Jackie Liu (b. 2003, Massachusetts) is a disabled Chinese American painter and storyteller based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She graduated from Stanford University in 2025 with a BAH in Art Practice and Minors in Philosophy and Environmental Justice. Living with Long Covid and an alphabet soup of mental illnesses, she responds to trauma by making art that visually captures moments of joy, and that feels viscerally joyful to create. Her work explores joy, wonder, playfulness, and humor as modes of resistance and healing. With oil paint layered over vibrant acrylic underpaintings, her intimately detailed portraits honor chosen family, commemorate moments of bliss, and elevate the minutiae of the quotidian. Metabolizing the fleeting moments of everyday life into the slowness of painting, she seeks to revive presence, memory, and connection in a fast-paced digital world.