Ming Liew is a lens-based artist and a PhD student at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. Ming's practice draws upon his Chinese-Australian hybrid identity, combining auto-ethnography and visual storytelling to examine the immigrant experience in contemporary Australia. Accentuating the paradoxes between lived and prescribed realities, Ming uses his artworks to advocate for understanding that transcends social, cultural and political barriers.
Ming holds a Master of Fine Art from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He has exhibited in group and solo exhibitions in Melbourne since 2022, including at Blindside ARI, MARS gallery, Melbourne Design Week, Testing Grounds, Kings Artist-Run, Felt Space, Footscray Community Arts, Incinerator Gallery, Run Artist-Run and Collective Polyphony Festival. He has been recognised with various awards such as the First Prize of the fortyfivedownstairs Emerging Artist Award, Footscray Art Prize (finalist), Incinerator Art Award (finalist), NAVA Ignition Prize, and the RMIT Dean’s Awards for Academic Excellence. Ming was a creative resident at the Center for Contemporary Photography, and is currently an ACMI-X resident at the Australian Center for the Moving Image.
EDUCATION
2021 - 2022 | Master of Fine Art | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne
2013 - 2016 | Master in Architecture (by research) | Tsinghua University, Beijing
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 | Red Gallery, Melbourne
2024 | MARS Gallery, Melbourne
2023 | Testing Grounds, Melbourne
2023 | Kings Artist-Run, Melbourne
2023 | Felt Space, Adelaide
2023 | Run artist-run, Melbourne
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 | Melbourne Design Week, Melbourne
AWARDS
2023 | 1st Prize | fortyfivedownstairs Emerging Artist Award, Melbourne
2023 | Finalist | Incinerator Art Award, Melbourne
2023 | Finalist | Footscray Art Prize, Melbourne
2022 | Winner | Dean’s Award for Academic Excellence and contribution to the program, RMIT, Melbourne
2022 | Winner | NAVA Ignition Prize for Professional Practice, National Association for the Visual Arts, Melbourne
RESIDENCY
2024 - Present | ACMI-X | Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
2024 | CCP Creative residence | Centre for Contemporary Photography, Melbourne
2023 | RMIT + ACMI-X graduate residency | Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne
2023 | Run artist-run, Melbourne
PUBLICATION, WORKSHOPS AND TALKS
2024 | Talk | Regional Dialects: Photobook publishing around the world, PHOTO2024, Melbourne
SCHOLARSHIP
2015 | Beijing Municipal Government Scholarship, Beijing
2024 | RTP Stipend Scholarship, RMIT, Melbourne
EXPERIENCE
2023 - Present | Artistic Director | Blindside ARI, Melbourne
2023 | Artistic Director Intern | Blindside ARI, Melbourne
2023 | Gallery Technician | Blindside ARI, Melbourne
2023 | Gallery Intern | Blindside ARI, Melbourne
2017 - 2020 | Graduate architect | Arkit Pty. Ltd., Melbourne