Jawshing Arthur Liou (b.1968) currently lives and works in USA. 

Jawshing Arthur Liou is an artist with a background in photography, digital media, film, and journalism. His recent projects include a pilgrimage in the sacred mountains in Tibet, a journey through the tsunami-ravaged coastline of Japan, and a cinematic collaboration with a brain scientist regarding the connection between endocannabinoids and memory. Liou works with lens-based materials and electronic imaging to create installations depicting mental and surreal spaces. Many of his videos do not contain clear narratives but are meditative in nature, allowing time to slow to a ruminative pace while spatial scales oscillate between the microcosmic and infinitely expansive. Using sources ranging from landscapes and oil paint to human body, much of Liou’s work is related to notions of impermanence, human tragedy, and spiritual sanctuary.

Liou earned his Bachelor’s degree in Journalism from National Chengchi University in Taiwan in 1990 and began his career as a video journalist. He moved to the United States to pursue graduate studies in art and received his MFA in Photography and Electronic Intermedia from the University of Florida in 1998. He was selected as a member of the National Graduate Seminar in American Photography Institution in New York in 1997. During his time in Florida, he studied under renowned surrealist photographers Jerry Uelsmann and Evon Streetman. His artistic practice deepened to incorporate conceptual exploration of simulacra, cultural memory, and human-technology relationship while his work expanded into installation and video art.

In 1999, Professor Liou joined the faculty at Indiana University Bloomington, where he served as Chair of the Department of Studio Art and Associate Dean of the Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design. He was honored with the university’s prestigious Herman B. Wells Professorship. Liou currently serves as Dean of the Geer College of the Arts at Kennesaw State University.

Liou has participated in many important exhibitions, festivals and biennials, including: “Whispers from the Divide”, Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.(US, 2024); “Human-Cannabis、Jigoku、Singing Winds”, Chi-Wen Gallery (TW, 2022);  “The world began without the human race and it will end without it”, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Art, Taichung (TW, 2021);  “House of the Singing Winds”, Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art, Bloomington (US, 2020); “Rituals of Signs and Metamorphosis”, Red Brick Art Museum, Beijing (CN, 2019); “Scared Spaces: The Road To…”, the Rubin Museum of Art, New York City (US, 2018); “State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now”, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis (US, 2016); The 12th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah (UAE, 2015); SeMA Biennale Mediacity, Seoul (KR, 2014); “State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now”, Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville, Arkansas (US, 2014); “TRUE COLORS”, the 6th Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions, Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP, 2014); “Sacred Sojourn”, Taipei Fine Arts Museum (TW, 2014); “Sonnet 27”, Chi-Wen Gallery (TW, 2014); “Sonnet 27”, SiTE:LAB, Grand Rapids, Michigan (US, 2013).