HU Liwei

Profile

Born in 1994 in China (Chongqing). Lives and works in China (Chongqing)/Netherlands (Amsterdam). Graduated with a MFA in FilM, Video, New Media and Animation from the School of the Art Institute in Chicago in 2018.

Hu Liwei works with moving images. She is a recipient of the Prince Claus Seed Awards in 2023. She has received fellowships and residencies from Art Omi, AIR Taipei, MacDowell, Rijksakademie, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Asia Culture Center.

Recent exhibitions 
2025 “With and Through”, Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam
2025 “Come to Taipei to See the Rain”, Taipei Treasure Hill Artist Village, Taipei
2023 “Raamvertelling +1”, Woonhuis, Amsterdam
2023 “New Harvest II”, Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam
2023 “Moon Vessel”, The Pond Gallery, Chengdu

Awards
2025, AIR, Art Omi, New York, USA
2023, Prince Claus Seed Award, Netherlands
2023, MacDowell Fellowship, Peterborough, NH, USA

About works

I principally work with moving images, but also engaged with installation, radio, and participatory practices. Growing up in a foggy and mountainous city, I developed fantasies of sunshine from tropical islands—an imagined elsewhere that shaped my early sense of displacement. Under the illusion of tropical light, my practice explores liminal states—those in-between places where the dynamics of continuity are complicated and themes of separation, transition, and mobility are examined. Drawing from recipes, memory, housework, and daydreams, my work transforms everyday nuances and historic moments into a real-time stage of rehearsal and performance.