Spark Artist

Printmaking, painting & installation

‍Charlene Liu creates paintings, prints and installations that blend family histories, cultural references and decorative patterns. 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; Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR; Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR; USC Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, CA; Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Portland State University, OR; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; and the LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY. Her work is held in private and public collections including the Museum of Modern Art and the New Museum in New York, NY; the Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; and the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Liu was awarded a 2024 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, Eugene, OR.