Liwen Lian (they/them)

Qualifications
Bachelor of Interior Design (Honours 2A) - RMIT University

Exhibitions
2025 Before/Nightfall, Melbourne Design Week, NGV x City of Melbourne
2025 Un/Real, Group Exhibition, Blender Studio, Melbourne
2023 INDEX, Interior Design Graduate Exhibition, Design Hub Gallery, Melbourne
2020 Death in a Box, Group Exhibition with Emerging Artist Collective

Residencies
2025 Young Creatives Lab, SIGNAL Arts, City of Melbourne
2023 We Belong Project, RMIT University

Projects Lead
2024 Workshop - "Writing as Worldmaking", collaboration with Rosie Pham, Khoa Nguyen, MPavilion,
City of Melbourne
2023 Bundanon Tapestry with Heliotope Architecture, Finalist Tapestry Design Prize for Architects
2020 Public Art Installation with Slow Art Collective at RMIT University
2019  Public Art Installation for Monash University Diversity Week, with Architect Luca Lana

Professional Experience
2024 - Onging Gallery Assistant at Seventh Gallery, Melbourne
2024 - Onging Member of SIGNAL Curators Collective
2019 - 2024 Graphic Designer- SIGNAL Curators, Beijing LGBT+ Centre, Leslie Eastman, Dr. Bon Mott...
2023 - 2024 Graduate of Interior Design - Heliotope Architecture, Melbourne
2023 - 2024 FOH - Open House Melbourne
2022 - 2023  Graphic Designer - Beijing LGBT+ Centre
2018  Interior Design Intern - LOD Design, Beijing

Publications
2021 - 2023 Founder and Editor at IntersectionalReader.space
2022  Essay "Writer's Manifesto", co-entry with Andrea Hipolito, Caliper Journal Issue 10
2020 Prose "Time is a Broken Machine", Caliper Journal Issue 08