Rachel Liu (b. Qingdao, China) is a visual artist based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work examines the dichotomy between photography's indexical and evidentiary nature, and its resistance and limitation to becoming trustworthy documents. The inherent paradoxical nature of the medium has informed many aspects of her practice.
Rachel Liu is the recipient of several prestigious awards. Most recently, she was awarded 1st Place Single Image Winner of LensCulture's inaugural Art Photography Award 2018. In the same year, she was also selected as one of twelve artists at Root Division's juried exhibition showcasing emerging talents and cutting edge art of the San Francisco Bay Area. Her work has been featured on Aint-Bad, Photography of China, Fortune, AYE Mag, and LensCulture.
Rachel received her MFA degree in Photography in 2015. Selected grant and residencies include Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, and Vermont Studio Center.
Before Silicon Valley was a TV show or a byword for success and innovation—it was a landscape. These contemplative photos mix past, present and future, allowing us to see through the furiously changing cycles of the moment—and thus with greater stillness and clarity.
