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About Hung Liu
Hung Liu (b. Changchun, China, 1948 – d. Oakland, California, 2021) was a groundbreaking contemporary artist known for her powerful paintings based primarily on historical Chinese photographs, and her installations addressing the racial and cultural complexities she witnessed upon immigrating to the United States at the age of 36.
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Tending and Dreaming: Stories from the Collection
San José Museum of Art, San José, CA
March 7, 2025 – Ongoing
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Hung Liu: Happy and Gay
Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania
August 15 – October 26, 2025
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Chronology
1980 – 1989
Resident Alien
On October 26, 1984, Liu boards a China Air 747 in Beijing and departs for San Francisco.
Got to Time Period
2010 – 2019
Summoning Ghosts
On March 16, 2013, Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu opens at the Oakland Museum of California.
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Selected Works
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Selected publications
Exhibition Catalog
Exhibition Catalog
Exhibition Catalog
Exhibition Catalog
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Videos
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Hung Liu, 2005
See the process behind Hung Liu's series of figurative works that uses images from vintage photographs. KQED Spark.
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Mills College Lecture on occasion of the exhibition "Look Up to the Sky: Hung Liu's Legacy of Mentoring," 2024
Dorothy Moss, Director of the Hung Liu Estate, Rosana Castrillo Diaz, Nicole Phungrasamee Fein, and Mel Prest remembered their teacher and mentor, Hung Liu, sharing stories about her warmth, strength, sense of humor, and the deeply personal impact she had on their lives.
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