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Hung Liu: Secret Freedom

USC Pacific Asia Museum · Pasadena
On view December 12, 2026 to July 3, 2027

Groundbreaking Chinese American artist Hung Liu (1948–2021) came of age under Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution, when artistic expression was tightly controlled and painting outside official doctrine carried real risk. Featuring approximately 75 works—including the first public presentation of paintings Liu created secretly in the Mogao caves at Dunhuang in 1980—the exhibition reveals how, in the face of political repression, she built an artistic practice in China, then immigrated to the United…

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