Jiayu Liu (b. 1990, Liaoning, China) is a Beijing-based media artist known for her immersive media installations. Over a decade of practice has led her to experiment with a wide array of art forms and media, ranging from site-specific light and sculptural work to 3D projection mapping, mobile media, mixed realities, AI, and beyond. These endeavors result in evocative, sensory, and often monumental installations that bear a distinctive imprint of Chinese artistic expression, infused with the imagery of the natural environment.

Jiayu's engagement with data is another facet of her artistic exploration. She grapples with the seemingly cold and foreboding world of environmental data and statistics, rendering it tangible and relevant to both our environment and ourselves. In Jiayu’s work, the natural world is recreated and augmented to serve as a vehicle for exploring human responses to their emphasized relationships with nature and the lived environment. Her unique sensibility gives rise to soft, immersive spaces that envelop us, almost as if in a warm embrace, forging unexpected connections with nature and natural phenomena.

Jiayu Liu has exhibited internationally in many museums, including the V&A in London; K11 Art Space; K11 MUSEA in Hong Kong; He Xiangning Museum; Guan Shanyue Museum; SWCAC in Shenzhen; CAFA Museum; Times Museum; Today Art Museum; Riverside Museum; UCCA Lab in Beijing; Power Long Museum; OCAT; MOCA; and UCCA Edge in Shanghai. Jiayu has also shown work in fairs, such as London Design Festival; Kinetica Art Fair London; London Fashion Week; Chengdu Biennial; Wuhan Biennial; Jinan Biennial; Beijing Media Art Biennial; and Guangzhou Triennial. In 2022, Jiayu was selected to display work in the Chinese Pavilion for the 59th Venice Biennale. Jiayu has collaborated with the luxury brands BVLGARI, Burberry, Longines, Lancôme, Polar star. She has done public art commissions for the organizations World Wildlife Fund, Green Peace, and Invisible Dust UK.