Pixy Liao is an artist from Shanghai, China, who is based in Tokyo. She was born in Shanghai in 1979. In 2008 she received an MFA in photography from the University of Memphis.
Her work has been shown at the Art Institute of Chicago, Fotografiska, Rencontres d'Arles, the Asia Society and the National Gallery of Australia. She is a Guggenheim Fellow. She has also received the NYFA Fellowship in Photography, the Santo Foundation Individual Artist Award and the Madame Figaro Women Photographers Award.
In her project Dynamic Duo Furniture she and her partner Moro use their bodies as chairs, tables and other household objects. The project was born out of lockdown. She shot it in a large, empty hall during her Light Work residency. It was first presented in ArtReview Asia as a series of fake furniture advertisements.
