Sidian Liu is an image-based artist, translator, and home builder. Her practice reacts to the sense of displacement utilizing images, text, performance, installation, and socially-engaged methods. Through her work, she focuses on the participation and interaction of the public, facilitating intimacy from a distance while establishing a space to feel belonged through an exchange of trust and respect.

Sidian Liu was born in 1997 in Foshan, China. She obtained her BA in English at Shanghai International Studies University in 2019, and her MFA in Photography at Parsons, The New School in 2023.

Sidian is the recipient of the Snider Prize (MoCP, US, 2023), Top 10 of 9th Annual Photography Rankings in China (Photography Museum of Lishui, China, 2022), “Kunpeng Award'' of China Young Photographer Promotion Plan (the 21st Pingyao International Photography Festival, China, 2021), the top prize of First Female Photographer Competition by Miroir Project (China, 2021), and the top prize of Banshan Photography Award (Japan, 2020), etc. Her works have been shown in Tokyo, Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Lishui, and New York City, etc.

Her translation works have been published on LEAP. She has also translated for Hangzhou Triennial of Fiber Art, International Award for Art Criticism, and various art institutions, including Pro Helvetia Shanghai, Shanghai Minsheng Art Museum, Wu Space, and Aranya Art Center, etc.

刘思典（四点），1997年生于佛山，2019年毕业于上海外国语大学，2023年于帕森斯设计学院获得摄影硕士。她的创作主要以摄影、行为、装置等形式呈现。她擅长从个人体验出发，用创作回应流动、碎片化的当代生活中的流离失所，和各种难以消化的内在感受。受文学与剧场的影响，她的作品经常包含与观众的互动，在交互中共建互相支持的安全场域。

思典获得的奖项包括：芝加哥当代摄影博物馆2023年Snider Prize，第九届中国摄影年度排行榜，首届中国青年摄影推广计划“鲲鹏奖”，照镜子首届女性摄影师大赛、2020半山摄影奖大奖等。她的作品已于东京、纽约、北京、上海、武汉等多地展出。

思典的翻译作品曾在《艺术界》发表，她长期为上海民生美术馆、瑞士文化基金会上海办公室、阿那亚艺术中心、无空间等机构翻译。