As part of PSU's campus-wide Viking Days' events, JSMA at PSU is excited to welcome all students returning to campus this fall to join us for a Night at the Museum. Come enjoy some light snacks, music, and our new exhibition, A Question of Hu: The Narrative Art of Hung Liu From The Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.
The exhibition features artwork by groundbreaking Chinese American artist Hung Liu (1948–2021). Liu made highly narrative images that foreground workers, immigrants, refugees, women, children and soldiers in haunting, incandescent portraits, weaving together Chinese and Western artistic traditions. One of the first Chinese artists to establish a career in the United States, Liu explored the fragile relationship between memory and history in paintings and works on paper that focus on communities misrepresented or marginalized by official narratives.
This exhibition is curated by Christian Viveros-Fauné, in conjunction with Converge 45 Biennial Program, Social Forms: Art As Global Citizenship.
Installation view of A Question of Hu: The Narrative Art of Hung Liu From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, on view August 22 - December 2, 2023, Image: Aaron Wessling Photography, Courtesy of the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at Portland State University (Portland, Oregon).