Unmasking Masculinity for the 21st Century", Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan, US “I LOVED YOU”, White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia “Mirror Image: A Transformation of Chinese Identity”, curated by Babara Pollack with Han Hongzheng, Asia Society, New York, New York “CHOSEN FAMILY – LESS ALONE TOGETHER”, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland “You can call it love”, Photolux Festival, Lucca, Italy “Focus on Women Photographers”, Foto Wien Festival, Vienna, Austria |
| 2021 | “Eating Sugar? No, Papa!”, L21 Gallery, Palma Islas Baleares, Spain “The Things I Tell You Will Not Be Wrong”, SCOPE Hannover Biennial, Hannover, Germany “Closer”, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong |
| 2020 | “Propositions for Alternative Narratives”, Photoworks Festival, Brighton, UK “Home Sweet Home”, Darmstadt Tage Der Photographie, Darmstadt, Germany “China Reimagined”, curated by He Yining and Ruben Lundgren, Breda Photo, Netherland “The Body Electric” curated by Dr. Shaune Lakin, National Gallery of Australia, Sydney, Australia |
| 2019 | “Holly Mosses” curated by Nick Yu, Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong “Photography in Memphis", Brooks Museum in Memphis, TN “What a Genderful World”, Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands “The Kind Stranger” curated by Xiaodong Yan, UNArt Center, Shanghai, China “Kinship”, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool, UK |
| 2018 | At Home: In the American West, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY San Gennaro Exhibition, Baxter Street Camera Club, New York, NY MUSE MUSE, Czech Center New York, NY Disobedient Daughters, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Pixy Liao, Jimei x Arles International Photo Festiva, Xiamen, China |
| 2017 | NSFW: FEMALE GAZE, Museum of Sex, in collaboration with Vice's Creators Project, New York, NY A New Ballardian Vision, Metro Pictures, New York, NY Socially Engaged, Ernest G. Welch Galleries @ GSU, 2017 ACP Festival, Atalanta, GA Please fasten your seatbelt as we are experiencing some turbulence, Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai, China Lady and Gentleman, Galleri Vasli Souza, Malmö, Sweden |
| 2016 | Out Frames, Museum of Modern Art in Bologna, Bologna, Italy When We Become Us, Capsule Shanghai, Shanghai, China Bagsim, chi K11 Art Museum in Shanghai, Shanghai, China WECHAT - A Dialogue in Contemporary Chinese Art, Asia Society Texas Center, Houston, TX The Real Thing, Flowers Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2015 | No Holds Barred—Young Contemporary Art from China, OPEN ART Biennial, Örebro, Sweden EVIDENCE, FORMAT Festival, Derby, UK |
| 2014 | Double Vision, He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China An Ocean of Possibilities, Noorderlicht Photo Festival, Fries Museum, the Netherlands |
| 2012 | Span of Vision, VT Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan Song of Ordinary Madness, Running Horse Contemporary Art Space, Beirut, Lebanon This Must Be the Place: Contemporary Photography in Memphis, Dixon Gallery, Memphis, TN |
| 2011 | Flash Forward, Magenta, Toronto, Canada "nextkunst.licht", Kunst Licht Gallery, Shanghai, China |
| 2010 | Making the Leap: Crossing Borders, A.I.R Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Irrelevant: Local Emerging Asian Artists Who Don't Make Work About Being Asian, Arario Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2009 | Photography Now 2009, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY |
| 2008 | 4th Wall, 2008 China Pingyao International Photography Fest, Pingyao, China Girl’s Club, L Ross Gallery, Memphis, TN |
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
| Franklin Furnace Archive, Brooklyn, NY |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX |
| He Xiangning Art Museum, Shenzhen, China |
| Fort Wayne Museum of Arts, Fort Wayne, IN |
| Light Work, Syracuse, NY |
| The Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN |
| The Center for Fine Art Photography, Fort Collins, CO |
| The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY |