Yang Wang

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Institutional Affiliation

University of Colorado Denver
College of Arts and Media

Education

Ohio State University
PHD; Art Hidtory
MA; Art History

University of Missouri
BFA; Art
BA; Art History

Regional and Thematic Interests

China, East Asia, Asian art, global modern and contemporary art

Profile

Yang Wang is a specialist of modern and contemporary Asian art with an emphasis on Chinese art of the twentieth century. Her first book, Yellow Earth: Regional Chinese Ink Painting and Global Postwar Modernism, under contract with Harvard University Asia Center, examines the confluence of regionalism, neo-traditionalism, Cold War cultural exchange, and ink painting in the early People’s Republic of China. Her research has been supported by Fulbright, ACLS, Getty, American Oriental Society, and P.E.O. International. As an extension of her scholarship and broader interests in collective practice, politicized aesthetics, transnationalism, and Asian diasporic art, she has curated exhibitions on modern and contemporary Chinese, Korean, and Nepalese art.

She teaches a wide variety of courses on Asian art, global modern and contemporary art, as well as thesis research.