Ani Liu

Ani Liu is a research-based artist working at the intersection of art & science. Her work examines the reciprocal relationships between science, technology and their influence on human subjectivity, culture, and identity. 

Ani's work has been presented internationally, including the forthcoming Venice Biennale, Ars Electronica, the Queens Museum Biennial, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Asian Art Museum, MIT Museum, MIT Media Lab, Mana Contemporary, Harvard University, and Shenzhen Design Society. She has been featured on National Geographic, VICE, Mashable, Gizmodo, TED, Core77, PBS, PCMag, FOX and WIRED.  

She is the winner of the Princeton Arts Fellowship (2019-2021), Groot Foundation Award (2020), the S&R Washington Prize (2019), the YouFab Global Creative Awards (2018), the Biological Art & Design Award (2017).  Ani has a B.A. from Dartmouth College, a Masters of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Master of Science from MIT Media Lab. 

She is passionate about integrating multidisciplinary approaches to art making, and is currently teaching at Princeton University. Ani continually seeks to discover the unexpected, through playful experimentation, intuition, and speculative storytelling.  Her studio is based in New York City. 

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