Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao was born in Taiwan in 1977, and immigrated to the Queens, New York in 1999 at the age of 22. Liao’s renowned Habitat 7 series; which won the "Capture the Times" photography contest award in New York Times Magazine in 2005; stemmed from his master’s thesis at SVA. Taken over the course of two years, Liao depicted the ethnic diversity of the communities along the 7 train subway line on its seven-mile route from Manhattan to Flushing. Interested in depicting the city as a constantly changing organism, Liao has researched and documented the social landscape and complex chemistry of New York City for more than a decade. Over the years he has transitioned from large format film to digital photography, perfecting his method of stitching together several exposures to create one continuous panoramic image that vividly reflected the photographer’s observations that day. Liao has extensively photographed the five boroughs, including projects such as Depth of Fields, Grand Concourse (commissioned by the Bronx Museum of Art), and Coney Island, all of which will be included in his latest solo exhibition at the Museum of City of New York.
In 2012, Liao was granted the Emerging Icon in Photography …
Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao was born in Taiwan in 1977, and immigrated to the Queens, New York in 1999 at the age of 22. Liao’s renowned Habitat 7 series; which won the "Capture the Times" photography contest award in New York Times Magazine in 2005; stemmed from his master’s thesis at SVA. Taken over the course of two years, Liao depicted the ethnic diversity of the communities along the 7 train subway line on its seven-mile route from Manhattan to Flushing. Interested in depicting the city as a constantly changing organism, Liao has researched and documented the social landscape and complex chemistry of New York City for more than a decade. Over the years he has transitioned from large format film to digital photography, perfecting his method of stitching together several exposures to create one continuous panoramic image that vividly reflected the photographer’s observations that day. Liao has extensively photographed the five boroughs, including projects such as Depth of Fields, Grand Concourse (commissioned by the Bronx Museum of Art), and Coney Island, all of which will be included in his latest solo exhibition at the Museum of City of New York.
In 2012, Liao was granted the Emerging Icon in Photography Award from George Eastman House. His work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions, and can be found in the permanent collections of several institutions such as the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston; Queens Museum, NY; Brooklyn Museum, NY; J. Paul Getty Museum, LA; George Eastman House-International Museum of Photography and Film, NY; the Norton Museum of Art, FL; JGS Howard Stein Collection, NY; The Pilara Foundation Collection, SF; Allen G. Thomas Jr. Collection, NC; and Deutsche Bank art collection. His first monograph, Habitat 7, essay by Anne W. Tucker, was published in 2008 by Nazraeli Press, which also published his second monograph, Coney Island, in 2013. 2014 October, Aperture Foundation published his third monograph, Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao: New York, encompassing his work in New York for the past 10 years.Liao has lectured on his work and process at several institutes, including International Center of Photography, NY; J. Paul Getty Museum, LA, George Eastman House; Kentucky Art Museum; School of Visual Art, NY; Aperture Foundation, NY, and the Museum of the City of New York.
Courtesy of the artist
The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Citibank Collection, Long Island City, NY
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Cleveland, OH
Deutsche Bank Collection, New York, NY
George Eastman House, Rochester, NY
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of the City of New York, NY
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
Queens Museum of Art, NY
Rose Museum at Brandeis University, MA
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
Yeshiva University, New York, NY
Allen G. Thomas Jr. Collection, Wilson, NC
Foley Gallery, New York, NY