Hung Liu

Hung Liu's retrospective at the Smithsonian Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. opened in August of last year and runs through the end of this month. The exhibition's curator Dorothy Moss created a wonderful tour and history of the artist's life. Click READ MORE to see the video.

A new group exhibition presented by UC Santa Cruz Institute of the Arts and Sciences (IAS) and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH), features contemporary artworks by some of today’s leading artists, from Kehinde Wiley to Hung Liu, drawn from one of the most important post-war and contemporary art collections in the country. 

A sprawling exhibition of work by the late Chinese American artist Hung Liu at the Schnitzer Museum

On, February 5, 2022, the University of Oregon’s Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon will open the “Remember This: Hung Liu at Trillium” in the museum’s Barker and Soreng galleries. In this exhibition, renowned contemporary Chinese-American artist Hung Liu explored subjects ranging from portraits to landscapes to still lifes and reflects upon history, memory, tradition, migration, and social justice.

As another year draws to a close, we’re taking a moment to look back on those we lost in the art world in 2021.

The list below is arranged according to the date the obituary was published. Links in italics take you to other news outlets; the others take you to Artnet News coverage.

The Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) has added three works by contemporary artist Hung Liu (American, Chinese born, 1948-2021) to its permanent collection.

Diablo spotlights the most exciting, not-to-be-missed cultural events of the new season. Plus: Meet four creative talents who will be center stage in the coming months.

This fall the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State opens Global Asias: Contemporary Asian and Asian American Art from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.

Hung Liu’s life story unfolded like the myths she loved as a child, tales of women propelled by circumstance out of their homes and into the fray of history.