Born in 1948 in Beijing, China. Lives and works in Oakland, CA, USA.

 

EDUCATION

1986   

Master of Fine Arts Degree in Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego.  

1981  
Graduate Degree (MFA Equivalent), Mural Painting, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China.

1975  
Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Art and Art Education, Beijing Teachers College, Beijing, China.

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2001-present
Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, California.

1995-2001 
Associate Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, California.           

1990-1995      
Assistant Professor of Art, Mills College, Oakland, California.           

1989-90 
Assistant Professor of Art, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.

1987    
Adjunct Professor (Chinese Art History), Department of Art, University of Texas at Arlington.

1981-84  
Instructor of Art, Central Academy of Fine Art, Beijing, China.

 

SELECTED AWARDS

SGC International Lifetime Achievement Award for Printmaking, Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Arts, Washington, University, St Louis, MO, 2011.
The Joan Mitchell Foundation, Inc., Painters and Sculptors Grant, 1998.
Fleishhacker Foundation Eureka Fellowship, San Francisco, January, 1993.
National Endowment for the Arts, Painting Fellowship, 1991.
National Endowment for the Arts, Painting Fellowship, 1989.

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016     

Summer Show – Painting 2016, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong

2015    

Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA

Migratory Seeds: New Work by Hung Liu, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Dandelion, Walter Maciel Gallery, Culver City, Los Angeles, CA

Tom Boy, Heather James Gallery, Palm Desert, CA

2014    

Hung Liu: Prints and Tapestries, La Salle University Art Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Tilling the Soil, Byron Cohen/ Sherry Leedy Galleries, Kansas City, MO

Hung Liu, Gail Savern Gallery, Ketchum, ID

Hung Liu: Once Upon A Time, Payne Gallery, Moravian College, Bethlehem, PA

The Rat Years, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia

Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu, Retrospective, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

2013    
Hung Liu: Mid Autumn Moon, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong

Qian Shan: Grandfather’s Mountain, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, NY

Hung Liu: Offerings, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA

Hung Liu: Portrait of a Chinese Self, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Questions from the Sky: New Work from Hung Liu, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

Full Circle, Paulson Bott Press, Richmond, CA

Summoning Ghosts: The Art of Hung Liu, Retrospective, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA

2012       
CYCLE 輪回: New Works by Hung Liu, Gatehouse Gallery, Napa, CA
Hung Liu: TBA, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MI

2011
TBA, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Hung Liu: New Work, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
First Spring Thunder, Alexander Ochs Gallery, Beijing, China
Hung Liu, Elizabeth de Brabant Gallery, Shanghai, China
ZZs @ Za Za!, Turner Carroll Gallery @ Hotel Za Za, Dallas, TX
Hung Liu: Za Zhong Paintings, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Za Zhong, Diehl Gallery, Jackson, WY

2010           
Richter Scale, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL
Za Zhong, 10 Chancery Lane, Hong Kong, China
Earthquake Sketchbook, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, MO
The Layers, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, ID
Life and Death, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
China Story, Andrew Bae Gallery, Chicago, Illinois,
Sundown of the Last Dynasty: Tapestries and New Prints by Hung Liu, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Apsaras / 飞天, Fort Collins Museum of Contemporary Art, Fort Collins, CO.

2009
Prodigal Daughters, 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, Hong Kong, China
Apsaras / 飞天, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York
Hung Liu: Remote Portraits, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Hung Liu: Prints & Paintings, Gail Severn Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
Hung Liu: Migration/Immigration, Curated by Michael Schwager, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, California

Trade Winds: New Work, Galeria Omar Alonso, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco, Mexico

2008           
Cycles, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
Rat Years, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Hung Liu: New Work, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Prodigal Daughter, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
Tai Cang (Great Granary), Xin Beijing Art Gallery (XBAG), Beijing, China
Hung Liu: Now and Then, Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma

2007-08   
Hung Liu: Memorial Grounds 1988 – 2006
SCAD – Savannah, Pei Ling Chang Gallery, Savannah, Georgia
SCAD – Atlanta, ACA Gallery of SCAD, Atlanta, Georgia

2007
Daughters of China, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
Hung Liu: ZZ (Bastard Paintings), Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York
Hung Liu: Old Road, West Wind, iPreciation Gallery, Singapore

2006           
Matriarchs, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
Hung Liu: New Work, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Matriarchy: Hung Liu’s New Work, Art Scene China Warehouse, Shanghai, China
The Vanishing: Re-presenting the Chinese in the American West, University of Wyoming Art Museum, Laramie, Wyoming
Full Circle: Revolutions in the Paintings of Hung Liu, Paul Robeson Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey

2005           
Hung Liu: Polly - Portrait of a Pioneer, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
Hung Liu: A Decade of Paintings, Guilford College Art Gallery Greensboro, North Carolina
The Vanishing: Re-presenting the Chinese in the American West,
Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, UT, January 29 – March 20, 2005.
Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Orgeon University, Ashland, Oregon,
Prichard Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho.

2004           
Relic: New Paintings, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida
Hung Liu: Lament, Art Scene China, Shanghai, China

2003           
Hung Liu: Toward Peng-Lai (Paradise), Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Complex Puzzles, New Work: Hung Liu, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida

2002      
Painterly Proofs: Prints by Hung Liu, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, California

2002-03           
Strange Fruit: New Paintings by Hung Liu,
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona;
Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho;
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California;
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California.

2000
Where Is Mao? 2000, The Art Center, Center of Academic Resources, Chulalongkom University, Bangkok, Thailand
Hung Liu, LewAllen Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1999
Hung Liu, New Work, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, New York

1998
Chinese Types, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
Hung Liu: WashingTown Blues, Halsey Gallery at the College of Charleston, Charleston, South Carolina
Hung Liu: Recent Works, Schneider Museum of Art, Southern Oregon University, Ashland, Oregon

1998-99           
Hung Liu: A Ten-Year Survey, 1988-98,
The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, Ohio;
The John and Margaret Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, Virginia;
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, Missouri;
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California;
Bowdin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine;
The Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

1996      
Hung Liu - You Can’t Go Home Again, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada.
Hung Liu, Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, California.
Feudal Remnants, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
Parameters: Hung Liu, The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia

1995           
The Last Dynasty, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, New York
Can-ton, the Baltimore Series, Baltimore Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

1994      
Jiu Jin Shan(Old Gold Mountain), an installation at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, California
Year of the Dog, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New Yor.

1992           
Sittings, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York.

1991           
Bad Women, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California

1990           
Trauma, 1989, mixed media installation, Diverseworks, Houston, Texas

1989           
Chinese Pieta, mixed-media installation, The Women's Building, Los Angeles, California.
Trauma, mixed-media installation, Sushi Gallery, San Diego, California.

1988      
Where is Mao?, an installation of an ironic memorial to Mao Tse Tung, Southwestern College Art Gallery, Chula Vista, California
Resident Alien, an off-site installation of the Capp Street Project, Monadnock Building, San Francisco, California

1987     
Once There Were Ten Suns..., a dual-site mixed-media installation, D-Art Visual Art Center & South Dallas Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas

1985           
Grotto Variations, mural installation, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2016    

Marks Made: Prints by American Women Artists from the 1960s to the Present, Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg, FL

2015     

First Look: Collecting Contemporary At The Asian, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA

(Re)discovering S(h)elves: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Christian Petersen Art Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, IA

Tahoe: A Visual History, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV

The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY

The Other Side: Mexican and Chinese Immigration to America, Asia Society, Texas Center, Houston, TX

Under Pressure: Contemporary Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, OR

2014     

I’ll Show You Mine: Contemporary Artists Explore Family Portraiture, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA

The Intuitionists, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

Shark’s Ink: Collaborations, Pattern Shop Studio, Denver, CO

Radical Repetition: Albers to Warhol, From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and his Family Foundation, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA

The Female Gaze: Selfhood and Community from the Linda Lee Alter Collection of Art by Women, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver School of Art and Art History

Building Forward/Looking Back, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA

The Other Side: Chinese and Mexican Immigration to America, USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA

Under Pressure: Contemporary Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Utah Museum of Art, Salt Lake City, UT; Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT; Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA

2013     

Experiments in the Fault Zone, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, California

Then is Now, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, California

Collaborative Printmaking, Hong Kong Graphic Art Fiesta 2013, hosted by the Hong Kong Open Printshop

Hung Liu: Layers, Diehl Gallery, Jackson, WY

Artist in Residence Collection, Fullerton College Art Gallery, Fullerton, California

Squeak Carnwath, Hung Liu, Katherine Sherwood, B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, California

I, You, We, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

Under Pressure: Contemporary Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS

2012
Gold, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria, March 2012.

2011
Mega, Mega, Mega: Southern Exposure’s Annual Auction, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
Across the Invisible Line: The Art of Immigration University Library Gallery, Sonoma State University, CA
Kala-fornia: State of the Art Gala Auction, Kala Art Institute and Gallery, Berkeley, CA
Art from the Heart, 27th Annual Art Auction and Fundraiser, University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University

2010          
Painting with Paint: selections from the Nancy Hoffman Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC
Culture Revolution: Contemporary Chinese Paintings from the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio
The Legend of Bud Shark & His Indelible Ink, Loveland Museum Gallery, Loveland, Colorado
All Over the Map, project organized by Annika Marie and Moira Roth, Poor Farm, Manawa, WI
West Coast Contemporary, A Survey Exhibition, Turner Carroll Gallery
Inspiration Unlimited, Walter Maciel Gallery, Showroom B261, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood
Identity Based Vertigo, Walter Maciel Gallery, Showroom B261, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood
What Makes a Picture a Portrait?, De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, CA
Better Half, Better Twelfth. Sheldon Museum of Art, Nebraska
Shark’s Ink, Wright State University, Robert and Elaine Stein Galleries, Dayton, OH
Story Painters, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
Figure, B. Sakata Garo, Sacramento, CA
Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art, EL CUBO, Tijuana, Mexico
FYI—The Reflected Gaze, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
REAL(ist), Selby Gallery, Ringling College of Art and Design, Sarasota, Florida

2009          
Off the Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art, UC San Diego University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA
Out of Bounds: Art from the Collection of Driek and Michael Zirinsky, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA
A Measure of Humanity: The Harcos-Huneke Collection, Grand Galleries, Grand Theatre Center for the Arts, Tracy, California
Art: East Meets West, Michael Berger, Pittsburgh, PA
Summer Group Show, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York
Contemporary Tapestries, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Transforming Traditions: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, Victoria H. Myhren Gallery, University of Denver, Colorado
The Legend of Bud Shark and His Indelible Ink, Museum of Contemporary Art/Denver, Denver, Colorado
Chance: Cuestiones de Anzar, Curated by Pilar Perez, Puerto Vallarta, Jalistco, Mexico

2008           
Art For Wine, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, California
Art of Democracy: War and Empire, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco, California
Shark’s Ink – revisited – , Foster Gallery, Haas Fine Arts Center, Eau Claire, Wisconsin
Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art from the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Art from Asia, Turner Carroll Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Ying: Inspired by the Art and History of China, The Museum of Art and History, Santa Cruz, California
International Print Exhibition, The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art; Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Annex; The Tokushima Modern Art Museum
Crouching Paper, Hidden Dragon: Works on Paper, F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
Far From Home, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
Being China, Saint Vincent Gallery, Latrobe, Pennsylvania

2007           
Continuum: Innovative Prints from 1992 – 2007, Pyramid Atlantic Art Center, Silver Spring, Maryland
A Tribute to Peter Selz, B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, California
Women’s Work: Contemporary Women Printmakers, Hallie Ford Museum of Art at
Willamette University, Salem, Oregon
Contemporary Combustion: Chinese Artists in America, New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, Connecticut
Home Sweet Home, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
In Your Face, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery
High Fiber, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
Ten Tapestries from Magnolia Editions, Richard L. Nelson Gallery, Davis, California
Big Picture: Provisions for the Arts of Social Change, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, New York
Contemporary Prints from Shark’s Ink, Art Space, Jackson, Wyoming
New Year, New Gifts, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California

2006           
Intersections: Shifting Identity in Contemporary Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Who’s Afraid of San Francisco?, Frey Norris Gallery, San Francisco, California
Drawn, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, California
Road Works Block Party, Center for the Book, San Francisco, California
Beyond the Likeness: Self-Portraits by California Artists, Triton Museum of Art
Tapestries, Klaudia Marr Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Tapestries, Sullivan Goss Gallery, Santa Barbara, California
Visage, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York
Visual Politics: The Art of Engagement, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC
Intersections: Locating Acts of Courage, Joyce Gordon Gallery, Oakland, California
Collaboration as a Medium: 25 Years of Pyramid Atlantic, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, Maryland
Liu, Kunc, Sotic, Stout, Denker, Blood: 4 Printmakers, 2 Curators, The Washington Printmakers Gallery 2006 Invitational, Washington, DC

2005-06   
Tapestries by Contemporary Artists, The Judson Gallery of Contemporary and Traditional Art, Los Angeles, California

2005           
Majestic Tapestries of Magnolia Editions, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, California,
Visual Politics: the Art of Engagement, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Monterey Collects, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California
A Motion Picture, The DeYoung Museum, San Francisco, California
A Supernatural Soiree, di Rosa Preserve Gatehouse Gallery, Napa, California
Selected Recent Acquisitions and Highlights, CU Art Museum, Boulder, Colorado
Next New,  San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, California
Views from Here: Russian and American Screenprints, Lee Gallery, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
Artists Interrogate Race and Identity, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Eve, Nancy Hoffman Gallery, New York, New York
Monterey Collects, Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, California
Five Presses: Selected Works, Arvada Center for the Arts & Humanities, Arvada, Colorado
Steven Scott Collects, Steven Scott Gallery, Owings Mills, Maryland
A Tale to Tell, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Shark & His Ink, Exhibitrek, Boulder, Colorado
Surfaced, Byron C. Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Print, Process, Collaboration, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia
Collaboration as a Medium: Pyramid Atlantic Art Center 25th Anniversary Exhibition, The Pepco Edison Gallery, Washington, DC
Pressing Issues, Pressing Images, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Visual Alchemy Phase 2, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, California
See the Fine Print: Selected Work from Shark’s Ink,  Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, Nebraska
The Anniversary Show, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California

2004           
Four Galleries: Four Artists, New Prints by Hung Liu with Photographs by Todd Hido, Ghost Ships by John Taylor, and Paintings by David Crimson, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Art of the Americas: Latin America and the United States, 1800 to Now!, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Tamarind: 40 Years, Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, California
Trillium Fund Show, Fort Mason, San Francisco, California

2003           
Global Elegies: Art and Ofrendas for the Dead, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Across The Divide, Gatov and Werby Art Galleries, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, California
Road Trip, Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai, California
At Work: The Art of California Labor, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, California
The Other Side, B. Sakata Garo Gallery, Sacramento, California
Inaugural Anniversary Exhibition, Oakland Art Gallery, Oakland, California
Collection Highlights, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Family Ties: A Contemporary Perspective, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
Scenery, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
Seizing the Myths:  Arts of Rebellion, Resource Center for Activism and Arts, Gaea Foundation, Washington, DC
Trillium Press: Prints from ’00, ’01, ’02, ’03, Michael Martin Galleries, San Francisco, California
Vertigo: Exhibition and Silent Auction, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Manifest. Destiny: Contemporary API Activist Artists, Association of Asian American Studies Conference, Cathedral Hill Hotel, San Francisco, California
From Stone & Plate: Contemporary Prints from Tamarind Institute, Phoebe Conley Art Gallery, Cal State Fresno, California

2002
Box Art/Art Box, Benefit Auction, Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, California
Contemporary Printmakers, J. Johnson Gallery, Jacksonville Beach, Florida
Printworks 2002, Key Tower Gallery, Seattle Arts Commission, Seattle, Washington
Art/ Women/ California: Parallels and Intersections, 1950 – 2000, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose

2001
First Impressions: The Paulson Press, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California
Winter Work, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara, California
About Face: Considering Portraits, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
Digital Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York
Collecting Our Thoughts: The Community Responds to Art in the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
Expanded Visions: Four Women Artists Print the American West, Women of the West Museum, Denver, Colorado
New Prints 2001 – Summer, International Print Center, New York

2000-03
Text & Subtext – Contemporary Art and Asian Women,
         Earl Lu Gallery, La Salle-Sia College of the Arts, Singapore
         Ivan Dougherty Gallery, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia;
         Artspace, Sydney, Australia;
         Ostasiatiska Museet (Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities), Stockholm, Sweden;
         Stenersenmuseet (Stenersen Museum), Oslo, Norway
         Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Centre, Copenhagen, Denmar
         Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
         X-Ray Art Centre, Beijing, China

2000
Critical Masses, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
The Big Picture Benefit Auction, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
Heart of the Future Part 2, Encina Art Gallery, Sacramento, California
For Pete’s Sake, The University of Arizona Art Museum, Tucson, Arizona
30+ East Bay Painters & Graphic Artists, The Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California
Six Degrees of Inspiration, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia Peninsula Fine Arts Center
New Work: Painting Today, Recent Acquisitions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

1999
Millennium Messages - Time Capsules, Organized by the Heckscher Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service. Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, Long Island, New York
There but for the grace of…Temporary Shelters, Here Here Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
California Blend: Tradition and Change, Millard Sheets Gallery, Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, California
23rd International Biennial of Graphic Arts, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Into The 21st Century: Selections From The Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, California
Outward Bound - American Art at the Brink of the Twenty-First Century, premiere at Meridian’s White-Meyer Galleries, Washington, D.C.; will travel to Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam; Beijing and Shanghai, China; Singapore; and Jakarta, Indonesia.
West Looks East, LewAllen Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico

1998
Prints from Paulson Press, Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, California
Selections from SoHo, Fort Lewis College Art Gallery, Durango, Colorado
Bicultural Identities: Three Émigrés from Bosnia, China and Vietnam, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, Florida
Unthinkable Tenderness: The Art of Human Rights, Art Department Gallery, College of Creative Arts, San Francisco State University

1997-98   
American Stories: Amidst Displacement and Transformation, Japan
         Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
         Chiba City Museum, Chiba
         Fukui Fine Arts Museum, Fukui
         Kurashiki Art City Museum
         Atorion, Akita

1997
Regionalism/Identity, Sheppard Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada
On the Rim, TransAmerica Building, San Francisco, California
Traditions/Innovations: Four Northern California Artists, Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California
American Kaleidoscope: Art At The Close Of This Century, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.

1996-98 
Objects of Personal Significance, Exhibits USA and Eastern Illinois University, Charleston,
         IL, national tour through 1998:
         Eastern Ill. University
         Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
         The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, NY
         Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee
         Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee
         Wichita Center for the Arts, Wichita, Kansas
         Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin, Florida
         Metropolitan State College, Center for Visual Arts, Denver, CO.

1996
Gender - Beyond Memory, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Excavating Culture, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont
Generations – The Lineage of Influence in Bay Area Art, Richmond Art Center, California
Family In Focus: Cultural Diversity And The Family, the Noyes Museum, Oceanville, New Jersey
Microsoft ArtWalk 12, Print exhibition, Microsoft Corporate Campus, Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, Washington
Setting the Stage: A Contemporary View of the West, the Eiteljorg Museum, Indianapolis, Indiana

1995
Dis-Oriented; Shifting Identities of Asian Women in America, curated by Margo Machida, Steinbaum Krauss Gallery and the Henry Street Settlement, New York City
Making Faces - American Portraits, the Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, New York
10X10: Ten Contemporary Women Artists, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley, California
Reinventing The Emblem: Contemporary Artists Recreate a Renaissance Idea, the Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

1994
Garden Variety, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
Memories of Childhood..., Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, New York
Women's Spirit: Pacita Abad, Hung Liu, Amalia Mesa-Bains, Howardena Pindell, and Joyce Scott, Bomani Gallery, San Francisco, California
Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington
Pyramid Atlantic Evolution of the Print: Fourteen Years of Collaboration, Addison/Ripley Fine Art, Washington, D.C.
Asia America: Identities in Contemporary Asian American Art, the Asia Society Galleries, New York, NY
New Voices 1994, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
Asia Minor, Kay Larson, New York
Paintings, An Asian Perception, the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

1993
The 43rd Corcoran Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, The Corcoran Museum Of Art, Washington D.C.
Picasso to Christo: The Evolution of a Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
Twelve Bay Area Painters: The Eureka Fellowship Winners, San Jose Museum Of Art, San Jose, California
Backtalk, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California
Redefining Self, San Jose State University Art Galleries, School of Art and Design, San Jose, California
Narratives of Loss - the Displaced Body, University of Wisconsin Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
In Transit, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

1992-93
Art & The Law, a traveling show presented by West Art & The Law

1992
Floored Art, Steinbaum/Krauss Gallery, New York
Counterweight: Alienation, Assimilation, Resistance, Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara, California
In Plural America, Contemporary Journeys, Voices and Identities, The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, New York
Society For The Encouragement Of Contemporary Art (SECA) Award, 1992: with John Beech and Maria Porges, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Virgin Territories, Long Beach Museum Of Art, Long Beach, California
Voices, Shea & Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Social Figuration, San Diego State University Gallery, San Diego, California
Why Painting-Part 1, curated by Bill Berkson, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, California
Decoding Gender, curated by Robert Atkins, School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, Maryland

1991-92
Counter Colon-ialismo, Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, California, traveling among multiple sites from September 1991 through December 1992.

1991
Mito Y Magic En America, Los Ochenta, (Myth and Magic in America, the 80s), Monterrey
Museum of Contemporary Art, Monterrey, Mexico
Selected Bay Area Drawings, Pro-Arts, Oakland, California
Selected Bay Area Drawings, Drawing Center, New York
Viewpoints: Eight Installations, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, California

1990
Official Language, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
Implosion, a three-person exhibition with Lawrence Andrews and Lewis deSoto, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California
Precarious Links: Emily Jennings, Hung Liu, and Celia Munoz, curated by Jim Edwards, San Antonio Museum of Art; Lawndale Art and Performance Center, Houston, Texas
Contemporary Art by Women of Color, Hemisfair Plaza, San Antonio, Texas. Organized by the Cultural Center, San Antonio.
Memory/Reality, Ceres Gallery, New York, New York

1987
Art in the Metroplex, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas
Artists for Amnesty, Dallas Public Library, Dallas, Texas
UTA Faculty: New Work, UTA Center for Research in Contemporary Art, University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas
Texas Sculpture Symposium, exhibiting artist: I Am Not A Cubist (Foot in Mouth), San Antonio, Texas

1980
National Fine Arts Colleges Exhibition, a traveling group show in China

1978
Portraiture Exhibition, Winter Palace Gallery, Beijing, China

 

PUBLIC ART PROJECTS

2008
Take Off, San Francisco International Airport, International Terminal Gate A-5, San Francisco, California
Going Away, Coming Home, Oakland International Airport Terminal 2 Window Project, 10’ x 160’, Oakland, California

2004
May Hearts in San Francisco, Civic Center, Exterior Entrance of the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, California

2001-02
Above the Clouds, Cerritos Library, commissioned by the City of Cerritos, California

1996 Sep
The  Long Wharf, #1 Embarcadero Center, SkyDeck, 41st floor, San Francisco, California

1995
Fortune Cookie, a public art work, the San Jose Museum of Art and the City of San Jose collection

1992 Sep
Map No. 33, Esplanade Ballroom Lobby, Moscone Convention Center, San Francisco, California

1988 Aug
Reading Room, a permanent, public, off-site mural installation of the Capp Street Project, at the Community Room of Chinese for Affirmative Action, Kuo Building, Chinatown, San Francisco, California

1986 Apr
Up and Tao, permanent mural installation, interior stairwell, Media Center and Communications Building, University of California, San Diego

1981
The Music of the Great Earth, permanent mural, Foreign Students Dining Hall, the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN
San Francisco International Airport, CA
Oakland International Airport, Port of Oakland, CA
National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC
Washington Convention Center, Washington, DC
Library of Congress, Washington, DC
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Oakland Museum of California, CA
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Federal Building, San Francisco, CA
Dallas Museum of Art, TX
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, NE
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH
Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
San Jose Museum of Art, CA
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco-H. M. de Young Memorial Museum, CA
Los Angeles County Museum, CA
Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey, CA
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
First Western Trust Bank, Denver, CO
Muscarelle Museum of Art, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID
Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA
Mills College, Oakland, CA
Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
Santa Clara University, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
Baruch College, William & Anita Newman Library, City University of New York, NY
The University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri
Rutgers Archives for Printmaking Studios at the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ
City of San Francisco, Public Art Program, CA
City of San Jose, CA
City of Cerritos, Cerritos Library, CA
Free Clinic, San Francisco, CA
AT & T Corporation
The St. Paul Companies, St. Paul, MN
Interra Financial, Minneapolis, MN
King County Public Art Collection, Seattle, WA
Larry Evans Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
Mr. & Mrs. Mark Lerdal, San Francisco, CA
Catherine Muther, San Francisco, CA
Joan Danforth, San Francisco, CA
Ann Hatch, San Francisco, CA
Janet Holmgren, Oakland, CA
Shari & Garen Staglin, Napa, CA
Peter & Nancy Gennet, Napa, CA
Dick & Ann Grace, St. Helena, CA
Emily & Dick Shieh, San Diego, CA
Bernice & Harold Steinbaum, Miami, FL
Christine Wheeler,  New York, NY
Eric & Barbara Dobkin, New York, NY
Gerald & Ellen Sigal, Washington D.C.
John & Darcy Hadjipateras, Stanford, CT
Esther S. Weissman, Cleveland, OH
Jan & Roger Hoffman, Tallahassee, FL
Edward Downe, Baltimore, MD
Aaron & Marion Borenstein, Ft. Wayne, IN
Ed & Linda Blackburn, Fort Worth, TX
Diane Middlebrook & Carl Djerassi, London, UK
Robert & Karen Duncan, Lincoln, NE
Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts, Stanford University, CA

 

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