Communitas Lecture Series: Hung Liu

Hung Liu grew up in Changchun, China, and studied mural painting as a graduate student in Beijing before immigrating to the U.S. Known for paintings based on historical Chinese photographs, Liu’s subjects are prostitutes, refugees, street performers, soldiers, laborers and prisoners. She challenges the documentary authority of historical Chinese photographs by subjecting them to the more reflective process of painting. Liu is two-time recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in painting.