Mary Lee Hu is an American artist, goldsmith, innovator, and college level educator.
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Hu first became fascinated with metalwork during high school introductory courses. She later explored more work with metals during a summer camp. Hu has always wanted to be a visual artist. During her undergraduate education Hu developed her skills and continued to work with small scale metalwork and jewelry. Hu developed her signature style during graduate school. This was when she first started to work with fiber inspired techniques after taking a fiber arts course. From then on Hu worked with wire wrapped jewelry. Hu has developed new techniques in coiling, wrapping, weaving, knitting, and twining wire.[1] After her education she traveled numerous places to exhibit her work. She later became a member and president of the Society of North American Goldsmiths. She also is a member of organizations such as the American Craft Council and the World Crafts Council.
“The Art of Gold” The Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC Anchorage Museum of History and Art, Anchorage, AK “Korean & American Metalsmithing Exhibition”, Kepco Plaza Gallery, Seoul, Korea.
“The Art of Gold” organized by the Society of North American Goldsmiths and tours by Exhibits USA Crocker Art Museum
Summer Arts Festival Mirabela Arts Exhibit, Odegaard Undergraduate Library, University of Washington
“Exuberance”, Facere Jewelry Art Gallery, Seattle (with Kevin Glenn Crane)
"Flet/Braid", Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
“Curves Revisited”, Susan Cummins Gallery, Mill Valley, CA
“Celebrating American Craft”, Kunstindustrie Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
"Mary Lee Hu: Master Metalsmith", National Ornamental Metal Museum, Memphis, TN
"Documents Northwest: 6 Northwest Jewelers" Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
"Sculptural Concerns: Contemporary American Metalworking",Fort Wayne Museum of Art,national tour
"Design Visions, The Second Australian International Crafts Triennial". Art Gallery of Western Australia
"Helen Williams Drutt Collection", Helsinki, Finland
"The 20th Anniversary Show", Electrum Gallery, London, England
"Mary Lee Hu: Goldsmith", The Merrin Gallery, New York, NY
"Craft Today USA", Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY and European Tour
Concepts Gallery, Carmel and Palo Alto, CA
"Korean-American Contemporary Metalwork Exhibition 1988", Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea
"The Eloquent Object", organized by The Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, US and Japan tour
"Craft Today, Poetry of the Physical", Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, national tour
“American Jewelry NOW", Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, Asia tour
"Barbara Rockefeller Associates Collection", Anatole Orient Gallery, London, England
"Masterworks of Contemporary American Jewelry: Sources and Concepts", The Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England
"International Jewelry Invitational", Rudolf Dentler Gallery, Ulm, Germany
The Hand and the Spirit Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
"Jewelry USA", organized by the Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY, national tour
University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
Invitational of American Jewelry, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Traditional Industry, Kyoto
Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN
"Good as Gold: Alternative Materials in American Jewelry", Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian, Washington, DC, national tour
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND
"Tenth anniversary Exhibition", Electrum Gallery, London, England
"The Golden Thread-Textures in Gold", Touring International Competition
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA
"International Jewellery 1900-1980", Kunslerhaus, Vienna
"Fourth International Jewellery Art Exhibition", Jewellery Designers Association, Mikimoto, Tokyo
"Society of North American Goldsmiths", by Society of North American Goldsmiths national tour
Eastern Kentucky University Gallery, Richmond, KY
"Silver in American Life", Yale University Art Gallery
"Modern American Jewelry Exhibition", Mikimoto & Co., Tokyo
"American Crafts at the Vatican Museum", Vatican City
Goldsmith Hall, London (with Harper, Scherr, Seppa)
Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
Illinois State University, Normal, IL
“Creative Jewelry”, Design Center, Manila, Philippines
University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison, WI
"6 Contemporary American Jewellers", Electrum Gallery, London
"Forms in Metal-275 Years of Metalsmithing in America",[[ Museum of Contemporary Crafts]], New York, NY
"Contemporary Crafts of the Americas: 1975", Competitive exhibition, Colorado State University national tour
“Beaux Arts designer/Craftsmen ‘75”, Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Columbus, OH.
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
“Goldsmith/74”, by the Renwick Gallery and the Minnesota Museum of Art.
"World Silver Fair", International competition, Taxco and Mexico City, Mexico
“Profile 1974”, Humber College, Rexdale, Ontario, Canada
“Goldsmith ‘70”, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN
"Young Americans '69", Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY
Crafts Alliance Gallery, St. Louis, MO