Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao廖健行http://www.jeffchienhsingliao.com/
“Habitat 7" limited edition book
Artist Proof 2/2
Comes with a clam shell box and a 10x24" digital print of "5 Pointz" photography
Book with Essay of Tom Finkelpearl
JEFF CHIEN-HSING LIAO
JEFF CHIEN-HSING LIAO (b. 1977 Taiwan) emigrated to the U.S. in 1999 at the age of 18, where he immediately took residence in Queens in close proximity to the 7 line, dubbed by the Department of City Planning as the “International Express.” He earned an MFA from the School of Visual Arts and a BFA from the Pratt Institute. Liao’s renowned Habitat 7 Series, for which he received critical acclaim, stemmed from his master’s thesis at SVA. Taken over the course of two years, Liao depicted the ethnic diversity of the communities along the 7 train subway line on its seven mile route from Manhattan to Flushing. As a winner of the New York Times Magazine “Capture the Times” photography contest in 2005, this major debut cemented his status as a prominent photographer. Liao’s work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and can be found in the permanent collections of several institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; Queens Museum and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York; J. Paul Getty Museum; George Eastman House-International Museum of Photography and Film; the Norton Museum of Art; and Deutsche Bank. His first monograph, Habitat 7, was published by Nazraeli Press in 2008 and his second monograph, Coney Island, was published in 2013. Currently, Liao is working with Aperture for his next major book, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao: New York. Liao currently lives and works in New York.
Education
2003 Pratt Institute of Art and Design, Brooklyn, NY B.F.A. Photography
2005 School of Visual Art, New York, NY M.F.A. Photography and Related Media
Selected Solo exhibitions
2014 Upcoming, “Five Boroughs” , Museum of City of New York
2013 “New York City Building Time Lapse, 2009 – 2013”, Queens Museum of Art.
2013 MTA Arts for Transit: Atlantic Avenue Light box project Greetings from Coney Island.
2012Widely Different: New York City Panorama,
South Street Seaport Museum (Two person)
2011 MTA Arts for Transit: Light box project 7 X 7: Views Along the 7 Line
2011 The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation, NY
2010 “Urban Panoramas” J. Paul Getty Museum, CA (Three Person show)
2010BQMB Julie Saul Gallery, NY
2010 Kentucky Art Museum, KY
2009 “Grand Concourse at 100” Bronx Museum of Art, NY
2009 “Habitat 7” Citibank, Long Island City, NY
2008 Houston Center of Photography, 2008 FOTOFEST, Houston TX
2008 Crane Kalman Brighton, UK
2007 Habitat 7, Bulova Corporate Center, NY
2006 Habitat 7, Queens Museum of Art, NY
2006 Habitat 7, Julie Saul Gallery, NY
2003 Nature / Nurture, Steuben Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2014 Upcoming, Singapore Art Museum
2014 Of Time and Buildings, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
2013 A Beautiful Way to Go: New York's Green-Wood Cemetery,
Museum of City of New York
2013After Photoshop: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX
2013 0 to 60: The Experience of Time through Contemporary Art,
North Carolina Museum of Art
2012 SVA Alumni Show 'Myths & Realities' by Kathy Ryan and Scott Thode, SVA Gallery
2012 From Farm to City: Staten Island, Museum of City of New York
2011 “New York, New York! The 20th Century”, Katonah Museum of Art
2011 25 Years/25 Artists, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
2008 Rethinking Landscape: Photography from the Allen G. Thomas Jr. Collection,
Taubman Museum of Art, VA
2008 Kinz, Tillou + Feigen, NY
2007 Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles
2007 Vital Signs: Place, George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
2007 Big Picture, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
2007 CHINA seen by..., University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
2006 Depth of Field, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY
2006 Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2005 See What I Mean, Visual Art Gallery, NY
2004 Nexus: Taiwan in Queens, Queens Museum of Art, NY
Awards
New York Times Magazine 2nd Annual 2005 "Capture The Times" Winner
Photo District News, New Photographers to Watch, PDN 30
George Eastman House, Emerging Icon in Photography Award 2012
Collections
The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Citibank Collection, Long Island City, NY
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Deutsche Bank Collection, New York, NY
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
JGS Howard Stein Collection
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
The Pilara Foundation Collection
Queens Museum of Art, NY
Rose Museum at Brandeis University, MA
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Yeshiva University, New York, NY
Museum of City of New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Allen G. Thomas Jr. Collection, Wilson, NC