Hung Liu

Born in Changchun, China in 1948. She grew up in Beijing during the time of communist force, Mao Tse-tung, the Cultural Revolution, Tieneman Square. After graduating fron high school in 1968, she was sent to the countryside where she worked with peasants seven days a week in the rice and wheat fields, over a four year period. She drew portraits and took photographs. In 1972 schools in China began to reopen and Liu entered the Revolutionary Entertainment Department of Beijings's Teachers' College to study art and education. In 1979 she entered the Central Academy of Fine Arts where she majored in mural painting.

In 1984 she began her graduate studies in San Diego.