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HUNG LIU - BIOGRAPHY

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1948

Born in Changchun, China

1975 BFA in Education, Beijing Teachers College, Beijing, China
1981 Graduate Student of Mural Painting, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China
1986 Graduate Student in Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2006

Hung Liu - Solo Exhibition, Art Scene China, Shanghai

2002

Solo Exhibition, Strange Fruit: New Paintings by Hung Liu, Arizona State University Museum, Arizona and Boise Art Museum, Idaho. Traveling

2001

Solo Exhibition, A Retrospective of Contemporary Paintings by Hung Liu, Ellen Noel Art Museum of the Permian Basin, Texas
Solo Exhibition, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
Group Exhibition, Collecting Our Thoughts: The Community Responds to Art in the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Francisco

2000

Solo Exhibition, New Paintings, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
Where is Mao? 2000, The Art Center, Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkom University, Bangkok, Thailand
Group Exhibition, Text and Subtext-Contemporary Art and Asian Women, Earl Lu Gallery, La Salle-Sia College of the Arts, Singapore. Traveling

2000-1999

Group Exhibition, New Work: Painting Today, Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

1999

Solo Exhibition, Hung Liu, New Work, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York
Group Exhibition, Into the 21st Century, Selections from the Permanent Collections, San Jose Museum of Art, California, Catalogue
Group Exhibition, The View From Here, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Group Exhibition, Millennium Message-Time Capsules, Heckscher Museum of Art and Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, Long Island New York
Group Exhibition, Outward Bound-American Art at the Brink of the Twenty- First Century, Meridian’s White-Meyer Galleries, Washington, D.C. Traveling

1998

Solo Exhibition, Hung Liu: A Survey, 1988-1998, The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster Ohio, Traveling

1997-1998

Group Exhibition, American Stories: Amidst Displacement & Transformation, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo. Traveling.

1997

Solo Exhibition, Hung Liu: Unfolding Memory Picturing History, BARD, Centre for Curatorial Studies, Annandale on Hudson, New York
Group Exhibition, Traditions/Innovations: Four Northern California Arts, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California

1996

Group Exhibition, American Kaleidoscope: Themes and Perspectives in Recent Art, National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Group Exhibition, Gender Beyond Memory: The Works of Contemporary Women Artists, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan

1996-1995

Solo Exhibition, Parameters: Hung Liu, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

1995

Solo Exhibition, The Last Dynasty, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, New York

1994

Group Exhibition, Asia/America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art, Asia Society Galleries, New York. Traveling.

1993

Group Exhibition, In Transit, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York
Group Exhibition, Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Francisco, California. Award received
Solo Exhibition, New Work, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California

1992

Solo Exhibition, Sittings, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, NewYork, New York


SELECTED PERMANENT COLLECTION


Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, California
National Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York


SELECTED AWARDS


1993

Eureka Fellowship, The Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, California

1991

National Endowment for the Arts, Painting Fellowship

1989

National Endowment for the Arts, Painting Fellowship