Hung Liu

In 1972, a dozen members of the University Women’s Association founded a new group with a specific mission of benefiting the University of Oklahoma’s Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art.

MICHIGAN CITY — The exhibit “We Are Us: The Human Condition” continues through Feb. 24 at the Lubeznik Center for the Arts, 101 W. 2nd St.

Lubeznik Center for the Arts (LCA) has announced the upcoming fall exhibition, We Are Us: The Human Condition, which will be on display from Oct. 29, 2022, through Feb. 24, 2023. 

In early August, Beijing-based artist Li Songsong’s abstract oil painting Six Men (2008), which resembles a photo showing Japanese Kamikaze pilots during the Second World War, was taken down from display at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing after being reported by an unnamed viewer.

Liu blends the idealistic, Socialist Realism style of the Mao era with the tragic realities of the period in a style dubbed “weeping realism.”

Oakland Museum of California (OMCA) has announced its lineup for 2022-2023. 

"Remember This: Hung Liu at Trillium" at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the University of Oregon showcases a suite of hybrid prints and paintings. The exhibition is equally an opportunity to reflect on and celebrate the artist's remarkable career.

In “Remember This: Hung Liu at Trillium” in the JSMA's Barker and Soreng galleries, 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.

OAKLAND, California - Oakland has a new mural honoring artists.

On view now at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art.

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.

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery will present “Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands,” the first retrospective of the artist’s portraiture and the first major presentation of her work on the East Coast.

National Portrait Gallery curator Dorothy Moss and artist Hung Liu got together more than a dozen times over the past few years, often at Liu's studio in Oakland, Cal., to try to figure out what to put in a major retrospective of the artist's work, opening at the museum this Friday.

Hung Liu, an artist whose childhood in Maoist China inspired intimate explorations of identity, has died at the age of 73. 

Chinese-born American artist Hung Liu, an Oakland-based painter internationally recognized for her work exploring notions of identity, immigration and the Maoist culture she grew up in, has died just as her latest exhibit went on display at San Francisco’s de Young Museum.

With the familiar landmark as its subtitle, “Hung Liu: Golden Gate” opens Saturday, July 17, at the de Young Museum, featuring eight works by contemporary Chinese-born American artist Hung Liu. The show asks us to think about migration, history, honor and memory. What does it mean to cross a bridge? Whose history do we remember? For Liu, the answer is in her art: “The surface will be a memorial site.”

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art transformed its signature one-night Art Bash into four days of (mostly) free virtual events that will give participants a view into the world of arts innovators, while transporting them back inside the museum starting Monday, April 12.

Women have paid the price for being renegades across millennia.

Some of the most acclaimed women artists of this or any time battled sexual, social, racial and even physical oppression in order to find their creative voice.

A Recent Exhibition in China