Profile:
Dr. Kuiyi Shen is an art historian and critic whose research focuses on modern and contemporary Chinese art and Sino-Japanese art exchanges in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He is the author and co-author of numerous books, exhibition catalogues, and articles including A Century in Crisis: Tradition and Modernity in the Art of Twentieth Century China (New York, 1998); The Thunder and the Rain: Chinese Paintings from the Opium War to the Cultural Revolution (San Francisco, 2000); Word and Meaning: Six Contemporary Chinese Artists (Buffalo, 2000); Zhou Brothers—Thirty Years of Collaboration (Stuttgart, Germany, 2004), Shanghai Modern (Munich, Germany, 2005), Elegant Gathering (San Francisco, 2006), and Arts of Modern China (Berkeley, forthcoming). He also maintains an active career as a curator. Among the exhibitions he has curated, the best known are A Century in Crisis: Tradition and Modernity in the Art of Twentieth Century China held at the Guggenheim Museums in New York and Bilbao in 1998, and Chengdu Biennial in 2007. He is the recipient of fellowship awards and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, Social Science Research Council, Luce Foundation, Blakemore Foundation, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, and Stanford University.
Contact Info:
Office: Visual Arts Faculty Room 365
Phone: (858) 534-6104
E-mail: kshen@ucsd.edu