Marcia Liu is a Shanghai-born artist based in Rochester, New York, working across sculpture and printmaking. Her practice explores how emotional and psychological conditions can be sustained through provisional structural relationships.

Her sculptural work engages with discarded industrial materials, including aged pipes, plastics, and salvaged metal, which she reassembles into unstable configurations. These structures remain visibly unresolved, held together through improvised and contingent points of support, where stability emerges through adjustment rather than permanence.

Her printmaking, primarily in monotype, examines similar concerns through layered spatial constructions. Architectural fragments, linear frameworks, and abstract forms accumulate across compressed visual space, reflecting how memory and perception are continuously reorganized rather than fixed.

2026

（upcoming）

The Biennial Project Biennial 2026 at the Venice Biennale, The Biennial Project

Arts to Hearts Magazine Issue 12 — International juried open call, Arts To Hearts Project

2025

Vignelli Canon, Beyond Fashion 2025, Rochester, NY

At Work, The Yards Art Collective, Rochester, NY

Fashion Week of Rochester 2025, Rochester, NY

The Contemporary Print 2025, PrintAustin Collective, Austin, TX

2024

On The Table, Beyond Fashion 2024, Rochester, NY

Bind, Bond, Boom, The Yard Collective, Rochester, NY

Fashion Week of Rochester 2024, Rochester, NY

My, My, Tiger’s Eye, Flower City Arts Center, Rochester, NY.

Al-Tiba9 Contemporary Art Magazine, ISSUE15, Barcelona, Spain

2023

Interview by Artsin Square Magazine, Edition 5 of print and digital.

11th Annual International Juried Print Exhibition, Remarque Print Workshop, Albuquerque, NM.

Biafarin Awards 2023, Biafarin, Canada

Scenic - 2023 (3rd Annual Exhibition and Promotion), Exhibizone, Canada.

Artistonish - October 2023 - Issue #39, Publisher: Discover the Artist, Vancouver, Canada.

MAGIX 2023 (2nd Annual Exhibition and Promotion), Exhibizone, Canada

2022

RIT’s Signatures Art & Literary Magazine, Volume 37.

2021

2021 Women in Art, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Online Exhibition

2020

Visible Voices, RIT city space

Artist Interview: Marcia Liu, RIT City Art Space's Artist Short Sesh by John Aäsp

2019

MFA Thesis Show, Bevier Gallery

ART OUT, Bevier Gallery; ( Sculpture "The end of the old wound" won the price)

Life is a Journey, Bridge Art Gallery

2018

6x6x2018 - The International Small Art Phenomenon, Rochester Contemporary Art Center

Ephemeral Entities, William Harris Gallery

• 2018 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts/Art Schools Collaborative, September

• 2019 Haystack Mountain School of Crafts/Art Schools Collaborative, October

MFA in Metals and Jewelry Design, Rochester Institute of Technology, Current

MFA in Fine Arts Studio, Rochester Institute of Technology, 2024

BFA in Printmaking, Shanghai University, 2013