Orin Zahra, NMWA associate curator, reflects on positioning the artist's profound and layered work alongside her photographic archives.
![A black-and-white photograph of Hung Liu in her early twenties, wearing a collared shirt and short hair tied back. She sits in a wheat field and looks down at a stalk in her hands.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Hung.in_.Fields.FPO_.Cultural.Revolution_crop-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Remembering painter Hung Liu, who has died at age 73; Mónica Mayer discusses her collected writings; Yayoi Kusama's Naoshima pumpkin sculpture is dislodged during a typhoon; and more.
![Hung Liu speaks to an audience about her paintings of Chinese women, which hang on the walls around her. Liu is a light-skinned adult woman with gray hair in a low ponytail, dressed in black with red jewelry and shoes. She stands, gesturing with one hand at a painting to her right.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/2018-06-06-HungLiu-ArtistTalk-_116_-E-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-1-700x330.jpg)
Two paintings by Hung Liu are exciting new additions to NMWA's collection, enabling the museum to showcase Liu’s distinguished skills as a painter and printmaker.
![A painting of a light-skinned woman of Asian descent atop complementary colors of orange-red next to lime green. The shorthaired woman holds a pink handkerchief. To her right is a sad looking fish.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/hl_summerwithcynicalfishHR-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Impress your friends with five fast facts about artist Hung Liu, whose work Winter Blossom (2011) is on view in NMWA’s newly reinstalled collection galleries.
![Two smiling Chinese girls with light skin and black hair painted on a collage of Chinese writing, small red envelopes, a red bird and bug, and blue paint drippings. The older girl, seen waist up, wears her hair in two braids and carries the younger girl in crimson clothes on her back.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2001.155-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Chinese-born American artist Hung Liu (b. 1948) employs traditional Chinese motifs in her works on view in the special exhibition Hung Liu In Print, layering and superimposing them upon images...
![Amid varied motifs that appear collaged or painted on an orange, coral, and peach background, a pair of large black, white, and tan birds perch on a flowering branch, which scatters petals. To the right, a seated, light-skinned woman with Asian features wears an elegant tunic.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/2007.87.7-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)
Although Hung Liu (b. 1948, Changchun, China) works in a variety of mediums, her portraits are unified by a unique style characterized by richly colored veils of drip marks—an effect...
![Two smiling Chinese girls with light skin and black hair painted on a collage of Chinese writing, small red envelopes, a red bird and bug, and blue paint drippings. The older girl, seen waist up, wears her hair in two braids and carries the younger girl in crimson clothes on her back.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/2001.155-aspect-ratio-2.25x1.jpg)
Hung Liu In Print, NMWA’s newest exhibition, features works by Chinese artist Hung Liu (b. 1948) that pay homage to the forgotten individuals who influence history.
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Born in 1948, a year before the Chinese Communist party came to power, Hung Liu grew up in an environment that discouraged apolitical personal expression.
![A square painting with layered, dripping textures of a Chinese woman with dark hair and a traditional dress. She gazes straightforward at the viewer. In front of her, a tree branch extends upward and a bird perches on the end of it. The background consists of two different shades of blue and on the left side of the canvas an open-mouthed fish points towards the woman.](https://nmwa.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Winter_With_Cynical_Fish-aspect-ratio-2.25-1-700x330.jpg)