1948 Born, Changchun, China
EDUCATION
1986
M.F.A., Visual Arts, Univ. of California, San Diego
1981
Graduate Student (MFA Equivalent), Mural Painting, Central Academy of
Fine Art, Beijing, China
1975
B.F.A., Education, Beijing Teachers College, Beijing, China
AWARDS AND HONORS
1996
San Francisco Women's Center Humanities Award, San Francisco, CA
1994
International Association of Art Critics Award (U.S. section) for the
best show of the 1993-94 season by an emerging artist for the exhibition
Jiu Jin Shan: Old Gold Mountain, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum, Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
1993
The Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship, San Francisco, CA
1992
SECA (Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art), San Francisco,
CA
1991
NEA, National Endowment for the Arts, Painting Fellowship, Washington,
D.C.
1989
NEA, National Endowment for the Arts, Painting Fellowship, Washington,
D.C.
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS, SPECIAL PROJECTS
1996
The Long Wharf, #1 Embacardero Center, 41st floor, San Francisco, CA
1995
Fortune Cookie, San Jose Museum of Art and the City of San Jose, CA
1992
Map No. 33, Moscone Convention Center, Esplanade Ballroom Lobby, San
Francisco, CA
1988
Reading Room, Capp Street Project at the Community Room of "Chinese
for Affirmative Action", Kuo Building, Chinatown, San Francisco,
CA
1986
Up and Tao, Media Center and Communications Building, University of
California, San Diego, CA
1981
The Music of the Great Earth, Foreign Students Dining Hall, Central
Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2002
Hung Liu, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
2001
A Retrospective of Contemporary Paintings by Hung Liu, Ellen Noel Art
Museum of the Permian Basin, Odessa, TX
Studio Sessions: New Paintings by Hung Liu, Craft & Cultural Arts
Department, City of Oakland & State Of California Gallery, Oakland,
CA
Between History and Me: New Paintings by Hung Liu, Arizona State University
Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
2000
Where is Mao?2000, The Art Center, Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkom
University, Bangkok, Thailand
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
1999
The Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME
University of California-San Diego, La Jolla, CA
1998
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO
The John and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA
Hung Liu: A Survey, 1988-1998, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster,
OH
College Of Charleston, Charleston, SC
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
1997
Hung Liu: New Paintings, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
Hung Liu: Unfolding Memory*Picturing History, Center for Curatorial
Studies Museum, Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, NY
1996
Feudal Remnants, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Focus: Hung Liu, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Hung Liu: You Can't Go Home Again, University of Nevada, Donna Beam
Fine Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
1995
The Last Dynasty, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
Hung Liu, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia and Mills College
Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
Can-ton: The Baltimore Series, The Contemporary, Baltimore, MD
1994
The Year of the Dog, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY(catalogue)
Tales of Chinese Women, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan,
WI
Iie Jin Shan: Old Gold Mountain, Installation, M.H. De Young Memorial
Museum, Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, CA
Hung Liu: Paintings and Installation, Fine Arts Gallery, University
of California at Irvine, CA
1993
Hung Liu: New Work, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992
Hung Liu: Sittings, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
1991
Bad Women, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990
Trauma, Diverseworks, Houston, TX
1989
Goddesses of Love and Liberty, Nahan Contemporary, New York, NY
Chinese Pieta, a mixed media installation, Women's Building, Los Angeles,
CA
Trauma, a mixed media installation, Sushi Gallery, San Diego, CA
Where is Mao?, Brown-Lupton Gallery, Texas Christian University, Fort
Worth, TX
1988
Where is Mao?, Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CA
Resident Alien, Capp Street Project, Monadnock Building, San Francisco,
CA
Reading Room, Capp Street Project, Kuo Building, San Francisco, CA
1986
Canto, Annex Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
1985
Grotto Variations, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada,
Reno, NV
1981
Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002
Art/Woman/California: Parallels and Intersections, 1950-2000, San Jose
Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2001
Show Time, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Winter Work, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
About Face: Considering Portraits, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco,
CA
Collecting Our Thoughts: The Community Responds to Art in the Permanent
Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2000
30+ East Bay Painters and Graphic Artists, The Oakland Museum, Oakland,
CA
For Pete's Sake, University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, AZ
Heart of the Future Part 2, Encina Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
Text and Subtext- Contemporary Art and Asian Women, Earl Lu Gallery,
La Salle-Sia College of Arts, Singapore
Critical Masses, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Millenium Message- Time Capsules, Heckscher Museum of Art and the Smithsonian
Institute, Washington, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1998
Prints from Paulson Press, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Atorion, Akita Prefectural Cultural Hall, Akita, Japan
Kurashiki Art City Museum
Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui
Unthinkable Tenderness: The Art of Human Rights, SFSU, CA
Rights of Spring, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY
Bicultural Identities: Three Emigres from Bosnia, China, and Vietnam,
Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL
1997
American Stories-Amidst Displacement and Trasformation, Setagaya Art
Museum, Tokyo; Chiba City
Museum of Art, Chiba; Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui; Kurashiki City
Museum of Art;
On the Rim, TransAmerica Building, San Francisco, CA
Traditions/Innovations: Four Northern California Artists, Crocker Art
Museum, Sacramento, CA
Fort Wayne Museum of Art: Purchase Show, Fort Wayne, IN
1996
American Kaleidoscope: Art at the Close of this Century, The National
Museum of American Art,
Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C. (catalogue)
Gender...Beyond Memory, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo,
Japan
Excavating Culture, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro,
VT
1995
Reinventing the Emblem: Contemporary Artists Recreate a Renaissance
Idea, Yale University Art
Gallery, New Haven, CT (catalogue)
Making Faces: American Portraits, The Hudson River Museum of Westchester,
NY
About Faces, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
The Public Art of Re-Collection, San Jose Cultural Affairs, San Jose,
CA
Dis-Oriented: Shifting Identities of Asian Women in America, Steinbaum
Krauss Gallery, New York, NY and The Henry Street Settlement, New York,
NY (catalogue)
1994
Memories of Childhood: so we're not the Cleavers or the Brady Bunch,
Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art, Asia Society
Galleries, New York, NY (traveling exhibition and catalogue)
New Voices, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma,
WA
1993
The 43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, The Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Picasso to Christo: The Evolution of a Collection, Santa Barbara Museum
of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Narratives of Loss: The Displaced Body, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,
Art Museum
In Transit, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY
Backtalk, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Twelve Bay Area Painters: The Eureka Fellowship Winners, San Jose Museum
of Art, San Jose, CA
1992
In Plural America: Contemporary Journeys, Voices and Identities, Hudson
River Museum, Yonkers, NY
SECA Art Award 1992, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (catalogue)
Counterweight: Alienation, Assimilation, Resistance, Santa Barbara Contemporary
Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Virgin Territories, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Social Figuration, San Diego State University Art Gallery, San Diego,
CA
Decoding Gender, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
Members Gallery: Invitational, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Why Painting-Part I, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1991
Counter Colón-lalismo, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego,
CA (traveling exhibition and catalogue)
Mito y Magia en America: los Ochenta, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de
Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Diverse Directions, TransAmerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA
Viewpoints: Eight Installations, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1990
Official Language, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute,
San Francisco, CA
Precarious Links: Emily Jennings, Hung Liu and Celia Munoz, San Antonio
Museum of Art, Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, TX (catalogue)
No Trends, Nahan Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY
Memory/Reality, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
1987
Art in Metroplex, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
UTA Faculty: New Work, UTA Center for Research in Contemporary Art,
University of Texas, Arlington, TX
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1995-present
Associate Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1990-1995
Assistant Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1989-1990
Assistant Professor of Art, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas,
through 1990
1987
Adjunct Professor, Chinese Art History, University of Texas, Arlington
1981-84
Professor of Art, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China, from
1981
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
AT&T Corporation
Baruch College, William & Anita Newman Library, CUNY, NY
City of San Francisco, CA, Public Art Program
Crestar Bank, Richmond, VA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Kemper Museum of Art & Design, Kansas City, MO
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Mills College, Oakland, CA
Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg,
VA
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C.
Rutgers Archives, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS
The St. Paul Companies, St. Paul, MN
University of Arizona, Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ