Liu Yi was born in 1990 in Ningbo, China. She graduated from the China Academy of Fine Arts School of Intermedia Art with a Bachelor degree and the China Academy of Fine Arts with a Master degree in 2012 and 2016 respectively. She currently lives in Hangzhou. He primary research direction is ‘Early Chinese art films and experimental animation’.
Her video works include Origin of Species, Chaos Theory, A Travel Inward, Into The Void, A Crow Has Been Calling for a Whole Day etc. She deploys various mediums through animation, multi-media as well as space installation to reflect her daily living experience and discovers more possibilities in a space resonating with the subject of her works. Audiences are invited to unearth a differentiated parallel world through her eclectic works. In 2017, A Crow Has Been Calling for a Whole Day was selected by and showcased in Holland Animation Film Festival (HAFF), and subsequently was honoured as a Special Recommendation by the Hua International Short Film Festival. Liu Yi was invited to participate in the SeMa Nanji Residency Project hosted by the Seoul Museum of Art in Seoul in 2018. In 2019, she was invited to take part in The Royal Abbey of Fontevraud Anjou artist residencies. In the same year, she was invited to be on the Cyprus animation film festival jury and finished the residency in Cyprus. Her works have been collected by White Rabbit Gallery, Sydney, Australia, Stanford University East Asia Library, Stanford, United States and M+ Collection, Hong Kong.