Caroline Ellen Liou (she/her) is a doctoral candidate in the Department of History of Art and Architecture at the University of Pittsburgh.
Over the last decade, she has worked across the contemporary art world , including as Curator at the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Italy and Curatorial Associate at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (ICA LA), where she curated the first solo institutional exhibition of Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork. Most recently, she co-curated, with Jennifer Doyle and Jeanne Vaccaro, CAREROTICS: on giving and taking, a solo exhibition of Panteha Abareshi at Human Resources, Los Angeles.
Her writing has appeared in the exhibition catalogues for Scratching at the Moon, Scientia Sexualis (both ICA LA), and Christine Sun Kim: DRAW A BLANK (Secession, Vienna), as well as publications such as Burlington Contemporary, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (CARLA), and Hyperallergic, where she served as editor.
She graduated with a BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MA in Contemporary Chinese Art and Geopolitics from the Courtauld Institute of Art.
- MA, Contemporary Chinese Art and Geopolitics, Courtauld Institute of Art
- BFA, Painting, Rhode Island School of Design
