On Thursday, Sacramento State will be host to renowned artist Hung Lui. The event will begin at 2 p.m. at the Hinde Auditorium inside the University Union.

Many critics reflect Lui?s work as a revolution. The artwork represents the tumultuous life of the artist. Lui was born in China in 1948. At the time she was born, China was in its earliest stages of being a communist country.

Her father was imprisoned six months after Lui was born, and was not reunited with him until 1993. In 1968, under the leadership of Mao Zedong, Lui was forced to be a part of China?s Cultural Revolution re-education effort. Lui was 18 years old when it took place. She was one of 16 million Chinese teenagers to be sent to either the countryside or a military camp. Unfortunately, thousands of Chinese were killed under this act. It also forced Lui to leave her mother in the country?s rice fields during this event.

In 1972, Lui enrolled at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing. She was trained in the socialistic-and realistic side of art. Lui immigrated to the United States in 1984. Lui went on to receive her master?s degree in 1986 at the University of California, San Diego. Currently, she is an art professor at Mills College in Oakland.

The presentation focuses on her artwork that portrays the harsh consequences of being in an authoritarian state such as China.

Also, a variety of subjects ranging from her photography to democracy to China’s problems with human rights to its conflict with Taiwan.