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Dr. CHEN Fong-fong

Research Assistant Professor
Department of Visual Studies, Lingnan University (Hong Kong)

Fellowship Project

Dr. Chen Fong-fong spent seven months at the University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, U.S.A., where she gained curatorial experience and conducted research on the museum’s Chinese painting collection. Dr. Chen participated in the exhibition “Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting”. She also curated “Multiple Encounters” in collaboration with the artist Yang Fudong.

Biography

Dr. Chen Fong-fong is a Research Assistant Professor at the Lingnan University. Prior to her position at Lingnan University, she is a Lecturer in the Department of History at Hong Kong Baptist University. Dr. Chen received her PhD in Chinese Art History from the Department of Fine Arts from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the representation of women and fashion in 18th to 20th century Chinese art. Her other research interests include photography, 20th century transnational history of Chinese art, museum studies and Hong Kong art. Dr. Chen was previously an Associate Curator at the University Museum and Art Gallery, The University of Hong Kong. In 2020, Dr Chen received a MacLean Fellowship which supported her research on the maps of Shanghai, Hong Kong and other regions at the MacLean Collection Map Library in Chicago, USA.

Recent Development and Achievement

    Dr. Chen Fong-fong participated in curating the exhibition “Tradition to Contemporary: Ink Painting and Artistic Development in 20th-century China” (2018); “Ying Tianqi: What Remains in Ruins” (2017) at the University Museum and Art Gallery, Hong Kong University and curated an exhibition, “Silent Voices” at 1a Space in 2020.

Selected Publication(s)

Dr. Chen Fong-fong has published articles in academic journals such as Ming Qing Yanjiu and contributed entries to several exhibition catalogs, including Beauty Revealed: Images of Women in Qing Dynasty Chinese Painting, The Perfect Brush: Chinese Painting 1300-1900, Tradition to Contemporary: Ink Painting and Artistic Development in 20th-century China, and The Bei Shan Tang Legacy: Chinese Painting.