
Detail of site specific installation at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art
Medium: charcoal, collage, gesso on canvas, graphite, fixative spray, sanded debris, and monotype on eight BFK papers, dimensions variable (courtesy of the artist. photo © 2022 the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art)

Detail of site specific installation at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art.
Medium: charcoal, collage, gesso on canvas, graphite, fixative spray, sanded debris, and monotype on eight BFK papers, dimensions variable (courtesy of the artist. photo © 2022 the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art)

installation view, Charlotte Street Foundation Fellows · 2020, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas. Photo: EG Schempf

流年 <liú nián> , oil on panels, 120”x180”, 2022
Charlotte Street Foundation Fellows · 2020, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas. Photo: EG Schempf

Kathy Liao installation view, Charlotte Street Foundation Fellows · 2020, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas. Photo: EG Schempf

2018, Collage, ink, charcoal, gesso, litho crayon, and pencil on paper, 115”x168”
Charlotte Street Foundation Fellows · 2020, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas. Photo: EG Schempf

2018, Collage, ink, charcoal, gesso, litho crayon, and pencil on paper, 115”x168”
(Studio shot, scale reference)

Kathy Liao installation view, Charlotte Street Foundation Fellows · 2020, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas. Photo: EG Schempf

Kathy Liao installation view, Returning/Belonging, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St Joseph, MO. Photo: EG Schempf

Kathy Liao installation view, Returning / Belonging, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St Joseph, MO. Photo: EG Schempf

2020, Collage, woodcut prints, litho touche, and oil on paper, 72”x75”

2019, Oil on canvas, 40”x36”
2019, Collage, marker, color pencil and gouache on paper, 30”x34”

2019, oil on canvas, 48”x48”













My recent paintings and wall drawing installations document the fluid state between experience, memory, and place.
My family is very much part of me, and I find comfort in patterns and rituals that weaved through the way my family interacts, from a long distance. I think about the layers of memories pass down through generation. My grandmother’s memories, overlapped through my mother’s retelling of her stories, layered with my very own lived experience. We can’t separate our perception of the RIGHT NOW from our past generational history to our envisioning of the future.