Liu Jiayi (刘佳依) is a Shanghai-born interdisciplinary artist living and working on the unceded lands of the Kulin Nation in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia. Working across living fungi, digital fabrication, sculpture and installation, her practice explores how bodies are continually formed through relationships with other bodies, materials, technologies and environments.
Drawing from personal experiences of bodily injury and transformation, Liu approaches the body as porous and continually shaped through contact with the world around it. Her current practice brings fungi into dialogue with digitally fabricated structures, using cultivation, scanning, printing and repeated transformation to explore co-formation between biological growth and human-made systems. Her work considers the tensions between care and control, intervention and autonomy, and the unstable boundaries between the human and nonhuman, living and artificial.
Liu is currently completing a Master of Fine Art at RMIT University and holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne. In 2026, she participated in Tropical Lab 20 residency at LASALLE College of the Arts in Singapore.
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Education
2025 - Present Master of Fine Art, RMIT University, Melbourne
2021 Associate Degree in Graphic Design (Distinction), RMIT University, Melbourne
2018 Bachelor of Science, University of Melbourne, Melbourne
Residency & seleted Programs
2026 Tropical Lab 20 Residency, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
2025 Industry Partnered Studio, Blindside Gallery & RMIT University, Melbourne, led by Dr Nikki Lam
2025 Clement Space, RMIT University Library, Melbourne, led by Dr Dawn-joy Leong
Professional PRactice
2025 - 2026 President, MFA Art Club, RMIT University, Melbourne
2021 - 2025 Freelance Graphic Designer/Illustrator, Melbourne/Shanghai
2021 - 2022 Graphic Design Intern, Bird n Island Travel, Melbourne
2020 - 2021 Graphic Designer, RMIT Rover Team, Melbourne
Group Exhibitions
2026 Terra, LASALLE College of the Arts, Singapore
2025 Hysterical Legacies, Queen Victoria Women’s Centre, Melbourne
2025 Convergence, Blindside Gallery, Melbourne
2025 Flesh Notes, Mixed Zoning, Brunswick East
2025 Smoulder, Neon Parlour Gallery, Thornbury
2025 Sap, Studio Arthouse Gallery, Brunswick
2022 Fifty Squared Art Prize, Brunswick Street Gallery, Brunswick