Hung Liu’s resin paintings are hybrids of the painting and printmaking processes, composed of many alternating layers of resin and oil-based pigment. The glass like metallic surfaces result in complex paintings bearing a three-dimensional aspect and depth.
 
Hung Liu was born in Changchun, China in 1948, grew up in Beijing – where she was trained at the Central Academy of Fine Art - and moved to California in 1984.  Her work is included in the collections of San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco – M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, Los Angeles County Museum, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., to name a few.
 
Hung Liu invented this new approach to make works with master printer, David Salgado five years ago, creating a revolutionary visual language. It is with this enduring exploration and innovation in fine art printmaking that won Hung Liu the SGC International 2011 Award for Lifetime Achievement in Printmaking (USA), among preceding winners including Chuck Close, William Wiley, Warrington Colescott, Xu Bing, and others.
 
Further on her long-standing exploration on courage and strength of women in her paintings, Liu continues to delve into social, political, historical aspects of China's past regimes as "subject" for her works, using old photographs as source material.  As a bi-cultural citizen, she is in a position to re-present and re-examine Chinese culture, past and present, while combining images from her own life experience.