Dr. Kuiyi Shen

Biography

Kuiyi Shen is a Professor of Asian Art History, Theory, and Criticism, and serves as the Vice Chair and Director of the Ph.D. Program at the University of California, San Diego. His teaching and writing primarily focus on modern and contemporary Chinese art, including Sino-Japanese art exchanges during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Shen earned his BA in Fine Arts from Shanghai Normal University and both his MA and Ph.D. in Art History from Ohio State University. Prior to coming to the United States in 1989, he was the director of the art book department at Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House. His teaching experience includes positions at Ohio University, the State University of New York at Buffalo, Rice University, and the University of Oregon. Shen is the author and co-author of numerous books and exhibition catalogues about modern and contemporary Chinese art, including "Century Crisis: Tradition and Modernity in Art of Twentieth Century China" and "Ink and Light." He has also published articles in various academic journals and has worked as a curator for notable projects in China and the United States. His wide-ranging courses cover topics related to Chinese and Japanese art, as well as thematic lectures on Chinese landscape painting and modernity in Chinese art.

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