Biography
Yuxin Liu was born in 1999 in China. Since 2017, she has been studying, living, and working in Canada. In 2019, she pursued a Bachelor's degree in Arts Management from Bishop’s University, with an expected graduation in spring 2025. In 2021, she obtained a Bachelor's degree in Ceramics from Concordia University, anticipated to graduate in May 2024. After founding No Ideas. company in 2023, Yuxin began creating fiber art rugs and delved into Beading Art, working at Nico Williams Studio.
As a person of color, a new immigrant, and a queer female artist, Yuxin uses the "conflict of cultures" and mischievous childhood experiences in her hometown as the cornerstone of her creativity. Having left home at a young age, she seeks to find connections to her roots and childhood memories of soil and homeland. She explores the cultural heterogeneity and misunderstandings sparked by semantic and linguistic collisions in everyday life, enriching her artistic practice with these experiences. She is dedicated to unearthing the blurred connections between the familiar and the unfamiliar, dreams, and memories, challenging mainstream narratives about beauty, value, death, and knowledge.
In Yuxin's works, soil is transformed and delicately treated. She excels in coil-building, slab construction, and creating large-scale ceramic sculptures. Her primary artistic language revolves around the contemplation and exploration of ephemeral clouds, time, death, and rebirth. The recurrent motif of clouds symbolizes her exploration of her identity as a ceramic artist and her journey of growth.
As a person of color, a new immigrant, and a queer female artist, Yuxin uses the "conflict of cultures" and mischievous childhood experiences in her hometown as the cornerstone of her creativity. Having left home at a young age, she seeks to find connections to her roots and childhood memories of soil and homeland. She explores the cultural heterogeneity and misunderstandings sparked by semantic and linguistic collisions in everyday life, enriching her artistic practice with these experiences. She is dedicated to unearthing the blurred connections between the familiar and the unfamiliar, dreams, and memories, challenging mainstream narratives about beauty, value, death, and knowledge.
In Yuxin's works, soil is transformed and delicately treated. She excels in coil-building, slab construction, and creating large-scale ceramic sculptures. Her primary artistic language revolves around the contemplation and exploration of ephemeral clouds, time, death, and rebirth. The recurrent motif of clouds symbolizes her exploration of her identity as a ceramic artist and her journey of growth.