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Born 1967 Tainan, Taiwan
Honours B.A., Fine Art History, Renaissance Studies, Victoria College, University of Toronto (1990)
M. Arch., Southern California Institute of Architecture (sci-arc), Los Angeles (1995)
Artist in Residence, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2007-8)
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
2022
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014-15
2014
2013
2012
2011
2009
2008
2007
2004
2001
2000
Signal to Noise, Blouin | Division, Toronto
Low Fidelity, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles
La Durée, Galerie Division, Montréal
NEW LIFE, Fundación Marso, Mexico City
La Durée, Division Gallery, Toronto
Transmission, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles
Naine Blanche, Musée d’art de Joliette
Des bribes et des morceaux, Galerie Division, Montréal
Solid States, The Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada (MOCA) at the Toronto Sculpture Garden
In Absentia, Southern Alberta Art Gallery (SAAG), Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (KWAG), and
the Art Gallery of Grande Prairie (AGGP)
The Knowing Nothing of the Thing, Art Labor Gallery, Shanghai (cat.)
MONO NO MA, Gardiner Museum, Toronto (cat.)
Recodings, Bulthaup, Toronto
BLAST, Allen Lambert Galleria, Brookfield Place, Toronto
Lost in Transaction, No. 9 Contemporary Art at Pearson Airport, Toronto
BLAST, Michael Klein Gallery, Toronto
Pook X Pookie, SCI–Arc Gallery, Los Angeles
Matter, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Style and Epoch, Michael Klein Gallery, Toronto
Ether, The News at Five, Toronto International Art Fair
Tackiness and Anti–Power, Artists Space, New York
Ether, Mercer Union, Toronto
Condition, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York
Pathology, Contemporary Art Gallery (cag), Vancouver
Group Exhibitions (selected)
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
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2003
Le temps passe lentement, Galerie Blouin | Division, Montréal
Strike Fast, Dance Lightly: Artists on Boxing, The Church, Sag Harbor
Moving: Expressibe Bodies in Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Conversations Masterworks, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg
Good Company: The Remix, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles
Dérive, Galerie Blouin | Division, Montréal
Alejandro Cardenas / An Te Liu, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles
Staycation, Anat Ebgi Gallery, Los Angeles
New Monuments for New Cities, The Bentway / High Line Network, Toronto / New York
The Conversation, Minnesota Street Project, San Francisco
Nothing Stable Under Heaven, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (sfmoma)
The House Imaginary, San Jose Museum of Art
Aéroports / Ville Monde, La Gaïté Lyrique, Paris
The Preservationists, Duddell’s, Hong Kong
Terminal P, La Panacée, Montpellier
The Blur in Between, Art Gallery of Alberta (aga), Edmonton
Shine a Light: 2014 Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (cat.)
Suburbia—A Model Life, Art Gallery of Alberta (aga), Edmonton
Der Brancusi Effekt, Kunsthalle Vienna (cat.)
Casting The Negative, Daniel Faria Gallery, Toronto
Airport Landscape, Harvard GSD, Cambridge MA
To Be Small or To Have Presents, Stichtung SEA Foundation, Tilburg
Museum for the End of the World, Nuit Blanche 2012, Toronto
Local Color, San Jose Museum of Art
The More Things Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (sfmoma)
Hyper Spaces, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
Empire of Dreams, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (mocca), Toronto (cat.)
Out of Site, Nuit Blanche, Toronto
The Leona Drive Project, Willowdale (cat.)
EVA International—Ireland Biennial of Contemporary Art, Limerick (cat.)
Fremtidens arkitektur er grøn!, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk (cat.)
11th Venice Biennale of Architecture—Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, Venice (cat.)
Hier ist Amerika oder Nirgends, Galerie Ben Kaufmann / Art Berlin Contemporary (abc), Berlin (cat.)
Figuration in Contemporary Design, Art Institute of Chicago (cat.)
Modelle für Morgen: Köln, European Kunsthalle, Cologne
Paradox Practice: Architecture in the Wake of Conceptualism, UCI Art Gallery, Irvine (cat.)
Street, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
Sense of the City, Centre Canadien d’Architecture (cca), Montréal (cat.)
Therefore Beautiful, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal (cat.)
Re: Building the World, Edmonton Art Gallery
A.C., Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
Domestic Odyssey, San Jose Museum of Art (cat.)
mosaiCanada: Sign and Sound, Seoul Museum of Art (sema) (cat.)
Rethinking Photography IV: New Reduction as Expansion, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg
COMMISSIONED AND AWARDED PUBLIC PROJECTS
2023
2020
2019
2019
2017
The Idea of An Island, Lendrum Fine Art / Mitsui Fudosan, Los Angeles
MIXER, Oxford Properties Group / Park Hyatt Hotel, Toronto
Leaders of Men and The Gift, de Pury de Pury (London/Zurich) / Waldorf Astoria, New York
Tropos, PAM / Concord Adex, Ethennonnhawahstihnen' Park, North York
All Together Now, Kensington Market Lofts, Toronto
BIBLIOGRAPHY
MONOGRAPHS AND CATALOGUES OF SOLO EXHIBITIONS
An Te Liu. London: Black Dog Publishing, 2015. With texts by Kitty Scott, Andrew Berardini, Pablo Larios, and Ken Lum.
An Te Liu—The Knowing Nothing of the Thing. Shanghai: Art Labor, 2014. With text by Daniel Ho.
MONO NO MA. Toronto: Gardiner Museum, 2013. With text by Michael Prokopow.
Matter. Berlin: Künstlerhaus Bethanien, 2008–09. With texts by Vanessa Joan Müller, Astrid Mania, Nicolaus Schafhausen.
CATALOGUES OF GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SURVEYS (selected)
Ellen Mara De Wachter: An Te Liu, in Vitamin C: Clay and Ceramic in Contemporary Art (Louis Elderton and Rebecca Morrill, eds.), London: Phaidon Press, 2017.
Vanessa Joan Müller, Nicolaus Schafhausen, eds.: The Brancusi Effekt: An Archival Impulse. Berlin: Sternberg Press & Kunsthalle Wien, 2015.
Josée Drouin-Brisebois, Greg Hill, Andrea Kunard, Jonathan Shaughnessy and Rhiannon Vogl: Shine a Light / Surgir de l’ombre: La Biennale Canadienne 2014. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 2014.
Yilmaz Dziewior and Angelika Nollert: EVA 2009 Biennial of Visual Art. Cork: Gandon Editions, 2009.
Kjeld Kjeldsen and Michael Juul Holm, eds.: Fremtidens arkitektur er grøn!. Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2009.
Aaron Betsky: Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, 11th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. Venice: Marsilio, 2008.
Joseph Rosa: Reimagining the Ornamental, Figuration in Contemporary Design. Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2008.
Julie Carson and Nana Last, eds.: Paradox Practice: Architecture in the Wake of Conceptualism. Irvine: UC Irvine, 2007.
Mirko Zardini, ed.: Sense of the City: An Alternative Approach to Urbanism. Baden: CCA and Lars Müller, 2005.
Vanessa Müller: Therefore Beautiful. Kraichtal: Ursula Blickle Stiftung, 2005.
JoAnne Northrup: Domestic Odyssey. San Jose: San Jose Museum of Art, 2004.
ARTICLES, ESSAYS AND REVIEWS (selected)
Dan Adler: An Te Liu, Artforum, March 2019, p. 234.
Nicolas Mavrikakis: La sculpture en question à la galerie Division, Le Devoir, 16 février, 2019.
Darryn Doull: An Te Liu—A Sheaf of Times, 2018. (exh. essay)
Nick Yu: The Preservationists, ArtAsiaPacific, March 21, 2018.
Christina Martinez: Critics’ Picks—An Te Liu, Artforum, June 23, 2017.
Jennifer S. Li: An Te Liu—Transmission, ArtAsiaPacific, Issue 105, September / October 2017, p. 150.
Travis Diehl: An Te Liu—Transmission, Art Papers, Fall 2017, p. 64.
Andrew Berardini: An Te Liu—Transmission, ArtReview, September 2017, p. 139.
Leah Ollman: Lasting forms for modern life’s castoffs, Los Angeles Times, July 12, 2017, p. E3.
Ryan Walker: Casting Shadows—An Te Liu, The Globe and Mail / Wandereur, No. 151, 2016.
Kristy Trinier: The Blur in Between. Edmonton: Art Gallery of Alberta, 2016. (exh. essay)
Shannon Anderson: An Te Liu––Tradition and the Historical Sense. cmagazine, Spring 2015, p. 32-37.
James Adams: Back to the garden of sculptures, The Globe and Mail, October 2, 2015.
Murray Whyte: An Te Liu––Turning Trash Into Treasure, The Toronto Star, December 19, 2015.
J. Lynn Fraser: An Te Liu—Gardiner Museum, Sculpture, Vol. 33 No. 3, April 2014.
Matthew Ryan Smith: Casting the Negative, Magenta Magazine, May 2014.
Collections (selected)
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Art Institute of Chicago
San Jose Museum of Art
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
The Glenbow Museum, Calgary
Gardiner Museum, Toronto
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Bank of Montréal Collection
Waldorf Astoria Hotel, New York
McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg
Toronto Dominion Bank Collection
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
Oceana Bal Harbour
The Glass House, New Canaan
Claridge Collection, Montréal
Telus Collection, Calgary