Jayden Liu (b. Taichung, Taiwan) is a Brooklyn-based artist whose practice focuses on how human behavior and consciousness operate within a vast world machine. He understands the rules of the world as having already been inscribed by history, politics, and culture, while individuals act within preconfigured structures, executing what is called freedom only within permitted limits, thereby allowing the world machine to continue functioning. 

Liu frequently casts everyday objects into unfamiliar forms, tightening or loosening the direct relationship between an object and its original use, historical narrative, and emotional memory. The works invite viewers to encounter these objects outside of functional logic, revealing the complexity and multiplicity embedded within a single form.

With a background in theater, Liu has developed a sustained interest in how actions are choreographed and how roles are generated within systems. Integrating performance practices from contemporary art with theatrical structures, his work employs sound, scenography, and bodily presence to explore how behavior is reshaped, transformed, or temporarily rendered inoperative under the conditions of the world machine.


Born in Taichung, Taiwan
Based in New York
@jhliuu
jaydenliu.studio@gmail.com


EDUCATION2026M.F.A Fine Arts
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY.
2023B.A. Drama and Theater
National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.


GROUP EXHIBITIONS2026Chipped Teeth & Empty Bellies
Arnold and Sheila Aronson Galleries, New York, NY.

Future Forward
Fugue Gallery, New York, NY.

2025Common Ground
25 East Gallery, New York, NY.

2024To Continue Being Alive
25 East Gallery, New York, NY.


PERFORMANCE ARTS2024Andre’s House
Cast, Tainaner Ensemble
Experimental Theater of National Theater, Taipei, Taiwan

2023Reality No-Show
Assistant projection designer, Tainaner Ensemble
National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Reality No-Show
Assistant projection designer, Tainaner Ensemble
Taipei Performing Arts Center, Taipei, Taiwan

Long Live the Mango Tree
Cast, GOATY Ensemble
University Café, Taipei, Taiwan

Things to Do at a Trial When You’re Innocent
Cast, GOATY Ensemble
Mononi Art Venue, Taipei, Taiwan

2022Unschuld
Cast, Dept. of Drama and Theater at NTU
National Taiwan Arts Education Center, Taipei, Taiwan

The Arabian Nights
Cast, Dept. of Drama and Theater at NTU
National Taiwan Arts Education Center, Taipei, Taiwan


TEACHING AND RESEARCH2026Studio and Research Assistant to H. Lan Thao Lam

Sculptures for Non-Majors, Parsons School of Design,
Teaching Assistant to Charles Goldman

2025Core Studio 1: 3D, Parsons School of Design,
Teaching Assistant to Miggy Buck

Sculpture, Parsons School of Design,
Teaching Assistant to Charles Goldman