Wu Hung
Wu Hung, a permanent member
of the American Academy of Art and Science and the recipient of a Harvard
University honorary degree, is a famous art historian, critic, and curator.
Currently he holds the Harrie A. Vanderstappen Distinguished Service
Professorship at the Department of Art History and the Department of East Asian
Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, and is also the
director of the Center for the Art of East Asia and the Consulting Curator at
the Smart Museum at the same university. He sits on many international
committees including Guggenheim Museum’s Asian Art Council, and chairs the
Academic Committees of OCT Contemporary Art Terminal and Yuz Museum. Wu Hung’s
research interests include both traditional and contemporary art. Regarding
contemporary art, he has curated many exhibitions since the 1980s, including
individual artists’ one-person shows, thematic group exhibitions, and biennales
and triennials. In addition to the catalogues that he compiled for these
exhibitions, he has published many influential books and anthologies, including
Making History: Wu Hung on Contemporary
Art (2008), Wu Hung on Contemporary
Chinese Artists (2009), Contemporary
Chinese Art: Primary Documents (2010), A
Story of Ruins: Presence and Absence in Chinese Art and Visual Culture
(2012), Contemporary Chinese Art: A
History (2014), and Zooming In:
Histories of Photography in China (2017).