Exhibitions | Leo (Xin Liu)
Selected exhibitions tracing Leo (Xin) Liu’s artistic development from contemporary Chinese ink painting to cyanotype, installation, and community-based art in Prince Edward Island and beyond.
The Story of Fiona
For PEI, Hurricane Fiona in 2022 seems to be a bad joke, more like a "big gift" imposed on us, we are nervous, helpless, we accept and calm, we rediscover and find surprises. All of this is a fascinating story, and today Liu Xin uses his paintings to show his story and Fiona's story, and maybe it's also your story and mine.
From Fiona, other works began:
Jieqi’s Dragon
Hockey Series
Blue Series
Hurricane Fiona, September 2022 I arrived on Prince Edward Island less than a month before the storm. This project began that night.
Leo‘s Solo Exhibition 2023
Jie Qi‘s Dragon A multicultural art program that lasts throughout the Lunar Year of the Dragon An art project focusing on extreme climate and environmental issues An art project that uses "Jie Qi" to reflect on the philosophy of man and nature. Art projects that include painting/variable installation/performance art
Jieqi's Dragon 節氣之龍
Leo‘s Exhibition Since 2024
P.O.T.S: Never Stop
P.O.T.S – Never Stop was a solo exhibition by Leo , presented at The Guild in 2024. Through painting, installation, photographic documentation, and artist-designed postage stamps, the exhibition explored his observations and experiences after moving from China to Prince Edward Island. It reflected on themes of land, migration, natural disaster, memory, and the process of building a new life.
The title P.O.T.S is created by rearranging the letters of the word “STOP.” This transformation expresses the central idea of Never Stop: never stop observing, creating, moving, communicating, or reconsidering the relationship between art and life.
Leo‘s Solo Exhibition of summer 2024
Desire Paths marked Leo (Xin) Liu’s first participation in a professional group exhibition within Prince Edward Island’s local arts community, presenting his practice through the language of contemporary Chinese ink painting.
Organized by This Town Is Small (TTIS), the professionally paid exhibition brought together twelve Epekwitk/PEI-based artists at the Hilda Woolnough Gallery in Charlottetown from November 14 to December 19, 2024. Liu exhibited Memories Along the Way, an ink-and-wash work exploring movement, memory, endurance, and the ambiguous state of life. The exhibition also included a public Art Night tour, artist discussions, and a hands-on workshop.
Desire Paths
Monthly Group Exhibitions at Breadalbane Gallery
Since 2023, Leo (Xin) Liu has participated regularly in monthly group exhibitions at Breadalbane Gallery, Prince Edward Island. This ongoing exhibition relationship has provided him with a consistent local platform for presenting the development of his practice across painting, contemporary Chinese ink, printmaking, and experimental mixed media.
Rather than a single exhibition experience, Breadalbane has become a sustained space for artistic experimentation, dialogue, and connection with PEI’s local arts community. This long-term relationship also led to Leo’s solo presentation, Fans, at the gallery in 2025.
Since 2023
Fanatics was a 2026 thematic group exhibition presented by the Peake Street Collective through This Town Is Small (TTIS). Held at The Arts Guild in Charlottetown from April 16 to May 23, the exhibition invited artists to explore their personal passions, obsessions, fascinations, and private devotions.
Leo (Xin) Liu presented Blue Hockey: The Laocoön Moment, a cyanotype work depicting an instant of pain, struggle, and physical entanglement during an ice hockey game. By connecting the intensity of hockey with the emotional and bodily tension suggested by Laocoön, the work transforms a moment of athletic collision into an image of human resistance and vulnerability. The exhibition marked a further development of Liu’s participation in the local PEI arts community and of Blue Hockey as a visual language shaped by his life in Canada.
Fanatics:
Blue Hockey-
The Laocoön Moment
Liu,Xin (Leo Liu) · Contemporary Artist · PEI, Canada