ABOUT
Born in Taiwan and raised in the American Midwest, Charlene Liu is an artist based in Oregon. Liu’s paintings, prints, and mixed media installations weave together family histories, cultural references, and decorative patterns to explore memory, heritage, and identity. Liu incorporates wide-ranging traditions into her imagery, drawing from nature, food, still life paintings, ornamentation, and East Asian art and design. Her work has been exhibited at the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA; USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Portland State University, OR; LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY; Tacoma Art Museum, WA; Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, Pendleton, OR; Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR; Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR; Feves Art Gallery, Blue Mountain Community College, Pendleton, OR; and the 14th Biennale internationale d’estampe contemporaine de Trois-Rivières, Quebec, Canada. Her work is represented in public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, the New Museum, New York, NY; and the Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington. In 2024, Liu was awarded a Hallie Ford Fellowship in the Visual Arts from the Ford Family Foundation. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from Columbia University, New York, and a Bachelor of Arts from Brandeis University, Waltham, MA. Liu is a Professor of Art and Printmaking at the University of Oregon.