YUQI LIU



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My practice centers on papermaking, printmaking, and artist books to explore fiber as both image and language. I treat paper not simply as a surface, but as a living material through which memory, labor, and history can be held. By making my own sheets from plant fibers, fungi, and other organic matter, I create works in which material and meaning are inseparable. Shaped by my engagement with the natural world, women’s history, and overlooked vernacular forms of knowledge, my work moves through cycles of life and death, presence and disappearance, fragility and resilience. My projects with mushrooms and mycelium led me to think about interconnectedness, hidden structures, and the importance of looking closely at what grows in the margins. This thinking later expanded into questions of women’s visibility, erasure, and resistance within historical and contemporary Chinese contexts. I am especially drawn to how women’s speech, testimony, and knowledge are censored, fragmented, or lost, and to forms of writing such as Nüshu that carry memory through intimate, fragile, and ritual structures. Through the gesture of making paper, I seek to call back women who have been erased from history and to assert the strength and persistence of their existence. 

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Education
2026
Rhode Island School of Design, MFA, Printmaking

2024
Parsons School of Design, BFA, Illustration; Minor Printmaking
Honors: Graduated with Honors; Departmental Honors; Dean’s List; Undergraduate Merit Scholarship

Awards and Honors
2026
Chucki Bradbury Art Purchase Award, Delta National Small Prints Exhibition

2025
Takach Press Award, 6th National Monotype/Monoprint Juried Exhibition
Honorable Mention, Baker & Whitehill Student Artists’ Book Contest
Shortlisted, Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair

2023
Finalist, Art Collection Writing Award, Vera List Center for Art and Politics

Exhibitions
2026
Delta National Small Prints Exhibition (DNSPE), Bradbury Art Museum, AR

2025
Planetarity: Friction, Fossils and the Future, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
Made in _, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
6th National Monotype/Monoprint Juried Exhibition, Art Complex Museum, MA
Fungi, BWAC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Animalia, BWAC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

You Don’t Know What I’m Thinking About, Memorial Hall, Providence, RI

2024
Idiosyncratic Printmaking Biennial, Sol Koffler Graduate Gallery, Providence, RI
Parsons Animation Festival, Kellen Auditorium, New York, NY
Parsons Illustration Senior Show, Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Gallery, New York, NY
Earth Day Art Show, Parsons Making Center, New York, NY

2023
AMT Printmaking + Book Arts Exhibition, Parsons Making Center, New York, NY

Teaching
2026
Instructor, Papermaking (Winter Session), Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2025
Workshop Instructor, RISD Family Weekend, Providence, RI
Teaching Assistant, Screenprint, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Teaching Assistant, Letterpress, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2024
Teaching Assistant, Advanced Relief, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

Professional
2025
Apprentice in Traditional Chinese Papermaking, DuoYingXuan, Chaohu, China (Jun–Aug 2025)
  • Studied traditional handmade paper finishing and treatment techniques with National Intangible Cultural Heritage inheritor Liu Jing (刘靖)
  • Designed and produced powdered-wax paper (粉蜡笺) for the Chinese Zodiac Animal project

2024
Designer of Senior Publication 2024, Parsons Illustration, New York, NY

2023–present
Co-Founder & Principal Designer, Yuqi Studio, Hefei, China

Art Fairs
2026
Multiple Formats Art Book Fair, Boston
RISD Unbound Art Book Fair, Providence

2025
Offset Art Book Fair, New York
RISD Unbound Art Book Fair, Providence
Milwaukee Zine Fest, Milwaukee

2024
MoCCA Art Festival, New York
Spitting Image Art Book Fair, New York

Public Collections
Fleet Library Special Collections
New York Public Library, Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division
Peabody Essex Museum
RISD Museum