Katherine Ka Yi Liu 廖加怡
b. 1989/1828/1839/2698 B.C., Los Angeles, USA
he/she/they

Katherine mostly grew up in Hong Kong, China. Their research roots in observing the social transformation of the city from a British colony to a post-colonial state. Their work lingers between ancestral thinking, spirituality & healing. Lately, they are fascinated by the possibility of repurposing ancestral knowledge into contemporary culture.

Striving as a multidimensional creative practitioner, they contemplate notions of the cultural, socio-politics, socio-linguistic construction & diasporic identities through their lived, chronically ill, neurodiverse & queer Chinese experience(s). As a survival mechanism, they confront toxic heteronormativity, white supremacy, institutionalised discrimination & dysfunctional health care system with humour. They unearth their learnings through their work poetically in manifesting, writing, sculpting, curating, film + sound-making & performing. Their practice is determinedly committed to make fun of the invisible problematic(s) in our current existing cis-hetero-patriarchal-capitalistic-ableist system.

Katherine was a former committee member (2018 – 2020) at Transmission Gallery, Glasgow. They were selected for Creative Lab Residencies at CCA, Glasgow in 2020. Their first solo exhibition was selected for Satellite Programme 2021 at Collective, Edinburgh, supported by Hope Scott Trust & Cove Park’s Visual Arts Residency 2021. They were a commissioned Curator for Glasgow International 2021. They guest curated a group exhibition of 6 artists, breathe, spirit & life 呼吸、靈魂與生命 (Oct 2022 - Jan 2023) at the Bluecoat, Liverpool which was supported by The John Ellerman Foundation & The Foyle Foundation. 

Katherine is 1/7 of the Committee Members (hybrid work) of Liverpool East & South East Asian Network & 1/5 of Haus of Chan - an Asian Performance Collective which was selected to perform at the Liverpool Vogue Ball 2022 & 2023. Recently, they were commissioned to perform in a new moving image work, Wah Yen by Wei Zhang for Glasgow International 2024.