1948
Born in Changchun China
2001-Present
Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, California
1995-2001
Associate Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, California
1990-1995 Assistant Professor of Art, Mills College,
Oakland, California
1989-1990
Assistant Professor of Art, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
1987
Adjunct Professor (Chinese At History), Department of Art,
University of Texas at Arlington
1981-1984
Professor of Art, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China

Education
1975
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Art and Art Education,
Beijing Teachers College, China
1981
Graduate Degree (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

Awards
2000
Outstanding Alumna Award, University of California, San Diego
1999
Joan and Robert Danforth Distinguished Professorship in the
Arts Endowed Chair, Mills College, Oakland, California
1998
The Joan Mitchell Foundation, Inc., Painters and Sculptors Grant
1996
“Hometown Heroes, Oakland Artists Who Have Made A Difference,”
proclaimed by Elihu M. Harris, Mayor of the City of Oakland, California
1996
San Francisco Women’s Center Humanities Award,
San Francisco
1995
International Association of Art Critics (US Section), Best Exhibition
by an Emerging Artist, 1993-94 Season: “Jiu Jin Shan,”
De Young Museum, 1994.
1995
Art in America, “Art World Awards”, Vol. 38, No. 5, p134.
1993
Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship, San Francisco
1992
Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art (SECA) Award,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1991
National Endowment for the Arts, Painting Fellowship
1989
National Endowment for the Arts, Painting Fellowship
1988
Capp Street Project Stipend

Selected Collections
- Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California
- Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
- San Jose Museum of Art, CA
- The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
- The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
- The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
- The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
- Oakland Museum of California, CA
- The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco-H.M. de Young Memorial Museum, CA
- San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
- Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
- Washington Convention Center, Washington DC
- Library of Congress, Washington DC
- National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
- National Museum of Women in Arts, Washington DC
- Los Angeles County Museum, CA
- Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
- Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
- Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
- Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
- Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
- Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
- Mills College, Oakland, CA
- Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
- Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
- Santa Clara University, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
- Baruch College, William &Anita Newman Library,
City University of New York, NY
- The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
- Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
- Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri
- Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art
Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
- City of San Francisco, Public Art Program, CA
- City of San Jose, CA
- City of Cerritos, Cerritos Library, CA
- Free Clinic, San Francisco, CA
- AT & T Corporation
- The St. Paul Companies, St. Paul, MN
- lnterra Financial, Minneapolis, MN
- King County Public Art Collection, Seattle, WA
- Larry Evans Fine Art, San Francisco, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007
“Hung Liu: Old Road, West Wind”, iPreciation, Singapore
2006
“Hung Liu: New Work”, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, California
“Matriarchy: Hung Liu’s New Work”, Art Scene China Warehouse, Shanghai
“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 Liu”,
Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey
“Hung Liu: Za Zhong - Bastard Paintings”, Nancy Hoffman Gallery,
New York
2005
“Hung Liu: Polly - Portrait of a Pioneer”, Rena Bransten Gallery,
San Francisco
“Hung Liu: Female Radical Nu Zi Pang”, Nancy Hoffman Gallery,
New York
“Hung Liu: An Exhibition of New Work at Trillium Press”, Trillium Press,
Brisbane, California
“Hung Liu”, Nathan Laramendy Gallery, Ojai, California
“Hung Liu: A Decade of Paintings”, Gurlford College Art Gallery
Greensboro, North Carolina
“The Vanishing: Re-presenting the Chinese in the American West”,
Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon
Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.
“Relic: New Paintings”, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
2004
“Hung Liu: Lament”, Art Scene China, Shanghai
“Hung Liu”, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
2003
“New Prints by Hung Liu”, Paulson Press, Berkeley, California
“Geography of Memory: Selected Works by Hung Liu”,
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California
“Hung Liu: Revolutionary Daughter”, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“Hung Liu: New Paintings”, Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
“Hung Liu: Toward Peng-Lai (Paradise)”, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Hung Liu: W ~ r kosn Paper”, B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento. California
“Complex Puzzles, New Work: Hung Liu”, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery,
Miami, Florida
2002
“Painterly Proofs: Prints by Hung Liu”, de Saisset Museum,
Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California
“Hung Liu”, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida
“Strange Fruit: New Paintings by Hung Liu”, Arizona State University
Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
“Hung Liu: Paintings”, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Lararnie, Wyoming
2001
“Hui Yin (Echoes)”, Mabel Smith Douglass Library, Rutgers University,
New Brunswick, New Jersey
“Studio Sessions: New Paintings by Hung Liu”, Craft and Cultural Arts
Department, City of Oakland and State of California Gallery,
Oakland, California
“Beyond the Frame: Hung Liu”, Knoxville Museum of Art,
Knoxville, Tennessee
“A Retrospective of Contemporary Paintings by Hung Liu”,
Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas
2000
“New Paintings”, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
“Where Is Mao? 2000”, The Art Center, Center of Academic Resources,
Chulalongkom University, Bangkok, Thailand
“Hung Liu”, LewAllen Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
‘Hung Liu”, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1999
“Hung Liu: Paintings,” Miami University Hiestand Galleries, Oxford, Ohio
“Hung Liu, New Work”, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York
“Hung Liu”, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut
1998
“Chinese Types”, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
“Hung Liu: WashingTown Blues”, Halsey Gallery at the
College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
“Hung Liu: Recent Work”, Schneider Museum of Art,
Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon
“Hung Liu: A Ten-Year Survey, 1988-98”,
The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio
The john and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art,
Williamsburg, Virginia
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, Missouri
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Bowdin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine
The Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
1997
“Hung Liu’s New Work”, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York
“Hung Liu”, Golden Gate University, San Francisco, California
“Hung Liu: Unfolding Memory - Embodying History”,
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale, New York
1996
“Hung Liu -You Can’t Go Home Again”, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery,
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
“Hung Liu’s New Work”, Horwitch LewAllen Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
“Hung Liu”, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California
“Feudal Remnants”, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
“Parameters: Hung Liu”, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
1995
“Tradewind”, Ohlone College Art Gallery, Fremont, California
“The Last Dynasty”, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York
“Can-ton, the Baltimore Series”,
Baltimore Contemporary Museum,
Baltimore, Maryland
1994
“Hung Liu- Paintings and Installation”, University of California at Irvine,
Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine, California
“Hung Liu: Identity Fragments”, the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery,
Porter College, University of California at Santa Cruz, California
“Jiu Jin Shan (Old Gold Mountain), an installation at the M. H.
de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California
“Tales of Chinese Women”, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin,
“Year of the Dog”, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York
“Hung Liu’s Work”, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
1993
“New Work”, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
“Two Small Bodies”, Churchill County Library, Churchill Arts Council, Fallon, Nevada
1992
“Sittings”, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York
1991
“Bad Women”, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
1990
“Trauma, 1989”, Mixed Media installation, Diverse Works, Houston, Texas
1989
“Goddesses of Love and Liberty”, Nahan Contemporary Gallery, New York
“Chinese Pieta”, mixed-media installation, The Women’s Building, Los Angeles, California
“Trauma”, mixed-media installation, Sushi Gallery, San Diego, California
“Where is Mao!”, an installation of an ironic memorial to Mao Tse,Tung;
version 11, Brown-Lupton Gallery, Texas Christian University,
Fort Worth, Texas
1988
“Where is Mao!’”, an installation of an ironic memorial to Mao Tse Tung,
Southwestern College Art Gallery, California
“Resident Alien”, an off-site installation of the Capp Street Project,
Monadnock Building, San Francisco, California
“Figures”, Brazos Gallery, Richland College, Dallas, Texas
1987
“Combinations”, Bath House Cultural Centre, Dallas, Texas
“Once There Were Ten Suns...”, a dual site mixed- media installation,
D-Art Visual Art Center & South Dallas Cultural Center, Dallas
1986
“Canto”, installation, MFA exhibition” Annex Gallery,
University of California, San Diego
1985
“Grotto Variations”, mural installation, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery,
University of Nevada, Reno

Selected Group Exhibitions
2006
“Visage”, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
“Visual Politics: The Art of Engagement”, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
“Intersections: Locating Acts of Courage”, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, California
“Collaboration as a Medium: 25 Years of Pyramid Atlantic”, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland
“Liu, Kunc, Sotic, Stout, Denker, Blood: 4 Printrnakers, 2 Curators”,
The Washington Printrnakers Gallery 2006 Invitational, Washington, DC
“Majestic Tapestries of Magnolia Editions”, Bedford Gallery,
Walnut Creek, California
“Visual Politics: the Art of Engagement”, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
2005
“A Motion Picture”, The DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, California
“A Supernatural Soiree”, di Rosa Preserve Gatehouse Gallery, Napa, California
“Tapestries by Contemporary Artists”, The Judson Gallery of Contemporary
and Traditional Aft, Los Angeles, California
“Selected Recent Acquisitions and Highlights”, CU Art Museum, Boulder, Colorado
“Next New”, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
“Views from Here: Russian and American Screen prints”, Lee Gallery,
Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
“Artists Interrogate Race and Identity”, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee,
Wisconsin
“Eve”, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York
“Five Presses: Selected Works”, Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities,
Arvada, Colorado
“Steven Scott Collects”, Steven Scott Gallery, Owings Mills, Maryland
“A Tale to Tell”, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
“Shark & His Ink”, Exhibition, Boulder, Colorado
“Surfaced”, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
“Print, Process, Collaboration”, Savannah College of Art and Design,
Savannah, Georgia
“Collaboration as a Medium: Pyramid Atlantic Art Center 25th Anniversary
Exhibition”, The Pejco Edison Gallery, Washington, DC
“Pressing Issues, Pressing Images”, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
“Visual Alchemy Phase 2”, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, California
“See the Fine Print: Selected Work from Shark’s Ink”, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska
“The Anniversary Show”, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
“Trillium Fund Show”, Fort Mason, San Francisco, California
2004
“Four Galleries: Four Artists, New Prints by Hung Liu with Photographs by Todd Hido, Ghost Ships by John Taylor, and Paintings by David Crimson”, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“Art of the Americas: Latin America and the United States, 1800 to Now!”,
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
“Tamarind: 40 Years’, Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, California
2003
“Global Elegies: Art and Ofrendas for the Dead”,
Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
2003 “Across The Divide”, Gatov and Werby Art Galleries,
California State University Long Beach, California
“Road Trip”, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, California
“At Work: The Art of California Labor”, Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco State University, California
“The Other Side”, B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, California
“Inaugural Anniversary Exhibition”, Oakland Art Gallery,
Oakland, California
“Collection Highlights”, San Jose Museum of Art,
San Jose, California
“Family Ties: A Contemporary Perspective”, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
“Scenery”; Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
“Seizing the Myths: Arts of Rebellion”, Resource Center for Activism and Art, Gaea Foundation, Washington, DC
“Trillium Press! Prints from ‘00, ‘01, ‘02, ‘03”, Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, California
“Vertigo: Exhibition and Silent Auction”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
“Manifest. Destiny: Contemporary API Activist Artists”, Association of Asian American Studies Conference, Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco, California
“From Stone & Plate: Contemporary Prints from Tamarind Institute”,
Phoebe Conley Art Gallery, Cal State Fresno, California
2002
“Box AdArt Box”, Benefit Auction, Pro Arts Callery, Oakland,
California
“Contemporary Printmakers”, I. lohnson Gallery, lacksonville Beach, Florida
“Printworks 2002”, Key Tower Gallery, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, Washington
“Art/ Women/ California: Parallels and Intersections, 1950 - 2000, San Jose Museum of Art, San lose
2001
 “Winter Work”, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
“Digital Printmaking Now”, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn
“Collecting Our Thoughts: The Community Responds to Art in the Permanent Collection”, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
“Expanded Visions: Four Women Artists Print the American West”,
Women of the West Museum, Denver, Colorado
“Critical Masses”, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
“Text & Subtext - Contemporary Art and Asian Women”,
Earl Lu Gallery, La Salle-Sia College of the Arts, Singapore
Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Artspace, Sydney, Australia
Ostasiatiska Museet (Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities), Stockholm, Sweden
Stenersenmuseet (Stenersen Museum), Oslo, Norway
Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark
Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
X-Ray Art Centre, Beijing, China
“New Prints 2001 - Summer”, International Print Center, New York
2000
“New Work: Painting Today, Recent Acquisitions”,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
“Millennium Messages - Time Capsules”, Organized by the Heckscher
Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution Traveling
Exhibition Service. Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, Long Island, New pork
“There but for the grace of ... Temporary Shelters”, Here Here Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
1999
“California Blend: Tradition and Change”, Millard Sheets Gallery,
Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, California
“23rd International Biennial of Graphic Arts”, International Centre
of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
“Outward Bound - American Art at the Brink of the Twenty-First Century”, premiere at Meridian’s White-Meyer Galleries, Washington, D.C
1998
“Prints from Paulson Press”, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
“Bicultural Identities: Three migrants from Bosnia, China and Vietnam”,
Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, Florida
“Unthinkable Tenderness: The Art of Human Rights”, Art Department
Gallery, College of Creative Arts, San Francisco State University
“American Stories: Amidst Displacement and Transformation”, Japan,
1997 -98. Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
Chiba City Museum, Chiba, Japan
Fukui Fine AN Museum, Fukui, Japan
Kurashiki Art City Museum, Japan
1997
“American Kaleidoscope: Art At The Close Of This Century”, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian institution, Washington D.C
1997
“Regionalism/ Identity, Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada,
Reno, Nevada
“On the Rim”, TransAmerica Building, San Francisco, California
“Traditional Innovations: Four Northern California Artists”, Crocker Art
Museum, Sacramento, California
1996
“Gender - Beyond Memory”, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo
1995
“Dis-Oriented; Shifting Identities of Asian Women in America*, curated by Margo Machida, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery and the
Henry Street Settlement, New York
“Reinventing The Emblem: Contemporary Artists Recreate a Renaissance Idea”, The Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
“Making Faces - American Portraits”, the Hudson River
Museum of Westchester, New York
“10x10: Ten Contemporary Women Artists”, Berkeley Art Center,
Berkeley, California
1994
“Women’s Spirit: Pacita Abad, Hung Liu, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Howardena
Pindell, and Joyce Scott”, Bomani Gallery,
San Francisco, California
“Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art”, Tacoma Art Museum,
Tacoma, Washington
“Asia America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art”,
the Asia Society Galleries, New York
“New Voices 1994”, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College,
Oberlin, Ohio
“The 43rd Corcoran Biennial of Contemporary American Painting”,
The Corcoran Museum Of Art, Washington D.C
1993
“Backtalk”, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California
“Narratives of Loss - the Displaced Body”, University of Wisconsin Art
Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
“In Transit”, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
“Counterweight: Alienation, Assimilation, Resistance”, Contemporary Art
Forum, Santa Barbara, California
1992
“Society For The Encouragement Of Contemporary Art (SECA) Award”,
1992: with John Beech and Maria Porges, San Francisco Museum of
Modern Art, San Francisco, California
“Art & The Law”, a traveling show presented by West Art & The Law, 1992-93.
“Virgin Territories”, Long Beach Museum Of Art, Long Beach, California
“Voices”, Shea & Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, California
“Why Painting-Part 1 “, curated by Bill Berkson, Susan Cummjns Gallery, Mill Valley, California
“Decoding Gender”, curated by Robert Atkins, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, Maryland
“Selected Bay Area Drawings”, Drawing Center, New York
“Viewpoints: Eight Installations”, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California
1990
“Implosion”, a three person exhibition with Lawrence Andrews and Lewis de Soto, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California
“Precarious Links: Emily Jennings, Hung Liu, and Celia Munoz”,
curated by Jim Edwards, San Antonio Museum of Art, Texas
1988
“Artists for Amnesty”, Dallas Public Library, Dallas, Texas
“Art in the Metroplex”, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas
“UTA Faculty: New Work”, UTA Center for Research in Contemporary Art,
University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
1980
“National Fine Arts Colleges Exhibition”, a traveling group show in
China
1978
“Portraiture Exhibition’, Winter Palace Gallery, Beijing, China.