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Qian Liu was born in Beijing, China and moved to Minnesota in 2008. Qian started playing piano as a child and later trained as a painter in China. Her practice embraces performance, painting, ceramics, woodcarving and installation. Qian received a BFA from the University of Minnesota with a concentration in painting and ceramics. She is a three-time recipient of the Minnesota State Arts Board Artist Initiative Grant. Her work moves between the dead serious and the very absurd, addresses themes of lack, alienation, violence and decay. Her process is rooted in improvisation using aesthetic and conceptual arrangements of ordinary things