Ruobing Liao
Artist member since 2025
ProToronto, Ontario
Ruobing Liao is a Toronto-based oil painter whose work explores female emotion, the subconscious, and the quiet tension in intimate relationships. Her paintings combine bold color with symbolic imagery—such as thorny plants and surreal bodies—to express harm, transformation, and inner resilience. Liao’s work balances figuration and emotional abstraction, revealing the invisible world of feeling through vivid visual language.
Liao has exhibited in several group shows in Toronto, including: • The Artist Project (2024 & 2025, Better Living Centre, Toronto) • RAW Artists: Glitch (2024, Parkdale Hall, Toronto)
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Best season of the year in Toronto
Spring
What kind of artwork do you have in your home?
Oil painting
Beverage of choice
Water
Favourite musical artist / band right now
Hadestown
What do you listen to when you work?
Jazz
When I'm not making art, I'm (a) ...
Thinking
Upcoming Exhibitions
2026-03-26
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2025
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2024
Education
2018
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