Wu Hung, Art Historian, Critic and Curator

Thursday, April 10, 2008

 

On the Contemporaneity of Contemporary Chinese Art

Thursday, April 10, 2008, 7:00pm
University of Tulsa, 207 Lorton Hall


The Harrie H. Vanderstrappen Distinguished Service Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, Wu Hung is one of the premier specialist on Chinese art, past and present. His special research interests include the relationships between the visual forms of Chinese art, e.g., architecture, bronze vessels, etc., and the ritual, social memory and political discourses surrounding those forms. Most recently, he curates exhibitions of contemporary Chinese art, in South Korea as the Chief Curator of the 6th Gwangju Biennale 2006, and in Chicago at the Smart Museum of Art where he is Consulting Curator, among other places.

He is the author of many books on diverse subjects, authoring Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space (University of Chicago, 2005), Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China with Christopher Phillips (University of Chicago, 2004), Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century (University of Chicago, 1999), Monumentality in Early Chinese Art (Stanford University Press, 1995), Three Thousand Years of Chinese Painting (Yale University Press, 1997), and editing Chinese Art at the Crossroads: Between Past and Future, Between East and West (Institute of International Visual Arts, 2001). 
 

Contact:
Mary Whitney
918 631 2739
mary-whitney@utulsa.edu