Hung Liu (1948-2021, b. Changchun, China) received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Art and Art Education in 1975 from Beijing Teachers College, her Master of Fine Arts in Mural Painting from Central Academy of Fine Art in 1981, and her Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from University of California, San Diego in 1986. She has received many awards, grants, and recognitions, some of which include the Capp Street Project Stipend, San Francisco, CA, and the Contemporary Art by Women of Color Artists’ Award from the Guadalupe Cultural Center in San Antonio, TX. Since 1990, Liu has been a professor of painting at Mills College, Oakland, CA. She was one of the first artists from China to establish a career in the United States.
Liu has exhibited widely internationally including solo and group exhibitions at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; University of Oregon Museum of Art, Eugene, OR; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA; de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA; Mills College Art Museum, Oakland,CA; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.; among many others.
Liu’s works are in the permanent collections of Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA; and more.