Hung Liu was born in Changchun, China in 1948 and spent most of her life in Beijing living under the rule of the People's Republic of China. When she was six months old, her father became a political prisoner and she never saw him again until 1994. During the Cultural Revolution of 1966 to 1976 she was subject to re-education by the working class and was sent to work in the fields with peasants. She received her B.F.A. in Education from the Beijing Teachers College in 1975 and M.F.A. equivalent in Mural Painting from the Central Academy of Art in Beijing in 1981. She came to the U.S. in 1984 and earned her M.F.A. in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego in 1986. Liu has received two National Endowment for the Arts awards, a Russell Foundation Grant, Capp Street Project Stipend, Public Art Commission for the Moscone Convention Center, and a 1992 Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Art Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She has had numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout the U.S. and in Asia. She currently teaches in the Art Department at Mills College.
Resident Alien
Tale of Two Women
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Loom
Da Fan Che
Shoah