Cherlyn Hsing-Hsin Liu (b. 1982, Kaohsiung, Taiwan) is an interdisciplinary artist, filmmaker and writer whose work is grounded in literature and the conceptual avant-garde. Cherlyn’s creative activity often starts from a life event or curiosity concerning an anomaly in language or in the material world. It continues by employing methods drawn from both Eastern and Western practices and philosophies. Her working method at various times involves handcrafted material, mixed media, and experimental interchange between new and old technologies.
Cherlyn’s films have been shown internationally at venues and festivals including Edinburgh International Film Festival (Scotland), Helsinki Festival (Finland), Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris (France), Tokyo Image Forum Festival (Japan), Antimatter [Media Art] (Victoria, BC), Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival (Taiwan), Crossroads Film Festival at SFMoMA (USA), among others. She received the Jury’s First Prize at the Women Make Waves Int'l Film Festival, Taiwan (2014) for Close-ups; the Jury Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival (2018) for How Old Are You? How Old Were You?; the Best Experimental Film Award at the South Taiwan Film Festival (2019) for A Study of Fly; and the Best Experimental Film Award at the San Diego Asian Film Festival (2023) for Teetering Graphite.
Her writings include a novel, Write Across, published in 2008; a play Sorrows of the Island (Finalist for the Taiwan Literature Award, 2011); a short story, The Couch, (Lin Yutang Literary Judges Award, 2011); and a printed book, 日裸: Hsing-Hsin’s Poetry and Photography, published in 2013.
She is a lecturer at CalArts, where she has taught: “Aesthetic Inquiries - Contemporary Asia," "Gender and Sexuality in Asian Cinema – A Preliminary Study of Urban Phenomenon and Postmodern Cinema" and "History of Experimental Film."
She currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California.
劉行欣（1982 年出生於台灣高雄）是一位跨學科藝術家、電影創作者和作家，其作品以文學和觀念藝術為基礎，畢業於加州藝術學院（CalArts）電影與數位影像創作所（The School of Film/Video）獲得藝術碩士（MFA）學位。劉行欣的藝術創作受到東西方哲學之啟蒙，也深受美歐先鋒派（avant-garde）電影之影響，作品經常源自生命中事件的延伸思考，抑或是對於周遭細微事物的覺察，時有觸及跨文化現象、跨域語言、結構主義與後結構主義等的反芻。她的影像性格體現在手工方法、混合媒材、與新舊技術之間的實驗交流上。
劉行欣執導的電影曾獲國際影展及美術館映演包括：台北金馬影展、愛丁堡國際電影節 (Scotland)、赫爾辛基藝術節 (Finland)、安納堡電影節 (USA)、Festival des Cinémas Différents et Expérimentaux de Paris (France)、 Tokyo Image Forum、 Crossroads Film Festival at SFMoMA (USA) 等；曾獲獎的作品包括《小團圓記 Close-ups》（台灣女性影展最佳評審獎 2014）、《入世 How Old Are You? How Old Were You?》（美國安納堡電影節最佳評審獎 2018）、《飛的修羅場 A Study of Fly》（台灣南方影展最佳實驗電影獎 2019）、《巛－ － － 谷 Teetering Graphite 》（美國聖地牙哥亞洲電影節最佳實驗電影獎 2023）。個人文學著作出版及獲獎包括：長篇小說《惝情書》（唐山出版社，2008）、短篇小說《沙發》（林語堂文學獎，2011）、攝影詩集《日裸》（個人出版，2013）。
她在加州藝術學院（CalArts）擔任講師，教授課程：《美學探究—當代亞洲電影》、《亞洲電影中的性別與性—城市現象與後現代電影初探》和《實驗電影史》。
她目前在美國加州洛杉磯生活和工作。