Liu
Chongyan

CHONGYAN LIU is a Chinese artist/filmmaker living and studying in Paris. She was born in Guizhou, China, in 1995. She graduated from CAFA: Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, and obtained her master's degree at the Beaux-Arts de Paris, France, in 2022. 

Chongyan is an artist trained in various artistic disciplines: documentary and fiction filmmaking, video art installation, painting, and sculpture. She's now in collaboration with Le Fresnoy till 2024. Thematically, her oeuvre tackles various political and sociological topics, including socio-economic inequality and intersectionality. She draws from her personal experiences while maintaining an objective approach, always supported by relevant research. She has worked on a multitude of video art/experimental documentary pieces before writing & directing two short-fiction films.