Sharon Liu

Sharon Liu is a Curatorial Assistant at the Mead Art Museum, Amherst College. Her work focuses on ways to engage local communities through curatorial projects, study groups, and zine making. Her recent exhibitions include “Laborious Hands: Printed Matter(s) from China, Malaysia, Mexico, the Soviet Union, and the United States” (Frost Library, Amherst, 2024), “Part of an Impossible Task: Michael Rakowitz” (Mead Art Museum, Amherst, 2024) and “Retrieving and Revitalizing: From Yurakucho to Yangon” (YAU Studio, Tokyo, 2023). Besides exhibitions, she has written for magazines, including Artforum China, CAFA Art Info, and Ocula. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Art History and Math from Wellesley College in 2017 and obtained a master’s degree in East Asian Studies from Yale University in 2020. She was a research student at Tokyo University of the Arts from 2022 to 2023, where she conducted art history research funded by the Ishibashi Foundation.