
The award is received at the Institute Awards Convocation and includes an exhibition at the Wiesner Gallery. This award is presented annually to MIT students who have demonstrated excellence in a body of artistic work. The Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize in the Visual Arts, 1st Prize Award includes an exhibition in the Netherlands. Winner of an international competition for €25,000 to complete a new work in collaboration with scientists. The Washington Award has recognized talented artists in the fields of, music, dance and visual arts especially those who contribute to international cultural collaboration. 2019Īward for artworks that acutely question the current state of affairs and present alternatives to the status quo. Washington Award in the Arts, S&R Foundation

2020Īwarded to artists whose achievements have been recognized as demonstrating extraordinary promise in any area of artistic practice 2019-2021Īwarded artist receive a fully-funded studio space to produce new work and make use of resources needed to support their creative practice. Groot Foundation Grant, 1st PlaceĪwarded to artists who have exceptional talent and demonstrated ability in ceramic sculpture or sculpture. Awarded for Innovation at the nexus of Science, Technology, and the ARTS for the video game Shapes and Ladders. MFA NOW series: Primordial Spoof with MIT's Hacking Arts Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Prize Exhibition Summer Event: Hacking Perceptual Affect with the Hot Milks Foundation Collaborative participatory installation Laboratory of Longings: The Experiments of Ani Liu ReShape: Mutating Systems, Bodies and PerspectivesīioDesign: From Inspiration to Integration Human Machine: Festival of the Impossible Her studio is based in New York City.Ĭentre d’innovation et de design au Grand-Hornu Ani continually seeks to discover the unexpected, through playful experimentation, intuition, and speculative storytelling. She has previously taught at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Princeton University, and is on critique panels at Harvard, Dartmouth, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, NYU, UNC Charlotte, Pratt, Parsons. She is passionate about integrating multidisciplinary approaches to art making, and is currently teaching at Columbia University.

from Dartmouth College, a Masters of Architecture from the Harvard Graduate School of Design, and a Master of Science from MIT Media Lab.

She is the winner of the Princeton Arts Fellowship (2019-2021), the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship (2020), the Virginia Groot Foundation Fellowship (2020), the S&R Washington Prize (2018), the YouFab Global Creative Awards (1st place, 2018), the Biological Art & Design Award (2017). Ani's work has been exhibited internationally, at the Venice Biennale (Architecture Biennale 2021), Ars Electronica, the Queens Museum Biennial, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Asian Art Museum, MIT Museum, MIT Media Lab, Mana Contemporary, Harvard University, and Shenzhen Design Society. She’s been featured on National Geographic, VICE, Mashable, Gizmodo, TED, Core77, PBS, PCMag, FOX and WIRED. Reoccurring themes in her work include gender politics, biopolitics, labor, simulation and sexuality. Her work examines the reciprocal relationships between science, technology and their influence on human subjectivity, culture, and identity. Ani Liu is an internationally exhibiting research-based artist working at the intersection of art & science.
