Artworks by Hung Liu at Nancy Hoffman Gallery on artnet

Hung Liu

(American/Chinese, 1948–2021)

Hung Liu

Untitled (Prostitute with Dandelion), 2022

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Hung Liu

Plowboy-Gold, 2020

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Hung Liu

Bubbles, 2007

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Hung Liu

Mission Girls Series (I) 09-03, 2013

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Hung Liu

Mission Girls Series (I) 01-1, 2013

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Hung Liu

Little White Fan, 2013

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Hung Liu

Red Tie Mountain Boy, 2012

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Hung Liu

Rusalka, 2015

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Hung Liu

Year of the Dragon, Red Doudon, 2012

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Hung Liu

The Journey, 2018

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Biography

Timeline

1948: Born in Changchun, China
1975: Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Art and Art Education, Beijing Teachers College, Beijing, China
1981 - 1984: Professor of Art, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
1981: Graduate Student (MFA equivalent) Mural Painting, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
1986: Master of Fine Arts Degree in Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, CA
1987: Adjunct Professor, Chinese Art History, Department of Art, University of Texas, Arlington, TX
1989 - 1990: Assistant Professor of Art, University of Norh Texas, Denton, TX
1990 - 1995: Assistant Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1993: Eureka Fellowship, The Fleischhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA
1995 - 2001: Associate Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1996: San Francisco Women’s Center Humanities Award, San Francisco, CA
1998: The Joan Mitchell Foundation, Inc. Painters Sculptors Grant, New York, NY
2001: Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, CA
: Lives and works in Oakland, California, CA

Exhibitions

2013: Questions from the Sky: New Work by Hung Liu, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (solo)
: Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA (solo)
: Qian Shan: Grandfather’s Mountain, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Hung Liu: Offerings, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA (solo)
2012: Cycle: New Works by Hung Liu, di Rosa Gatehouse Gallery, Napa, CA (solo)
: Happy and Gay, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Forty Years, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
: Women: By, Of, About, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY
: TBA, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MI, USA (solo)
: Za Zhong, Diehl Gallery, Jackson, WY, USA (solo)
: Hung Liu, Elizabeth de Brabant Gallery, Shanghai, China (solo)
: First Spring Thunder Alexander Ochs Gallery, Beijing, China (solo)
2011: Dawn Blossoms Plucked at Dusk, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
: Pressed Memory, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM, USA (solo)
: ZZs @ Za Za!, Turner Carroll Gallery @ Hotel Za Za, Dallas, TX, USA (solo)
: Leap, Andrew Bae Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA (solo)
: Apsaras / 飞天, Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO, USA (solo)
: Sundown of the Last Dynasty: Tapestries and New Prints by Hung Liu, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, December 05, USA (solo)
: Drawing from Life and Death, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA (solo)
: The Layers, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID, USA (solo)
: Earthquake Sketchbook, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO, USA (solo)
: Za Zhong, 10 Chancery Lane, Hong Kong, China (solo)
2010: Richter Scale, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL, USA (solo)
: "Indelible Ink," Museum of Contemporary Art Denver Denver, Colorado
: Cycles, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA (solo)
: Hung Liu: Migration/Immigration, Curated by Michael Schwager, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California, USA (solo)
: Galeria Omar Alonso Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (solo)
: Hung Liu: Remote Portraits, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (solo)
2009: Hung Liu, Prodigal Daughters, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China (solo)
: Hung Liu: Prints & Paintings, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho, USA (solo)
: San Francisco Museum of Art San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Rat Years, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA (solo)
: SCAD – Atlanta, ACA Gallery of SCAD, Atlanta, Georgia, USA (solo)
: Hung Liu: Memorial Grounds 1988 – 2006, SCAD – Savannah, Pei Ling Chang Gallery, Savannah, Georgia, USA (solo)
: Santa Clara University Santa Clara, CA (solo)
: Savannah College of Art and Design Savannah, GA (solo)
: Hung Liu: Now and Then, Fred Jones Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma Norman, OK (solo)
: Tai Cang (Great Granary), Xin Beijing Art Gallery (XBAG) Beijing, China (solo)
: “Ying: Inspired by the Art and History of China,” The Museum of Art and History Santa Cruz, CA
: Hung Liu: New Work, Turner Carroll Gallery Santa Fe, NM (solo)
: “Being China,” Saint Vincent Gallery Latrobe, PA
: “Far From Home,” North Carolina Museum of Art Raleigh, NC
: “Crouching Paper, Hidden Dragon: Works on Paper,” F2 Gallery Beijing, China
: Logan Collection,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2008: “Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the San Francisco, CA
: Prodigal Daughter, F2 Gallery Beijing, China (solo)
: “New Year, New Gifts,” San Jose Museum of Art San Jose, CA
: “Contemporary Prints from Shark's Ink,” Art Space Jackson, WY
: “Big Picture: Provisions for the Arts of Social Change,” Nathan Cummings Foundation New York, NY
: “Ten Tapestries from Magnolia Editions,” Richard L. Nelson Gallery Davis, CA
: “High Fiber,” American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center Washington, DC
: “In Your Face,” Bernice Steinbaum Gallery Miami, FL
: “Home Sweet Home,” San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art San Jose, CA
: “Contemporary Combustion: Chinese Artists in America” New Britain Museum of Art New Britain, CT
: “A Tribute to Peter Selz,” B. Sakata Garo Gallery Sacramento, CA
: “Women's Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers,” Salem, OR
: “Continuum: Innovative Prints from 1992 - 2007,” Pyramid Atlantic Art Center Silver Spring, MD
: Matriarchs, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida, USA (solo)
: Hung Liu: Old Road, West Wind, iPreciation Gallery, Singapore (solo)
: Hung Liu - Za Zhang: Bastard Painting, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, USA (solo)
: Hung Liu: New Work, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA (solo)
2007: Daughters of China, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
: Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University
: Hung Liu: Za Zhong - Bastard Paintings, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York, USA (solo)
: Matriarchy: Hung Liu’s New Work, Art Scene China Warehouse, Shanghai, China (solo)
: Hung Liu: Za Zhong – Bastard Paintings, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York
: Hung Liu: New Work, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
: The Vanishing: Re-presenting the Chinese in the American West, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming
: Full Circle: Revolutions in the Paintings of Hung Li, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey, USA
2006: Hung Liu: Matriarchy, Art Scene Warehouse, Shanghai, China
2005: Hung Liu: Female Radical Nu Zi Pang, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York
: Hung Liu: An Exhibition of New Works, Trillium Press, Cal
: Hung Liu: A Decade of Paintings, Guilford College, North Carolina
: The Vanishing: Re-presenting the Chinese in the American West, Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah & Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon & University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho
: Relic: New Paintings, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
2004: Hung Liu: Lament, Art Scene China and Art Scene Warehouse, Shanghai, China
: Hung Liu Solo Exhibition, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Missouri
2003: New Prints by Hung Liu, Paulson Press, California
: Geography of Memory: Selected Works by Hung Liu, Monterey Museum of Art, California
: Hung Liu: Revolutionary Daughter, Michael Berger Gallery, Pennsylvania
: Hung Liu: Toward Peng-Lai (Paradise), Rena Bransten Gallery, California
: Hung Liu: Works on Paper, B. Sakata Garo Gallery, California
: Art/Woman/California: Parallels and Intersections, 1950-2000, San Jose Museum of Art, CA
2002: Strange Fruit: New Paintings by Hung Liu, Organized by Arizona State University Art Museum, Tepe, AZ and Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID (solo)
: Hung Liu, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL (solo)
2001: “Hung Liu", Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
: A Retrospective of Contemporary Paintings by Hung Liu, Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin, Odessa, TX (solo)
: Hiu Yin (echoes), Mabel Smith Douglass Library, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ (solo)
: Studio Sessions: New Paintings by Hung Liu, Craft and Cultural Arts Department, City of Oakland and State of California Gallery, Oakland, CA (solo)
: Collecting Our Thoughts: The Community Responds to Art in the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, CA
: Digital Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
: About Face: Considering Portraits, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Winter Work, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
: Show Time, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Critical Masses, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
: Paper Cuts, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
: Text and Subtext - Contemporary Art and Asian Women, Earl Lu Gallery, La Salle-Sia College of the Arts, Singapore
: The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT (solo)
: The View from Here, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
: Hung Liu, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO (solo)
: Where is Mao? 2000, The Art Center, Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkom University, Bangkok, Thailand (solo)
2000: New Paintings, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Hung Liu, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
1999: “Hung Liu,” the Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut (solo)
: “Hung Liu; Paintings”, Miami University Hiestand Galleries, Oxford, Ohio (solo)
: Hung Liu, New Work, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Hung Liu: A Survey, 1988 - 1998, The College of Wooster Art Museum Wooster, OH(solo)
1998: “Chinese Types,” Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California (solo)
1997: Hung Liu, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery NYC (solo)
: “Hung Liu,” Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California (solo)
: "Hung Liu: Unfolding Memory - Embodying History”, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale, New York (solo)
1996: Branches, Joy Pratt Markham Gallery Fayetteville, AR (solo)
: Feudal Remnants, Rena Bransten Gallery San Francisco (solo)
: Focus, Fort Wayne Museum of Art Fort Wayne, IN (solo)
: "Can-ton, the Baltimore Series,” Baltimore Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland (solo)
1995: The Last Dynasty, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery NYC (solo)
: "Hung Liu- Paintings and Installation," University of California at Irvine, Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine, California (solo)
: “Tales of Chinese Women,” John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin (solo)
1994: Jiu Jin Shan: Old Gold Mountain, Installation, M.H. De Young Memorial Museum San Francisco (solo)
1993: New Work, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
: Two Small Bodies, Churchill County Library, Churchill Arts Council, Fallon, Nevada, USA (solo)
1992: "Sittings," Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York (solo)
1991: Bad Women, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
1990: "Trauma, 1989" mixed media installation, Diverseworks, Houston, Texas (solo)
: Where is Mao?, an installation of an ironic memorial to Mao Tse Tung, version II, Brown-Lupton Gallery, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas, USA (solo)
: Trauma, mixed-media installation, Sushi Gallery, San Diego, California, USA (solo)
1989: Goddesses of Love and Liberty, Nahan Contemporary Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
: Chinese Pieta, mixed-media installation, The Women's Building, Los Angeles, California. USA (solo)
1988: Where is Mao?, an installation of an ironic memorial to Mao Tse Tung, Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, California, USA (solo)
: Resident Alien, an off-site installation of the Capp Street Project, Monadnock Building, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
: Figures, Brazos Gallery, Richland College, Dallas, Texas, USA (solo)
: Where is Mao?, an installation of an ironic memorial to Mao Tse Tung, Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, California, USA (solo)
: Resident Alien, an off-site installation of the Capp Street Project, Monadnock Building, San Francisco, California, USA (solo)
: Figures, Brazos Gallery, Richland College, Dallas, Texas, USA (solo)
1987: Combinations, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (solo)
: Once There Were Ten Suns, a dual-site mixed-media installation, D-Art Visual Art Center & South Dallas Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas, USA (solo)
1986: Canto, installation, MFA exhibition, Annex Gallery, University of California, San Diego, USA (solo)
1985: Grotto Variations, mural installation, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, USA (solo)

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Public Collections

Robert & Karen Duncan, Lincoln, NE, USA

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, USA

Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA

First Western Trust Bank, Denver, CO, USA

Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN, USA

Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, USA

National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA

The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA, USA

The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco-H. M. de Young Memorial Museum, CA, USA

Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA, USA

Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

Baruch College, William & Anita Newman Library, City University of New York, NY, USA

Los Angeles County Museum, CA, USA

Santa Clara University, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA, USA

The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, USA

Oakland Museum of California, CA, USA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, USA

Library of Congress, Washington, DC, USA

Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC, USA

National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC, USA

Oakland International Airport, Port of Oakland, CA, USA

The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA

San Francisco International Airport, CA, USA

San Jose Museum of Art, CA, USA

Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL, USA

Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH, USA

Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE, USA

Dallas Museum of Art, TX, USA

San Francisco Federal Building, San Francisco, CA, USA

Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN, USA

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, USA

Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA, USA

Ann Hatch, San Francisco, CA, USA

Joan Danforth, San Francisco, CA, USA

Catherine Muther, San Francisco, CA, USA

Mr. & Mrs. Mark Lerdal, San Francisco, CA, USA

Diane Middlebrook & Carl Djerassi, London, UK

Ed & Linda Blackburn, Fort Worth, TX, USA

Janet Holmgren, Oakland, CA, USA

Aaron & Marion Borenstein, Ft. Wayne, IN, USA

Jan & Roger Hoffman, Tallahassee, FL, USA

Esther S. Weissman, Cleveland, OH, USA

John & Darcy Hadjipateras, Stanford, CT, USA

Gerald & Ellen Sigal, Washington D.C., USA

Eric & Barbara Dobkin, New York, NY, USA

Christine Wheeler, New York, NY, USA

Edward Downe, Baltimore, MD, USA

Mills College, Oakland, CA, USA

Shari & Garen Staglin, Napa, CA, USA

Dick & Ann Grace, St. Helena, CA, USA

Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID, USA

Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, USA

Larry Evans Fine Art, San Francisco, CA, USA

King County Public Art Collection, Seattle, WA, USA

Interra Financial, Minneapolis, MN, USA

The St. Paul Companies, St. Paul, MN, USA

Peter & Nancy Gennet, Napa, CA, USA

AT & T Corporation

City of Cerritos, Cerritos Library, CA, USA

City of San Jose, CA, USA

City of San Francisco, Public Art Program, CA, USA

Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ, USA

Bernice & Harold Steinbaum, Miami, FL, USA

Emily & Dick Shieh, San Diego, CA, USA

Free Clinic, San Francisco, CA, USA

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA

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Hung Liu

(American/Chinese, 1948–2021)

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