Jackie Liu (b. 2003, Massachusetts) is a disabled and autistic painter and storyteller based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She graduated from Stanford University in 2025 with a BAH in Art Practice, a minor in Philosophy, and a minor in Environmental Justice. Her work harnesses joy, love, and silliness as modes of resistance and healing. Living with Long Covid and an alphabet soup of mental illnesses, she responds to trauma and chronic pain with irreverence, making art that both visually captures moments of joy and viscerally feels joyful to create. With oil paint layered over vibrant acrylic underpaintings, her intimately detailed portraits of chosen family metabolize fleeting memories into a medium of painstaking slowness, imparting gravity upon trivial moments of levity by commemorating them in art. Seeking to revive presence and connection in an increasingly alienating, commodified, and digitized world, she wields paintbrush as wand to conjure wonder and gratitude for the small pockets of magic in life.