Kao, Chien-Hui, a Chicago-based art critic, independent scholar, received her M.A. in Liberal Arts at the University of Chicago. She was a visiting scholar at Montclair State University, New Jersey, a guest associate professor in the graduate school at Tunhai University, and was guest curator the Taipei Fine Art Museum's Taiwan Pavilion the 49th Venice Biennale. Author of the books as the following: Art and Culture in the Early 90's, The Public Art Movement in Chicago, The Art Icons in the 20th Century, A Journey to the Contemporary Art, The Cross-Cultural Exchange of Han and Tang Dynasty Weaving Via the Silk Road. After Origin-- On the Topics of Contemporary Chinese art, The Seduction of Daily Life, Nothing about Critique, Rebellion in Silhouette, The Moving Horizon: The Essential Cuide of Uptian Art.
Academic Background
MLA, Graham Graduate School, University of Chicago.
Modern Art History and Museum Studies, Art History Deparrtment, Art Institue of Chicago.
Two Years Advance Drawing and Painting, Drise Fine Art Studio, Chicago.
Master of Arts History ( Chinese Art History), Gradate School of Chinese Culture University. Taipei, Taiwan
Fine Art, Chinese Culture University. Taipei , Taiwan.
Professional Experiences
Jury of Kaohsiung Awards, 2008/2009, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts
Collection Committee of the Kaohsiung Museumof Fine Arts, January 2008-December 2009
Cuest Associate Professor, Graduate School of Tunghai University, Fall-Winter, 2004
Guest Curator, Art Museums in Taiwan. 1998,2000,2001.
Visiting Specialist of Asia Arts, Montclair State University, New Jersey, 2000.
Feature Writer for international art exhibitions in America, Germany, Italy, Taiwan, and China, 1991-now
English Editor, Ladder Publishing Co. in Taipe1986-1987
Editor and Reporter in Art and Literary Section, Shin Min Daily News in Singapore,1984-1985
Assistant Researcher,Taipei Fine Art Museum,1983- 984
Art Columns
Kao Chien Hu's Column Contemporary Artist Magazine, 2006-Present
Thinkers on Contemporary Art , Artist Magazine, 2006
Artists' Portraits For Coart Magazine, 2004-2005
Civial Aesthetics of the Others, For Artist magazine, 2004-2005
City Reviewer For Artist magazine,2003-2004
Point of Artview for Artist Magazine, 2001-2003
Freedom of Watching for Artchina, 1999
2000 Art Showcase for Mountain Art, 1998
Art & letters for Hotart, 1995
Contemporary Chinese Artists in Overseas for Artist Magazine, 1996-1998
Art Dialogue for Hstung Shih Art Monthly, 1995
The Other Publications
I. Essays in Catalogues for Art Exhibition
Madden Reality Post-Taipei Art Group, Taipei Fine Art Museum, 2009
Who's Speaking? Who's Listening? The post-colonial and the Transnational in contestation and the Strategies of the Taipei Biennale and the Beijing International Art Biennale, YisHu, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, January/February, 2009, Volume8, Number 1
World-Making and Mirror-Reflection: Zhan Wang's Art in Time and Space / between Worry and Wander, Yi Shu,
Kaohsiung Awards 2008 , Essays by Observers, Kaohsiung Fine Art Museum, 2008
Dynamics and Spreading: Influence of Modern Chinese Art, Sotheby's 20 Century Chinese Art, Hong Kong, 2008
Zhan Wang, China Art Museum, May 2008
Znang Nian, Waiting, Today Art Museum , April 2008
Mojong Hoo，Art Mountain Museum, March 2001
The Dawn and Evening of Sowers, Sowing, the Opening Exhibition of Fung Jia Museum, Taipei, October, 1999
Another Spiritual Perch-Abstract Art in Taiwan, Visions of Pluralism: Contemporary Art in Taiwan, 1988-1999, China Art Museum, Beijing, October, 1999/National History Museum, Taipei, Jan,2000
LandForm: The land on the Mind, National Art Club, New York /East Gallery of State Capital of Oklahoma, May to July 1999
Magnetic Writing /Marching Ideas, Works on Paper, ITPARK, Taipei, May 1999
The Third Kind of Encounter, a Group Exhibition of Asian Artists from Chicago, Taipei Gallery, New York, November 1998
Nature Within, Chihung Yang, Impression Gallery, Taipei, October, 1997
The Mind of Abstract, Painting by Jenny Chen, Home Gallery, Taipei, November, 1996
From Native and Foreign Land, the exhibition for Szeto Keung 1978-1996, Cherng Pin Gallery, Taipei, October 1996
Art in Taiwan/Made in Taiwan, the exhibition of Taiwan Visual Art history, Crown Art Center, February, 1994
II. Selected Essays in Books
Selected Writins on Contemporary Taiwanese Artists, 2007, Taipei Fine Art Museum
City of Swallow：Migration, Post/Colonial Memory and New Taiwan Color, 2006
Symposium Papers for The First Beijing International Art Biennale, China, 2003
New Challenges: Facing the Pluralism, Artnow, September,2002
Art Criticism In Taiwan, 1997-1998, Dimension Endowment of Art, December 1999
Hsiung Ping-Ming, Contemporary Chinese Art Collection, Mountain Art Museum, June 1999
The Great Nature in the Modern Chinese Paintings, Published by Guang Xi Publish, October 1999
A Cross-field Dialogue: 1997 Taipei-Hong Kong Art Criticism Conference, Published by The council for Cultural Affair, Executive Yuan. May 1998
Art Criticism Documents Taiwan:1990-1996, Published by Dimension Endowment of Art,1997
DEOA Art Criticism Award 1995, Published by Dimension Endowment of art, September 1996
Visual Culture in Taiwan, 1975-1995, published by Artist Publishing, May 1995
Taiwan Ideology in Art, Published by Hsiung Shih Art Publishing, August, 1994
Awards, Honors, and Grants
Grant for Curatorship in Visual Art, National Cultural And Art Foundation, Taipei, 2004
Study Grant for Contemporary Chinese Art , National Cultural and Art Foundation, Taipai
Award of Art Criticism, Dimensions Art Foundation in 1997, Taipei
The year author of Golden Award, Jin Ding Jiang, in 1996, Taipei.
Award of Art Criticism, Dimensions Art Foundation in 1995, Taipei
Professional Activities
Art Jury
Kaohsiung Awards, 2009
Kaohsiung Awards, 2008
Lectures / Conference
■ Lecture and Gallery Talk: Towards to Modern Chinese Art, Sotheby's, Honk Kong, October, 2008
■ 2008 Conference of Beijing Biennale, Beijing. July, 2008
■ 2008 Association of Art Historians Annual Conference, Tate Britain , London
Section: , Migration, and the Mega-Exhibition: Considering the Impacts of Contemporary Festivals, Biennales, and Documentas
Topic: Off the Strategic Essentialism: The Complexity of Identity in the Beijing Biennale and theTaipei Biennale
■ PERFORMA 07 in New York
Long March Project – Harlem School of New Social Realism, November, 2007, New York
■ Contemporary Taiwanese Art in Venice Biennale (1995-2005)
University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), 2007.3
■ Projects about the Energy of Creation
National Taiwan Art University 台北,2006.6
■ The Development of Modern Art in Postwar Taiwan: With a Particular Forces on the Role of the National Museum of History
■ Re-creation and Re-presentation: The Meaning of Human Body in Digital Art
Contemporary Taiwanese Art in the Era of Contention:An International Symposium, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, Cornell University 2004. 4
■ Colloquium: Square and Circle/ The return of Oriental Mythic Form in New Age, Taipei Gallery, Chinese Information and Culture Center of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York. New York. 2001.3
■ Conference: Art and Humanism, Lecture: Awareness of Space in Art. Buddha Enlightenment University ( Fu Kung University), Yi-Lan, Taiwan 2000.12)
■ Writing on Art: the theory and practice in art critic / The Journey of Art Writing，Art CriticAssociation, Taipei, Taiwan ( 台北, 2000.12 )
■ Conference of Taiwan Art in the 100 years，Taiwan Art Museum, Taichung, Taiwan 2000.12
■ Contemporary Asian Art: Reflections of Chinese Cultural Identity Conflicts，International Global Center, Montclair State University. 2000.11
■ Maping a New Cultural Identity: The Current Mentality of Contemporary Art in Taiwan. Montclair State University, School of Art, Art Forum 2000.10
■ Culture and Contested Identities in East Asia;An International Research Conference .University of Maryland. Organized by: Institute for Global Chinese Affairs and Department of Art History and Archaeology, University of Maryland.2000.9
■ Colloquium for the Centenary of Lin Fengmian /Conference for Chao Chung-Hsiang. Shanghei, China. 1999.11
■ Colloquium for Visions of Pulualism, China Art Museum. Beijing, China. 1999.10
■ The Dilemma of Contemporary Ink Art / ,The Cultural Issue of Overseas Contemporary Chinese Artists / The Gene of Bohemian, Organized by Cherng-Pin Tribune, Taipei, Taiwan.1999.4
■ The Chinese Sun-Sui and the Western Landscape in 20 Century, Chinese Oil Painting Association, Mountain Art Foundation, Lee ke Lan Art Foundation, Beijing, China. 1998.11
■ The Conference of the Independent Curators of Contemporary Chinese Art, Taiwan Museum of Art. Taichung, Taiwan. 1998.7
■ A Cross-Field Dialoque:1997 Taipei-Hong Kong Art Criticism Conference, Council of Cultural Affairs, Executive Yuan and Dimension Endowment of Art, Taipei, Taiwan. 1997.11
■ Dynamism and Diversity-Contemporary Art in Taiwan,Taipei Gallery and Taipei Theater of Chinese information And Culture Center, New York. 1996.12
■ Chicago Public Art，Chinese writers Association of Greater Chicago, Chicago.1996.6
■ Art and Gender , Organized by Overseas Chinese Art and Literature Festival and Chinese Writers Association of Greater Chicago, Chicago, 1995.5 |
