i hope i still feel this way tomorrow, November 4 - December 5, 2026, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR
Liu’s fifth solo show with Elizabeth Leach Gallery traverses painted and printed mediums and utilizes a variety of techniques to materialize the intangible, subtle moments of recall, recognition, and change that occur on the edge of perception and imagination. The artist employs tactile, highly manual processes such as hand-carved hatching which ground herself and viewers in the steady, conscious passage of time.
Eons: Unraveling Time, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, OR, Southern Oregon University on view October 15, 2026 to March 13, 2027
Curated by Maria de Los Angeles, Eons: Unraveling Time brings together eleven artists whose practices span painting, sculpture, photography, installation, printmaking, textiles, and video. While their materials and visual languages differ, each artist considers time not simply as chronology, but as something embodied, stitched into fabric, embedded in memory, carried through ritual, and transformed through acts of making.
Charlene Liu: Scallion at The Henry Sculpture Court, University of Washington ON View July 2025 - July 2027
For this inaugural mural presentation in the Henry’s Sculpture Court, Liu presents a lush, imagined landscape built from food-inspired forms. This work builds on her ongoing engagement with food as a means to locate culture and heritage amidst diaspora. Rendered in a fluid, multi-layered, visual language, this fantastical landscape offers a portal to reflect on how culinary traditions build belonging in place and playfully celebrates the importance of shared food experiences. First Look: Spirit House & Charlene Liu on Thursday, August 14, 2025, 6:00 PM — 8:00 PM.
The Ford Family Foundation Names Three Oregon Visual Artists as Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts for 2024
The Hallie Ford Fellows in the Visual Arts have just been announced. From a pool of 179 applicants, Marcus Fischer, Sam Hamilton and Charlene Liu were selected for the quality, evolution and impact of their work.
“Charlene, Marcus and Sam are blazing paths through the contemporary art world,” said Kara Inae Carlisle, president and CEO of The Ford Family Foundation. “They are living into the vision Hallie Ford held for robust and transformative visual arts here in Oregon.”
Read the press release: Meet the artists.
Vanessa Holyoak on “Another Beautiful Country: Moving Images BY Chinese American Artists”
Working across video, installation, photography, language, and performance, the artists in “ABC” produce images that “move” both literally and affectively. Diasporic familial relations are foregrounded throughout. Taiwan-born, US-based Charlene Liu’s qípáo prints, Red Dress, Petals Undone, and Perfect Brightness (2015), for example, feature digitally manipulated photographs of qípáos hailing from both the artist’s and curator’s families. These adorn a wall of her large-scale installation China Palace (2023), an in-situ recreation of the artist’s mother’s now-shuttered Chinese restaurant, formerly located in a Wisconsin strip mall.
Aapi La Podcast presents another Beautiful Country with Jenny Lin, Vivian Wenli Lin, and Charlene Liu
Another Beautiful Country is an exhibition that draws its name from the Chinese translation of America (美國/měiguó) and the common term, American-born Chinese, or ABC. The exhibit features many local AAPI artists and presents their experiences. Through their works, the artists present transnational relations, familial dynamics, and intimate tales of migration. Those featured in this episode are the exhibit’s curator, Jenny Lin, Vivian Wenli Lin, and Charlene Liu.
Labor of Love at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art PSU Curated by Alexandra Terry, Curator of Contemporary Art, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe
The artists featured in Labor of Love produce work that aims to expose and highlight labor practices that have been historically and systematically concealed from the public sphere. Working across a wide variety of media and using a range of conceptual approaches, the eight artists exhibited here seek to explore that which is often hidden just under the surface or kept at arm’s length: the physical, emotional, and intellectual labor that is vital to the smooth and ongoing function of innumerable aspects of our everyday lives. On view January 16 - April 27, 2024.
Another Beautiful Country: Moving Images by Chinese American Artists curated by Jenny Lin, Phd/林珍妮博士
Another Beautiful Country is on view at the USC Pacific Asia Museum from January 26, 2024 through April 21, 2024. Artists: Patty Chang /張怡, Jennifer Ling Datchuk /玲, Richard Fung /房惠晴, Rania Ho /何颖宜, Andrew Thomas Huang/黃卓寧, Simon Leung/梁碩恩, Candice Lin/ 林從欣, Vivian Wenli Lin /林雯莉, Charlene Liu /劉家瑜, Ken Lum / 林蔭庭