Solo Exhibitions
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2013
Mono No Ma, Gardiner Museum, Toronto (cat.)
Recodings, Bulthaup, Toronto
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2012
BLAST, Allen Lambert Galleria, Brookfield Place, Toronto
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2011
Lost in Transaction, No. 9 Contemporary Art, Pearson International Airport, Toronto
BLAST, Michael Klein Gallery (MKG127), Toronto
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2009
Pook X Pookie, SCI-Arc Gallery, Los Angeles
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2008
Matter, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Style and Epoch, Michael Klein Gallery (MKG127), Toronto
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2007
Ether, The News at Five, Toronto International Art Fair
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2004
Ether, Mercer Union, Toronto
Tackiness and Anti-Power, Artists Space, New York
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2001
Condition, Henry Urbach Gallery, New York
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2000
Pathology, Contemporary Art Gallery (CAG), Vancouver
Group Exhibitions
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2012
Museum for the End of the World, Nuit Blanche 2012, Toronto (cat.)
Hyper Spaces, Oakville Galleries, Oakville
Local Color, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
Full Circle, WORKShop, Toronto
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2011
PARAdesign, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco
Collection Tedeschi, Parisian Laundry, Montréal
The More Things Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco
Place, Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto
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2010
Empire of Dreams, Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art (MOCCA), Toronto (cat.)
Out of Sight, Nuit Blanche, Toronto
Everything Must Go, Toronto International Art Fair, Toronto
Design Domestic, Design Exchange, Toronto
Colour Shift, CODE Screen 2010, Vancouver
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2009
The Leona Drive Project, Willowdale (cat.)
eva International Biennial of Visual Art 2009, Limerick (cat.)
Fremtidens arkitektur er grøn!, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen (cat.)
Mouth of Lenin, Exhibition 211, New York
Transclimatic, Sydney Customs House, Sydney (cat.)
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2008
11th Venice Biennale - Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, Venice (cat.)
Hier ist Amerika oder Nirgends, Galerie Ben Kaufmann / Art Berlin Contemporary, Berlin (cat.)
246 and Counting, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco
Figuration in Contemporary Design, The Art Institute of Chicago (cat.)
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2007
Modelle fur Morgen: Koln, European Kunsthalle, Cologne
Pattern Theory, Michael Klein Gallery (MKG127), Toronto
Paradox Practice: Architecture in the Wake of Conceptualism, UCI Art Gallery, Irvine (cat.)
Happy Birthday, Michael Klein Gallery (MKG127), Toronto
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2006
Street, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam
Sense of the City, Centre Canadien d’Architecture (CCA), Montréal (cat.)
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2005
Airborne, Henry Urbach Gallery, New York
Therefore Beautiful, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal (cat.)
Re Building The World, Art Gallery of Edmonton
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2004
Ziploc, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Guelph
A.C., Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
Domestic Odyssey, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose (cat.)
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2003
mosaiCanada: Sign and Sound, Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul (cat.)
Dead Malls, Urban Center Gallery at the Municipal Art Society, New York (cat.)
Rethinking Photography IV: New Reduction as Expansion, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg
Blister In The Sun, Gallery Neubacher, Toronto
Bauhauswerk, weework, Toronto
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2002
New Modulr, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto and The Art Gallery of Calgary
Housebroken, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
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1999
Luster, Henry Urbach Gallery, New York
Collections
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
Toronto Dominion Bank Collection, Toronto, Tedeschi Collection, Montreal, Dickinson
Wright Collection, Toronto, ASAP Archive of Spatial and Aesthetic Praxis, London / Berlin
Publications
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Monographs
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Michael Prokopow and Janine Marchessault eds., The Leona Drive Project (PUBLIC 43). Toronto: Public Access, 2011.
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Selected Exhibition Catalogs
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James Gunn ed., One Hour Empire: Empire of Dreams. Toronto: Impulse [B:] and the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, 2010.
Yilmaz Dziewior and Angelika Nollert, e v+ a 2009 Exhibition of Visual Art, Cork: Gandon Editions, 2009.
Kjeld Kjeldsen and Michael Juul Holm eds., Fremtidens arkitektur er grøn! , Humlebæk: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, 2009.
Julia Höner, ‘Kreatur und Kosmos’, Hier ist Amerika oder Nirgends. Berlin: Galerie Ben Kaufmann, 2008.
Aaron Betsky, Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, 11th International Architecture Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia. Venice: Marsilio, 2008.
Joseph Rosa, ‘Reimagining the Ornamental’,
Figuration in Contemporary Design
. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago and Yale University Press, 2008.Julie Carson and Nana Last eds., Paradox Practice: Architecture in the Wake of Conceptualism. Irvine: University of California, Irvine, 2007.
Mirko Zardini ed., Sense of the City: An Alternative Approach to Urbanism. Baden: CCA and Lars Müller publishers, 2005, pp. 308-9.
Vanessa Müller, Therefore Beautiful, Kraichtal: Ursula Blickle Stiftung, 2005.
Wayne Baerwaldt and Keunhye Lim: mosaiCanada: Sign and Sound. Seoul: Museum of Art, 2003.
Selected Articles, Essays and Reviews
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2012
Murray Whyte: Oakville Gallery's Hyper Spaces, The Toronto Star, January 4 2012.
Jakob Rutka: BLAST, The Grid, April 9 2012.
Cindy Wu: White Dwarf - Nuit Blanche, Ming Pao News, September 24 2012.
Jacqueline Han: An Te Liu's White Dwarf, Singtao Daily, December 21 2012.
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2011
John Bentley Mays: Modern Man - An Te Liu and the Space between Idea and Object, Canadian Art, Summer 2011, pp. 62-67.
Anne Wagner: Screen Memories and Ordinary Objects, Haegue Yang: Wild Against Gravity. Oxford: Modern Art Oxford / Aspen Art Museum, 2011, pp. 57-70.
Murray Whyte: A blast at our disposable culture, The Toronto Star, April 23 2011.
R. M. Vaughan: The familiar transformed into the mysterious, The Globe and Mail, May 7 2011.
Mason White: Air Borne, DOMUS 948, June 2011.
Shannon Anderson: Hyperspaces - Manuel Ballester / An Te Liu / Lynne Marsh, Oakville
Galleries Centennial, 2011. (exh. essay)
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2010
Al Olsen: A Giant Green Monument to the Credit Crunch, MSNBC Life Inc., October 29 2010.
Artist creates Monopoly house as monument to credit crunch (three more and he can buy a hotel), The Daily Mail UK, October 31 2010.
Laura Kuisto: Do Not Pass Go: Canadian Artist Turns a Profit on Foreclosure Joke, The New York Observer, November 2 2010.
John Bentley Mays: Look Way Up, International Architecture and Design, Fall 2010.
R.M. Vaughan: The future is dystopian but buildings have modern feelings, The Globe and Mail, July 10 2010.
Murray Whyte: A vision of the city, warts and all, The Toronto Star, June 24 2010.
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2009
Richard Rhodes: An Te Liu: Board Games, Canadian Art, November 5 2009.
Murray White: Requiem for a Suburban Lifestyle, Toronto Star, October 25 2009.
Lisa Rochon: Project Brings New Meaning to Art House, The Globe and Mail, October 24 2009.
Peter Kuitenbrouwer: It’s not Park Place, but close, The National Post, October 20 2009.
Shawn Micallef: Bungalow’s Last Stand, EYE Weeekly, October 22 2009.
David Gissen: Subnature: Architecture's Other Environments. Princeton: Princeton Architectural Press, 2009, pp. 94-95.
Rodolphe El Khoury: Air Apparent: An Te Liu, Man and Machine, DAMn 21, April / May 2009, pp. 34-42.
Mason White: 99.7 Per Cent Pure, AD: Energies - New Material Boundaries. Sean Lally ed. London: Wiley Press, 2008.
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2008
Rodney LaTourelle: Head in the Clouds, Canadian Architect, November 2008, pp. 23-27.
Jan Winkelmann: Frische Luft: Zur Arbeit von An Te Liu, BE Magazin 15: Auteur, Künstler haus Bethanien, 2008, pp. 68-73.
Stephanie Vegh: Toronto Queen West District, MAP 15, Autumn 2008, pp. 62-63.
Gary Michael Dault: Pattern Theory, Border Crossings, Winter 2008.
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- 2007
Gary Michael Dault: Happy Birthday, The Globe and Mail, July 21 2007.
Richard Rhodes: Toronto Now: The Moment, Canadian Art, Winter 2007, pp. 58-73.
Mark Cheetham: Social Abstraction: Disease and Cure, Abstract Art Since the 1960s: Against Autonomy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Janine Marchessault: The Shopping Mall and the Camp, Mercer Union, Toronto, 2004. (exh. essay)
Charlotte Vaudrey: The Shape of the City, FRAME 35, November / December 2003, pp. 126-127.
Nikolai Janatsch: Dieses Foto ist kein Foto, SVZ, July 9, 2003.
Glenn Williams: NEWMODULR, Art Papers, vol. 27, no. 1, January / February 2003, pp. 54-55.
Sarah Milroy: Thoroughly Modern Art, The Globe and Mail, September 25, 2002.
Heather MacKay: The Walls of Perception, Azure, September / October 2002, p. 45.
Rodolphe El-Khoury: Between Air and Space: Prologue to An Te Liu's Exchange, Threshold 23: Deviant, Cambridge: MIT, 2002, pp. 16-23.
Barbara Fischer: The New Modulr: 100% generic and 100% specific, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto 2002. (exh. essay)
Glen Helfand: Housebroken, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, 2002. (exh. essay)
Heather MacKay: Better Living Through Sterility, Azure, (September/October 2001), p. 61.
Kika Thorne: An Te Liu, MIX independent art & culture, vol. 26 no. 2, Fall 2000, pp. 15, 19-21.
Aaron Betsky: Safe Haven, Surface, no. 25, Fall 2000, pp. 154-156, 260.
Michael Scott: Home Sterile Home, The Vancouver Sun, August 12 2000, p. E13.
Robin Laurence: View of Urbanization Is a Breath of Fresh Air, The Georgia Straight, August 10-17, 2000, p. 52.
Education
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Master of Architecture
Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc), Los Angeles
Honours B.A., Fine Art History, Renaissance Studies
Victoria College, University of Toronto
Selected Grants and Residencies
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Canada Council for the Arts, Research/Creation Grant to Visual Artist
Ontario Arts Council, Established Visual Artist Grant
Toronto Arts Council, Grant to Visual Artist
DFAIT Canada, Exhibition Assistance Grant
Canada Council for the Arts, International Residency to Visual Artist, Kunsterlhaus Bethanian, Berlin
Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, Mid-Career Visual Artist Grant
Toronto Arts Council, Grant to Visual Artist
Canada Council for the Arts, Creation Grant to Visual Artist
Ontario Arts Council, Toronto, Visual Artist Mid-Career Grant
Toronto Arts Council, Toronto, Grant to Visual Artist
Canada Council for the Arts , Visual Arts Creation Grant (mid-Career 'B')
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Research Grant
DFAIT Canada, International Career Development Grant
Consulate General of Canada, New York, Exhibition Assistance Gran