Katherine Chang Liu grew up in Taiwan, and received her MS degree from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Virginia Commission of Arts and Humanities.
Liu had 43 solo exhibitions; at US galleries and community museums in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Santa Fe (New Mexico); as well as galleries in Copenhagen (Denmark), Lyon (France), Rome (Italy), Turku (Finland), Hong Kong and Taiwan.
In the early part of her career, Liu was more active in competitive exhibits, winning 45 awards.
She has since been invited to serve as juror or co-juror for over 86 national, regional and state-wide art competitions, including the 2018 Wisconsin Biennial at the Museum of Wisconsin Art.
Katherine Chang Liu has exhibited in over 100 invitational exhibits, and was included in the Chicago Navy Pier Show, Art Miami, Art Paris, Art Copenhagen, Art Santa Fe, and the Los Angeles Art Show.
In recent years she also exhibited in international invitationals in Korea, Macau, Hong Kong, China, Thailand and Singapore.
Her work has been featured in 105 magazine and newspaper articles, as well as 40 books.
Katherine’s work is in over 1100 Public, corporate and private collections. Public collections include the Virginia Museum; the Chrysler Museum of Art (VA); Palm Springs Desert Museum (CA); Western VA Museum (VA); City of Thousand Oaks (CA); City of Ventura (CA); State Collection of Baja; the Art Association of Aga, Finland; Musée de la Communication, Bern, Switzerland and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France. US Department of State; Hickory Art Museum (NC); Macau Museum of Art (Macau); Utah State University Harrison Museum; Georgetown University; Center for Employment Law; Virginia Tech University; and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.