Charlene Liu

Charlene Liu creates paintings, prints, and mixed media installations that blend family histories, cultural references, and decorative patterns to explore the malleable conditions of memory, heritage, and identity. Liu incorporates wide-ranging traditions into her imagery, drawing from nature, food, still life painting, and European and East Asian art and design. Her work has been exhibited at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; the USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; Crow's Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton, OR; LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, New York; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR; and in the 14th Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, Québec. Her work is held in corporate and public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, and the Tacoma Art Museum and has been reviewed in e-flux, the New York Times, Flash Art International, Interview Magazine, and New American Painting. In 2024, Liu was awarded a Hallie Ford Fellowship in the Visual Arts from the Ford Family Foundation. Liu is a Professor of Art and Printmaking at the University of Oregon in Eugene. She received an MFA in Visual Arts from Columbia University in New York and a BA from Brandeis University in Waltham, MA.