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Hung Liu
1948 Changchun, China
EDUCATION
1975 BFA in Education, Beijing Teachers College, Beijing, China
1981 Graduate Student (MFA equivalent)Mural Painting, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
1986 MFA in Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, CA.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1981-84 Professor of Art, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
1987 Adjunct Professor, Chinese Art History, University of Texas, Arlington, TX
1989-90 Assistant Professor of Art, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
1990-95 Assistant Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1995-2001 Associate Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, CA
2001-Present Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, CA
GRANTS AND AWARDS
1984-86 Research Assistantship, University of California, San Diego Tuition Scholarship, University of California, San Diego
1985 Russell Foundation Grant, University of California, San Diego
1986 Graduate Student Research Grant, University of California, San Diego
1986-87 Stipend, Friends of the International Center, University of California, San Diego
1988 Capp Street Project Stipend, San Francisco, CA
1989 National Endowment for the Arts, Painting Fellowship
1990 Contemporary Art by Women of Color, Guadalupe Cultural Center, San Antonio, Texas. Artists' Award. Jurors: Lucy Lippard, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Yong Sun Min
1991 Public Art Commission, Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA
1991 Faculty Research Grant for travel and research, Mills College, Oakland, CA
1991 National Endowment for the Arts, Painting Fellowship
1992 S.E.C.A. Award, San Francisco, CA
1993 Eureka Fellowship, The Fleishhacher Foundation, San Francisco, CA
1996 San Francisco Women's Center Humanities Award, San Francisco, CA
1998 The Joan Mitchell Foundation, Inc. Painters Sculptors Grant, New York, NY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1981 "The Music of the Great Earth", permanent mural, Foreign Students Dining Hall, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China
1985 "Grotto Variations", mural installation, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, NV
1985 "Up and Tao", permanent mural installation, interior stairwell, Media Center and Communications Building, Univ. of California, San Diego, CA
1986 "Canto," Annex Gallery, UCSD, San Diego, CA
1986 "Art and the Tao," (permanent mural) Media Center and Communications Building, UCSD, San Diego, CA
1987 "Once there were Ten Suns...", a dual-site mixed media installation, D-Art Visual Art Center, South Dallas Cultural Center, TX
1987 "Combinations", Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
1988 "Figures", Brazos Gallery, Richard College, Dallas, TX
1988 "Reading Room", a permanent, public, off-site mural installation of the Capp Street Project, at the Community Room of "Chinese for Affirmative Action, Kuo Building, Chinatown, San Francisco,CA
1988 "Resident Alien", an off-site installation of the Capp Street Project, Monadnock Building, San Francisco, CA
1988 "Where is Mao?", an installation of an ironic memorial to Mao Tse Tung, Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, CA
1989 "Where is Mao?", an installation of an ironic memorial to Mao Tse Tung, version II, Brown-Lupton Gallery, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX
1989 "Trauma", a mixed media installation about the illness of an age-old nation, Sushi Gallery, San Diego
1989 "Chinese Pieta", a mixed media exhibition about the June 4th crackdown in China, The Woman's Building, Los Angeles, CA
1989 "Goddess of Love and Liberty", an exhibition of paintings and drawings, Nahan Contemporary Gallery, New York, NY
1990 "Trauma, 1989", mixed media installation, Diverseworks, Houston, TX
1991 "Bad Women," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 "Sittings," Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY
1993 "Two Small Bodies," Churchill County Library Churchill County Arts Council, Fallon, NV
1990 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Catalogue)
1994 "Tales of Chinese Women," John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
1994 "Jiu Jin Shan," de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
1994 "Hung Liu: Identity Fragments," Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Porter College, University of California at Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
1994 "Hung Liu: Paintings and Installation," Fine Arts Gallery, University of California at Irvine, CA
1995 "Can-ton: the Baltimore Series," The Contemporary (at the Canton National Bank), Baltimore, MD
1995 "The Last Dynasty," Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
1995 "Tradewind," Ohlone College, Fremont, CA
1995 "Hung Liu," The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA, show travels to Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
1995 "Feudal Remnants," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 "Branches," Joy Pratt Markham Gallery, Walton Arts Center, Fayetteville, AK
1995 "Focus: Hung Liu," Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
1995 "Hung Liu - You Can't Go Home Again," Univ. of Nevada, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
1995 "Hung Liu New Work," Horwitch Lew Allen Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1997 "Hung Liu: Unfolding Memory*Picturing History," BARD, Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale on Hudson, NY
1997 Crealde School, Winter Park, FL
1997 Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Halsey Gallery, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
1997 Golden Gate University, San Francisco, CA
1998 "Hung Liu: A Survey, 1988-1998," The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH, Traveled to: Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
1998 "Hung Liu: WashingTown Blues," College of Charleston, Charleston, SC
1998 "Chinese Types," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Catalogue)
1998 Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR
1999 Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2000 LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2000 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 "Where is Mao? 2000," The Art Center, Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkom University, Bangkok, Thailand
2000 The Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT
2001 "Between History and Me: New Painting by Hung Liu" Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, Traveling to: Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
2001 "Studio Sessions: New Paintings by Hung Liu" Craft & Cultural Arts Department, City of Oakland & State of California Gallery, Oakland, CA
2001 "A Retrospective of Contemporary Paintings by Hung Liu" Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin, Odessa, TX
2002 "Hung Liu" Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
2002 "Prints by Hung Liu" de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
2002 "Strange Fruit: New Paintings by Hung Liu," Organized and exhibited at Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ and Boise Art Museum Boise, ID. Traveling (Catalogue)
2002-2003 "Complex Puzzles, New Work: Hung Liu," Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
2002-2003 "Stange Fruit: New Paintings by Hung Liu," Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA (Catalogue)
2003 "Stange Fruit: New Paintings by Hung Liu," Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA (Catalogue)
2003 "Hung Liu," Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
2003 "Hung Liu: Towards Peng-Lai (Paradise)," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1978 "Portraiture Exhibition", Winter Palace Gallery, Beijing, China
1980 "National Fine Arts Colleges Exhibition", a traveling group show of selected graduate student works
1987 "Texas Sculpture Symposium", exhibiting artist: I Am Not A Cubist (Foot in Mouth)", San Antonio, TX
1987 "UTA Faculty: New Work", UTA Center for Research in Contemporary Art, University of Texas at Arlington
1987 "Art in the Metroplex", Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, juror: Donald Kuspit
1988 "Artists for Amnesty", Dallas Public Library, Dallas, TX
1988 "Four Corners", in "Coast to Coast", an exhibition of books made by women-of- color in collaboration, Curated by Faith Ringgold, Diverse-works, Houston; The Kitchen, New York. In collaboration with Celia Munoz, Vicki Meek, and Mary Hatz
1988 "Fifteen in the Air", an exhibition of works by members of the Artists-in-Residence Program, Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno
1990 "Memory/Reality", Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
1990 "Contemporary Art by Women of Color", Hemisfair Plaza, San Antonio, TX
1990 "Pieta", A collaborative installation with Diana Cardenas, Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX
1990 "The Vessel", an artist organized exhibition exploring the vessel as metaphor, Dallas, TX
1990 "No Trends", Nathan Contemporary, New York, NY
1990 "Precarious Links: Emily Jennings, Hung Liu, Celia Munoz", San Antonio Museum of Art; Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, TX curated by Jim Edwards
1990 "Narrative Contructs - Contemporary Trends by Women Artists of Color", Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin, TX
1990 "Implosion", a three person exhibition with Lawrence Andrews and Lewis deSoto, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, CA
1990 "Official Language", Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1991 "Diverse Directions", Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA
1991 "Mito Y Magia En America: Los Ochenta," Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico
1991 "Counter Colon-ialismo," Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA
1991 "Selected Bay Area Drawings," The Drawing Center, New York, travels to Pro Arts, Oakland, CA
1991 "Viewpoints: Eight Installations," Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1991 "Disparate: Seven Workers," Upaya Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 "Decoding Gender," School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD
1992 "Why Painting-Part 1," curated by Bill Berkson, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
1992 "Self-Portrait: The Changing Self," New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ
1992 "Voices," Shea & Bornstein, Santa Monica, CA
1992 "Virgin Territories," Long Beach Museum of Art, CA
1992 "Counter Weight: Alienation, Assimilation, Resistance," Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
1992 "S.E.C.A. Award," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1992 "Social Figuration," San Diego State University Art Gallery, CA
1992 "In Plural America: Contemporary Journeys, Voices and Identities," Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY (Catalogue)
1992 "Floored Art," Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
1993 "Backtalk," Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
1992 "Eureka Award Winners," San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
1992 "In Visible Past," Curated by May Sun, John Wayne Airport, Costa Mesa, CA
1992 "Redefining Self: 6 Asian Americans," San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
1992 "43rd Annual Corcoran Biennial," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1992 Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
1992 "Picasso to Christo: The Evolution of a Collection," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
1992 "Narratives of Loss: The Displaced Body," University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (Catalogue)
1992 "Self-Portrait: The Changing Self," The New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ (Catalogue)
1992 "In Transit," The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1992 "Multicultural Americana," Florida Community College at Jacksonville Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY
1992 "Women's Art, Women's Lives, Women's Issues," Tweed Gallery, New York, NY
1994 "New Voices," Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
1994 Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY (Catalogue)
1994 "The 43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC (Catalogue)
1994 "Painting: An Asian American Perception," Marjorie Barrick Museum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas and Nevada Museum of Art, Reno (Catalogue)
1994 "Plural America*Singular Journey," The Art Guild, Farmington, CT
1994 "Evolution of the Print, Fourteen Years of Collaboration at Pyramid Atlantic," Addison Ripley Gallery, Washington DC
1994 "Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art," Asia Society Galleries, New York, NY (Catalogue)
1995 "Setting the Stage: A Contemporary View of the West," Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Wester Art, Indianapolis, IN
1995 "Reinventing the Emblem," Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
1995 "About Faces," Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1995 "Making Faces: American Portraits," The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, NY
1995 "The Public Art of Re-Collection," temporary installation, San Jose Cultural Affairs, CA
1995 "Dis-Oriented: Shifting Identities of Asian Women in America," curated byMargo Machida, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, NYC and The Henry Street Settlement, NYC (Catalogue)
1995 "10 x 10," Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, CA
1995 "Asia/ America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art, Asia Society Galleries, New York, New York, traveled to: Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI; Center for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco, CA; List Art Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1995 "Women's Spirit," Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1995 "Garden Variety," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996 "American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art," National Museum of Amercan Art, Washington, DC (Catalogue)
1996 "Gender Beyond Memory: The Works of Contemporary Women Artists," Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan (Catalogue)
1996 "Objects of Personal Significance," Exhibits USA and Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, national tour through 1999 (Catalogue)
1996 "Family in Focus: Cultural Diversity and the Family," The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ
1996 "Excavating Culture," Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, VT
1997 "American Stories: Amidst Displacement & Transformation," Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1997 "Traditons/Inovations: Four Northern California Arts," Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
1997 "On the Rim," TransAmerica Building, San Francisco, CA
1997-98 "American Stories-Amidst Displacement and Transformation," Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; Chiba City Museum of Art, Chiba; Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Kukui; Kurashiki City Museum of Art; Atorion, Akita Prefectural Cultural Hall, Akita, Japan
1998 "Unthinkable Tenderness: The Art of Human Rights," SFSU, CA
1998 "Rights of Spring," P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York. NY
1998 "East Meets East in the West," LIMN Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Catalogue)
1998 "Bicultural Identities: Three Emigres from Bosnia, China and Veitnam," Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, FL
1998 "Concerning the Figure," University Art Gallery, CSU Hayward, CA
1998 "Hung Liu: A Ten Year Survey," The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, MA, Traveled to: Muscarelle Museum or Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO (Catalogue)
1999 "Hung Liu: A Ten Year Survey," organized by The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, MA, Traveled to: University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC
1999 "Into the 21st Century," Selections from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, CA (Catalogue)
2000 "Paper Cuts" Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 "The View from Here" Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2000 "Millennium Message - Time Capsules" Heckscher Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institute, Washingoton CA, Traveling
2000 "Critical Masses" Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2000 "Text and Subtext - Contemporary Art and Asian Women" Earl Lu Gallery, La Salle-Sia College of the Arts, Singapore, Traveling
2000 "Heart of the Future Part 2" Encina Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2000 "For Pete's Sake" the University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, AZ
2000 "30+ East Bay Painters & Graphic Artists" The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
2000 "New Work: Painting Today, Recent Acquisitions" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
2000 "There but for the grace of....Temporary Shelters" Here Here Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2000 "Expanded Visions: Four Women Artists Print the American West" Women of the West Museum, Denver, CO
2001 "Collecting Our Thoughts: The Community Responds to Art in the Permanent Collection" San Jose Museum of Art, CA
2001 "Digital Printmaking Now" Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2001 "About Face: Considering Portraits" Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2001 "Winter Work" Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, CA
2001 "Show Time" Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 "Art/Woman/California: Parallels and Intersections, 1950-2000" San Jose Museum of Art, CA
2002 "Contemporary Printmakers," J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, FL
2002 "Printworks 2002," Key Tower Gallery, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, WA
2002 "First Impressions: The Paulson Press" San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2002 "Oakland Portraits: Then and Now, 1852-2002," Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
2002 "Summer Show" Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, ID
2002-2003 "Text & Subtext," Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan, Republic of China
2003 "From Stone & Plate: Contemporary Prints from Tamarind Institute," Phoebe Conley Art Gallery, California State University, Fresno, CA
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
AT&T Corporartion
Baruch College, William & Anita Newman Library, CUNY, NY
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
City & County of San Francisco, Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, CA
City of San Jose, CA Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design, Kansas City, MO
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Mills College, Oakland, CA
Muscarelle Museum of art, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC
The Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
Rutgers Archives, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
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
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2002-03 Projects Space, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
2002 Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, Aubusson
Galerie Jack Hanley, San Francisco
Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris
2001 Ecole des Arts Decoratifs de Limoges Fondos Regional d'Art Contemporain, Auverigne, Ciemont-Ferrand
2000 Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris
1997 Galerie Valleix, Paris
1996 Galerie du Haut Pavel, Paris
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002 "Celebrating 30 Years," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
"de singuliers debordements," Galerie du Wazoo, Amiens, France, Maison de la Culture d'Amiens, Amiens, France
Ecole des Beaux Arts de Rennes
Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Valence
Galeries du Rutebeuf, Clichy
"Summer," Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
Theatre de Clichy, Clichy, France
"Voila la France," Il Filatoio, Caraglio;
Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio;
L'Ala, Savigliano; Le Serre Reali, Racconigi, Italy
2001 Centre Culturel de Beauvais Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris Maison de la Culture d'Amiens
2000 "Au dernieres nouvelles," Fondos Regional d'Art Contemporain, Auvergne Galerie Philippe Casini, Paris
1997 Austerlitz Ailleure, Galerie Valleix, Paris
1996 Austerlitz Autrement , Galerie Vailleix, Paris
1992 Parc de la Villette, Le Chamber, Paris Parc Floral, Pavillon des Arts, Paris
1990 Chapelle de la Salpetriere, Paris
COLLECTIONS
Artotheque de Limoges
Fondos Regional d'Art Contemporain, Auvergne
FMAC, Paris
FNAC, Paris Musee
Ohara, Japan
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