Ellie Liu is a textile artist born and raised in Seattle, WA. She received her BFA in Studio Art from Oberlin College in 2023. The artist specializes in soft sculptures and installation art that explores themes of comfort, childhood, and loss, blending personal narrative with cultural identity. Liu’s work reflects her experience as a second-generation immigrant, weaving together memories of home, and the evolving dynamics of familial relationships. Her practice often involves replicating objects from her childhood and translating them into soft sculptures, using textiles as a medium to explore the fading evidence of an idealized past among life's transitions and grief.

Textiles captivate Liu due to their tangible, familiar nature and their deep-rooted historical associations with gendered craft. By incorporating techniques like sewing, knitting, and crocheting, she challenges the stereotypes that often marginalize textiles as "feminine craft," elevating the medium to fine art. Through this process, she not only honors female labor but also pushes against traditional art boundaries, advocating for the representation of female and Asian artists in the contemporary art world. The artist’s work, which juxtaposes the warmth and familiarity of textiles with themes of displacement and memory's fragility, invites viewers to confront the complexities of human experience.

Liu’s work has been exhibited in various shows, including a residency and show at Carrie Able Gallery in Brooklyn, NY (2023), and most recently at The Fishbowl Gallery in Seattle for Sunbleached (2024), and A Soft Side of Hope (2025).