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Yang Wang

Associate Professor
  • Visual Arts (CAM)

Email Address:yang.wang@ucdenver.edu

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. 

Areas of Expertise

Asian art;
Modern and Contemporary art

Education, Licensure & Certifications

Ohio State University
PHD; Art Hidtory
MA; Art History

University of Missouri
BFA; Art
BA; Art History


Awards

2022        Excellence in Research, College of Arts & Media, University of Colorado Denver

2022        Celebrate Equity Award, College of Arts & Media, University of Colorado Denver 

College of Arts & Media

CU Denver

Arts Building

1150 10th Street

Suite 177

Denver, CO 80204


303-315-7400

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