Su-Li Hung

(b. 1947)

Painter, printmaker, and poet, Su-Li Hung was born in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, in 1947. She graduated from National Taiwan University with a degree in Art and Chinese Literature before moving to New York City in 1970 to study painting and printmaking at The Art Students League and The National Academy School of Fine Art.

Hung is a member of the Society of American Graphic Artists (SAGA) and has received numerous honors, including two Gold Medals from the Audubon Artists Annual Juried Exhibitions, the Delta National Small Prints Exhibition Purchase Prize, three awards from the SAGA Annual Juried Exhibitions, and prizes from the Silvermine Guild National Print Exhibition and The Boston Printmakers.

Her work is represented in major public collections, including The Cleveland Museum of Art; The Fogg Museum, Harvard University; Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; The British Museum, London; The New-York Historical Society; Newark Public Library; Boston Public Library; and the National Museum of Fine Art, Vietnam.

In addition to her visual art, Hung has published thirty-one books in Taiwan and Hong Kong—collections of short stories, poetry, and essays—and has recently authored and illustrated two children’s books.

“Carving on the wood board—my first woodcut, 1970, a dead butterfly, monarch, trembling black line to shape the delicate butterfly, delicate, yet still having the strength of struggling life, a broken breath. I called my first woodcut On the Wings of Music. Thirty years later, I have made over 300 woodcuts and still feel as if I am making my first cut into the wood—still under the shadow of the monarch, its wings migrating, delicate yet full of strength, indefinite yet determined.”