About

Emilie Liu (b. 1986, Taipei) is a Brooklyn-based queer visual artist working between emoji-like, minimalist dog portraits, cropped close, and abstractions drawn from the rhythms of nature. Through color and texture she explores feeling, language, and belonging. The dog figure comes from her own dog, Jupiter: a body that carries no gender or race for a viewer to read, so the feeling arrives first. Drawing on Jungian psychology, in which water is the oldest image of the unconscious, and on a Taiwanese childhood in which feelings went unnamed, her recent paintings extend beyond the figure to the flow of water and air. Each painting holds what she could not say out loud.

Liu has exhibited at Chinatown Soup, Van Der Plas Gallery, Yun Hai, and the School of Visual Arts Gallery in New York, and in a 2026 group exhibition in Taipei that she co-curated. She holds an MFA in Computer Arts from the School of Visual Arts, New York (2012) and a BFA in Advertising from National Chengchi University, Taipei (2010). Before painting full time, Liu spent over a decade as a senior visual designer and art director at Google, Meta, and motion graphics production companies, with commercial work broadcast internationally. She lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.