Liwen Lian(1999 b.Beijing) is a Hui-Chinese visual artist, filmmaker working across contemporary art and expanded cinema. Their work explores identity, migration, ecology and urbanisation. Reflecting the grief, tension and contradiction in progress and growth. Through autoethnographic and archival research with CGI film making, they create dream like scenes and realities. Narratives comes from individual and collective memory, sitting between documentary and fiction.
They completed the Young Creatives Lab residency at SIGNAL Arts (2025), supported by the City of Melbourne.Their work has shown at Melbourne Design Week, Now or Never Festival, Next Wave, Mpavilion, SIGNAL,
MISCELLANIA, Bundoora Homestead.