Junyi Liu | Sweet & Hellish
Sweet and Hellish, 2024
Oil on linen
72 × 72 in | 182.9 × 182.9 cm
Junyi Liu is a painter and performance artist based in New York City. She creates whimsical, vibrant scenes with characters in outfits evoking a different historical period, as a way to mirror the violence and oppression in the real world. Her artworks explore the pain, contradictions, and resistance experienced by ordinary people, especially women, under systemic oppression. Born in China, Liu pursued her art education in the U.S. and earned a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art.