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 explores joy, playfulness, and humor 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 that viscerally feels joyful to create. 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 everyday. Seeking to revive presence, memory, and connection in an increasingly alienating, commodified, and technologically-mediated world, she metabolizes fleeting quotidian moments into the slowness of painting, conjuring deep wonder and gratitude for the small pockets of magic in life.