HUNG LIU
Born: February 17, 1948, Changchun, China
Education:
1986
Master of Fine Arts Degree in Visual Arts
University of California, San Diego.
1981
Graduate Degree (MFA Equivalent), Mural Painting
Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China.
1975
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Art and Art Education
Beijing Teachers College, Beijing, China.
Academic Positions:
2001-present: Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, California.
1995-2001: Associate Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, California.
1990-1995: Assistant Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, California.
1989-90: Assistant Professor of Art, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.
1987: Adjunct Professor (Chinese Art History), Department of Art, University of Texas at Arlington.
1981-84: Professor of Art, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China.
Awards:
2000 Outstanding Alumna Award, University of California, San Diego.
1999 Joan and Robert Danforth Distinguished Professorship in the Arts Endowed Chair, Mills College.
1998 The Joan Mitchell Foundation, Inc., Painters and Sculptors Grant.
1996 “Hometown Heroes, Oakland Artists Who Have Made A Difference,” proclaimed by Elihu M. Harris, Mayor of the City of Oakland, CA.
San Francisco Women’s Center Humanities Award, San Francisco.
1995 Art in America, “Art World Awards”, Vol. 83, No. 5, p134.
1994 International Association of Art Critics (US Section), Best Exhibition by an Emerging Artist, 1993-94 Season: “Jiu Jin Shan,” De Young Museum.
1993
Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship, San Francisco, January.
1992
Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
1991
National Endowment for the Arts, Painting Fellowship.
1989
National Endowment for the Arts, Painting Fellowship.
1988
Capp Street Project Stipend.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
2009 Asparas, Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO
Hung Liu: New Work, 10 Chancery Lane, Hong Kong, China
Hung Liu: New Work, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
Eric Yake Kenagy Visiting Artist: Hershberger Art Gallery, Goshen, IN.
Hung Liu: Remote Portraits, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, Aug.- Sept.
2008 Prodigal Daughter: F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
Cycles, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Year of the Rat, Walter Michael Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Music of the Great Earth, New Beijing Gallery, Beijing, China
2007 Memorial Grounds: 1988-2006, Pei Ling Chang Gallery at Savannah College of
Art and Design, Georgia, Jan.9, 2007 – Feb. 27, 2008.
Hung Liu: ZZ (Bastard Paintings), Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY.
Hung Liu: Daughters of China, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Hung Liu: New Work, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2006
Hung Liu: New Work, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, California, September – October.
Matriarchy: Hung Liu’s New Work, Art Scene China Warehouse, Shanghai, China, September.
The Vanishing: Re-presenting the Chinese in the American West, University of Wyoming Art Museum,” Laramie, Wyoming, May – September.
Full Circle: Revolutions in the Paintings of Hung Liu, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, January – February.
Hung Liu: Za Zhong – Bastard Paintings, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York, December, 2005 – January, 2006.
2005
Hung Liu: Polly - Portrait of a Pioneer, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California, October– November.
Hung Liu: Female Radical Nu Zi Pang, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York, May – June.
Hung Liu: An Exhibition of New Work at Trillium Press, Trillium Press, Brisbane, California, May– June.
Hung Liu, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, California, April - May.
Hung Liu: A Decade of Paintings, Guilford College Art Gallery Greensboro,
North Carolina, March – May.
The Vanishing: Re-presenting the Chinese in the American West, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT, January – March.
Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Orgeon University, Ashland, Oregon,
Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.
Relic: New Paintings, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida, November, 2004 – January, 2005.
2004
Hung Liu: Lament, Art Scene China, Shanghai, China, September - October.
Hung Liu, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, March – May.
2003
New Prints by Hung Liu, Paulson Press, Berkeley, California, October– November.
Geography of Memory: Selected Works by Hung Liu, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California, September – December.
Hung Liu: Revolutionary Daughter, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September – November.
Hung Liu: New Paintings, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho, July – September.
Hung Liu: Toward Peng-Lai (Paradise), Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California, May – June.
Hung Liu: Works on Paper, B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento. California, March.
Complex Puzzles, New Work: Hung Liu, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida, November, 2002 – January, 2003.
2002
Painterly Proofs: Prints by Hung Liu, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California, September – December.
Hung Liu, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida, August – October.
Strange Fruit: New Paintings by Hung Liu, Arizona State University Art Museum,
Tempe, Arizona, January – April;
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho, June – August;
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, October, 2002 – February, 2003;
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, March – May, 2003.
Hung Liu: Paintings, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming, June– August.
2001
Hui Yin (Echoes), Mabel Smith Douglass Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey, September– October.
Studio Sessions: New Paintings by Hung Liu, Craft and Cultural Arts Department, City of Oakland and State of California Gallery, Oakland, California.
Beyond the Frame: Hung Liu, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee, September- December.
A Retrospective of Contemporary Paintings by Hung Liu, Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas, April – July.
2000
New Paintings, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California, September – October.
Where Is Mao? 2000, The Art Center, Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkom University, Bangkok, Thailand, July.
Hung Liu, LewAllen Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April.
Hung Liu, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, January– March.
1999
Hung Liu; Paintings, Miami University Hiestand Galleries, Oxford, Ohio, November.
Hung Liu, New Work, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, New York, October– November.
Hung Liu, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut, May - June.
1998
Chinese Types, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California, September - October.
Hung Liu: WashingTown Blues, Halsey Gallery at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina, May - June.
Hung Liu: Recent Works, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon, May - June.
Hung Liu: A Ten-Year Survey, 1988-98,
The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio, March-June;
The John and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia, August-October; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, Missouri, November-December; University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California, January-March, 1999; Bowdin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine, April-June, 1999; The Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, September-November, 1999.
1997
Hung Liu’s New Work, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, New York, October-November.
Hung Liu, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California, June-August.
Hung Liu: Unfolding Memory - Embodying History, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale, New York, March - April.
1996
Hung Liu - You Can’t Go Home Again, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada, October- November
Hung Liu’s New Work, Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, April.
Hung Liu, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California, February- March.
Feudal Remnants, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California, January - February.
Parameters: Hung Liu, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, November, 1995 - January, 1996.
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2008
Half-Life of a Dream, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
2007
In Your Face, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL, June-September.
2006
Visage, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York, June – September.
Visual Politics: The Art of Engagement, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC, April – July.
Intersections: Locating Acts of Courage, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, California, June – July.
Collaboration as a Medium: 25 Years of Pyramid Atlantic, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland, January – March.
Liu, Kunc, Sotic, Stout, Denker, Blood: 4 Printmakers, 2 Curators, The Washington Printmakers Gallery 2006 Invitational, Washington, DC, January.
Majestic Tapestries of Magnolia Editions, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California, November, 2005 – January, 2006.
Visual Politics: the Art of Engagement, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, November, 2005 – March, 2006.
2005
A Motion Picture, The DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, California, November.
A Supernatural Soiree, di Rosa Preserve Gatehouse Gallery, Napa, California, October.
Tapestries by Contemporary Artists, The Judson Gallery of Contemporary and Traditional Art, Los Angeles, California, September, 2005 – January,
2006.
Selected Recent Acquisitions and Highlights, CU Art Museum, Boulder, Colorado, September – October.
Next New, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California, July – September.
Views from Here: Russian and American Screenprints, Lee Gallery, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, July – September.
Artists Interrogate Race and Identity, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July – October.
Eve, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York, July – September.
Five Presses: Selected Works, Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities, Arvada, Colorado, June – August.
Steven Scott Collects, Steven Scott Gallery, Owings Mills, Maryland, June – September.
A Tale to Tell, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, May – September.
Shark & His Ink, Exhibitrek, Boulder, Colorado, May – June.
Surfaced, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, May – July.
Print, Process, Collaboration, Savannah College of Art and Design, Georgia, April – May.
Collaboration as a Medium: Pyramid Atlantic Art Center 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The Pepco Edison Gallery, Washington, DC, March – May.
Pressing Issues, Pressing Images, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, March - June.
Visual Alchemy Phase 2, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, California, March – April.
See the Fine Print: Selected Work from Shark’s Ink, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska, February – May.
The Anniversary Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California, January – February.
2004
Trillium Fund Show, Fort Mason, San Francisco, California, January – February.
Four Galleries: Four Artists, New Prints by Hung Liu with Photographs by Todd Hido, Ghost Ships by John Taylor, and Paintings by David Crimson, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, April – June.
Art of the Americas: Latin America and the United States, 1800 to Now!, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, March – November.
Tamarind: 40 Years, Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, California, February – April.
2003
Global Elegies: Art and Ofrendas for the Dead, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California, October – December.
Across The Divide, Gatov and Werby Art Galleries, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, California, September – October.
Road Trip, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, California, September – October.
At Work: The Art of California Labor, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, California, September – October.
The Other Side, B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, California, September.
Inaugural Anniversary Exhibition, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, California, August – September.
Collection Highlights, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, Aug.– September.
Family Ties: A Contemporary Perspective, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, July – September.
Scenery, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California, July – August.
Seizing the Myths: Arts of Rebellion, Resource Center for Activism and Arts, Gaea Foundation, Washington, DC, June – August.
Trillium Press: Prints from ’00, ’01, ’02, ’03, Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, California, June.
Vertigo: Exhibition and Silent Auction, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, June.
Manifest. Destiny: Contemporary API Activist Artists, Association of Asian American Studies Conference, Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco, California, May.
2002
From Stone & Plate: Contemporary Prints from Tamarind Institute, Phoebe Conley Art Gallery, Cal State Fresno, California, February – March.
Box Art/Art Box, Benefit Auction, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, California, October – November.
Contemporary Printmakers, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, Florida, September – November.
Printworks 2002, Key Tower Gallery, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, Washington, July – October.
First Impressions: The Paulson Press, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California, December 2001 – March 2002.
Art/ Women/ California: Parallels and Intersections, 1950 – 2000, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, July – November.
2001
Winter Work, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California, August – October.
About Face: Considering Portraits, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, June – July.
Digital Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, June - September.
Collecting Our Thoughts: The Community Responds to Art in the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, June – September.
Expanded Visions: Four Women Artists Print the American West, Women of the West Museum, Denver, Colorado.
New Prints 2001 – Summer, International Print Center, New York, May– August.
2000
Critical Masses, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, June.
Text & Subtext – Contemporary Art and Asian Women, Earl Lu Gallery, La Salle- Sia College of the Arts, Singapore, June – July, 2000; Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, October – November, 2000;Artspace, Sydney, Australia, January – February, 2001; Ostasiatiska Museet (Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities), Stockholm, Sweden, September – November, 2001; Stenersenmuseet (Stenersen Museum), Oslo, Norway, March – April, 2002; Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark, July – September, 2002; Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan, December, 2002 – February, 2003; X-Ray Art Centre, Beijing, China, March – May, 2003.
The Big Picture, Benefit Auction, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland, March – April.
Heart of the Future Part 2, Encina Art Gallery, Sacramento, California, March – April.
For Pete’s Sake, The University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, Arizona, February – March.
30+ East Bay Painters & Graphic Artists, The Oakland Museum of California.
Six Degrees of Inspiration, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia Peninsula Fine Arts Center, January - March.
New Work: Painting Today, Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, December, 1999 – March, 2000.
Millennium Messages - Time Capsules, Organized by the Heckscher Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service. Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, Long Island, New York, November, 1999 - January, 2000.
There but for the grace of…Temporary Shelters, Here Here Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, November, 1999 - February, 2000.
1999
California Blend: Tradition and Change, Millard Sheets Gallery, Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, California, September.
23rd International Biennial of Graphic Arts, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June - September.
Into The 21st Century: Selections From The Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, California, May - September.
Outward Bound - American Art at the Brink of the Twenty-First Century, premiere at Meridian’s White-Meyer Galleries, Washington, D.C. May - June,1999; will travel to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Beijing and Shanghai, China; Singapore; and Jakarta, Indonesia.
West Looks East, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, March 1999.
1998
Prints from Paulson Press, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, California, August– September.
Selections from SoHo, Fort Lewis College Art Gallery, Durango, Colorado, August - October.
Bicultural Identities: Three Émigrés from Bosnia, China and Vietnam, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, Florida, April - June.
Unthinkable Tenderness: The Art of Human Rights, Art Department Gallery, College of Creative Arts, San Francisco State University, February – March.
American Stories: Amidst Displacement and Transformation, Japan, 1997 -98.
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, August - October, 1997; Chiba City Museum, Chiba, November - December, 1997; Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui, April - May, 1998; Kurashiki Art City Museum, June - July, 1998; Atorion, Akita, August - September, 1998.
1997
Regionalism/Identity, Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, October - November.
On the Rim, TransAmerica Building, San Francisco, California, June - August.
Traditions/Innovations: Four Northern California Artists, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, June - July.
American Kaleidoscope: Art At The Close Of This Century, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., October, 1996 – February 1997.
1996
Gender - Beyond Memory, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan, September - October.
Objects of Personal Significance, Exhibits USA and Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, national tour through 1998: Eastern Ill. University, 9/1/96- 10/14/96; Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, 1/28/97-3/1/97; The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, NY, 6/9/97-8/11/97; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee, 9/1/97-1/8/98; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, 2/7/98-3/16/98; Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas, 4/6/98-5/19/98; Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin, Florida, 6/9/98-8/11/98; Metropolitan State College, Center for Visual Arts, Denver, CO, 9/1/98-10/14/98.
Excavating Culture, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont, May - November.