Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

30 min 18 stops
With this exhibition, the National Portrait Gallery’s first retrospective devoted to an Asian American woman, we celebrate Hung Liu, whose paintings have established new frameworks for understanding portraiture in relation to time, memory, and histor...
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Introduction to the Exhibition

01:48 | Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

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Hung Liu as a graduate student, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, China

01:19 | Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

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Where Is Mao?

01:05 | Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

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Mission Girls

01:12 | Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

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Dangling

01:08 | Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

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Resident Alien

02:23 | Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

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Little Artist

00:54 | Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

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The Botanist

01:04 | Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

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Father’s Day

01:05 | Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

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Hung Liu's Family Photos

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Madonna

02:38 | Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

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Goddess of Love, Goddess of Liberty

01:07 | Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

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Chinese Profile II

01:10 | Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

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Strange Fruit: Comfort Women

02:18 | Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

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Refugee: Opera

00:58 | Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

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Migrant Mother: Mealtime

02:38 | Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

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South

01:13 | Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands

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Wandering

00:58 | (online only)

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Venue

Smithsonian Portrait Gallery

Washington DC

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