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Xinmei Liu is represented by Début Art.
For editorial inquiries in the US please contact her directly.
For all other inquiries please contact info@debutart.com / +44 (0) 20 7636 1064


E-mail: xinmei[a]catmoverart.net
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Cat Mover's real name is Xinmei Liu.
She currently lives in Indiana. After getting her MFA from the Illustration as Visual Essay program at School of Visual Arts, she has been working as an illustrator/printer/publisher.
She is a publishing assistant at Paradise Systems.
She was born in Shanghai, China.
The cat that Cat Mover moved was a black cat in her building. His name was Lestat. He was a resident of Pratt Institute. May he rest in peace.
She now has a rabbit named Kitty Cat and a cat named Tyga.

Client List:
The New York Times/ The New Yorker/ The Economist/ NBC News/ Foreign Policy/ Harvard Business Review/ Medium/ Vox.com/ Scholastics/ Penguin Random House/ Amazon Publishing/ Poetry Foundation/ China Books Review/ Noema Magazine/ Chatham House/ TheStory.com/ Zetland/ Le Monde Diplomatique/ AFAR Magazine/ True/False Film Festival/ Phanomen Design/ China Bridge/ Think!Chinatown/ Society6/ The Shanghairen/ Shanghai Museum/ ZHICHINA

Awards and Recognition:
ADC 103rd Annual Awards, Merit Honor/ The One Club for Creativity Young Guns 20/ The Museum of Avant-garde contemporary permanent collection/ World Illustration Awards 2021-Shortlisted/ Society of Illustrators 66, 64, 63/ American Illustration selected 43, 41, 40, 39/ Illustration West 59/ iJungle Illustration Awards/ 3x3 International Illustration Show 18, 17-Gold, 16, 14,13/ Communication Arts Illustration Annual/ Society of Illustrators Student Competition


Exhibitions:

2020      Chinatown Arts Week      New York, NY

2020      Red Envelope Show      City Point    Brooklyn, NY
2019      SVA MFA Illustration Book Show      New York, NY

2019      The Shanghairen Exhibition      The Mix Place    Shanghai, China

2016      FAREWELL Comic Show      Ouchi Gallery   Brooklyn, NY

2016      Pratt Design Show      Brooklyn, NY 


Features & Interviews:

2022      The One Club for Creativity

2022      歪脑 WHYNOT

2022      Communication Arts

2022      Radii China

2022      It’s Nice That

2020      PLAIN Magazine

2020      Creative Review

2020      Creative Boom

2020      Girls Club Asia

2020      Ground Ooh Art

2016      Ballpit Magazine