Jeff Liao is a native of Taiwan and attended high school in Canada. His
undergraduate degree is from Pratt, and he completed his MFA at the School
of Visual Arts in 2005. Liao's thesis project, Habitat 7, was the
winner of the 2005 New York Times Magazine "Capture the Times" photography
contest.
Habitat 7 is a series of large scale color panoramic photographs focusing on the ethnic communities that have grown around the IRT 7 train in Queens. Liao's compelling panoramic images are shot with a large format camera and are full of minute detail. They are composed of multiple exposures made at the same location and taken over the course of several hours. The result is a project that transcends documentary and reveals to us the deliberation, and intensely personal journey undertaken by the Laio. The Queens Museum of Art hosted an exhibition of Habitat 7 for six months in the spring and summer of 2006. His work has been enthusiastically received critically and is in the collection of the George Eastman House and the Harvard Business School. Nazraeli Press published a large scale monograph with text by Anne Tucker in the fall of 2006. Nazraeli will publish a second monograph on the Depth of Fields stadium project in 2010.
The Bronx Musuem of the Arts has commissioned Liao to do a major project on the Grand Concourse comemorating its 100th anniversary which will run through the fall of 2009. Liao will be exhibited alongside Catherine Opie and Soo Kim at the Getty Museum opening in February 2010.
Habitat 7 is a series of large scale color panoramic photographs focusing on the ethnic communities that have grown around the IRT 7 train in Queens. Liao's compelling panoramic images are shot with a large format camera and are full of minute detail. They are composed of multiple exposures made at the same location and taken over the course of several hours. The result is a project that transcends documentary and reveals to us the deliberation, and intensely personal journey undertaken by the Laio. The Queens Museum of Art hosted an exhibition of Habitat 7 for six months in the spring and summer of 2006. His work has been enthusiastically received critically and is in the collection of the George Eastman House and the Harvard Business School. Nazraeli Press published a large scale monograph with text by Anne Tucker in the fall of 2006. Nazraeli will publish a second monograph on the Depth of Fields stadium project in 2010.
The Bronx Musuem of the Arts has commissioned Liao to do a major project on the Grand Concourse comemorating its 100th anniversary which will run through the fall of 2009. Liao will be exhibited alongside Catherine Opie and Soo Kim at the Getty Museum opening in February 2010.
Grand Concourse 2008 [view
images]
Depth of Fields 2007-2008 (series in progress) [view
images]
Habitat 7 2004-2005 [view
images]