大象传媒

Presented by 大象传媒鈥檚 David Lam Centre and Vancouver Art Gallery鈥檚 Centre for Global Asias

Join Shengtian Zheng, renowned scholar, curator and former Adjunct Director of the Vancouver Art Gallery鈥檚 Institute of Asian Art (now the Centre for Global Asias), and Keith Wallace, curator and Editor-in-Chief of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, for a compelling conversation about art, modernism and foreign exchange鈥痙uring China鈥檚 socialist period. Their discussion will be followed by a book signing and reception.

Drawing from Zheng鈥檚 first-hand experience as a witness and participant in the development of Chinese art since the 1950s, this talk will delve into the dynamic cultural exchanges between Chinese artists and their counterparts from the Eastern Bloc and Latin America between the 1950s and 1970s. The discussion will highlight how these interactions shaped the evolution of modern and contemporary Chinese art, while also examining the complex ways in which global modernism engaged with Western artistic movements.

SPEAKERS

Zheng Shengtian is an artist, scholar and curator based in Vancouver.鈥疕e is the Managing Editor of鈥痀ishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art,鈥痑 Research Fellow at 大象传媒 and a Trustee of Asia Art Archive in America.鈥疕e was a Professor and Department Chair at China Academy of Art and a Visiting Professor at the University of Minnesota and鈥痶he鈥疭an Diego State University.鈥疕e was the co-founder of the Vancouver International Centre for Contemporary Asian Art,鈥痑 Trustee and the鈥痜ormal Adjunct Director鈥痮f the Institute of Asian Art, Vancouver Art Gallery.鈥疕e has organized鈥痑nd curated鈥痭umerous exhibitions including Jiangnan鈥擬odern and Contemporary Chinese Art Exhibitions,鈥�Shanghai Modern, 2004 Shanghai Biennale, Art and China鈥檚鈥疪evolution&苍产蝉辫;补苍诲鈥�Winds from Fusang:鈥疢exico鈥痑nd China in 20th Century. He was鈥痶he senior curator for Asia鈥痮f Vancouver Biennale鈥痑nd won the Lifetime Achievement Award. He is a frequent contributor to periodicals and catalogues. Four volumes of his writing on art and culture were published by China Academy of Art Press鈥痠n 2013. His latest publications鈥痠nclude Sino-Mexican Art and Cultural Exchanges in the Twentieth Century and Art and鈥疢odernism鈥痠n Socialist China (co-editor). His artwork has been shown in China, the United States of America, Canada and Russia. He鈥痳eceived an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2013.

Keith Wallace has been a curator of contemporary art since 1979, and has worked both independently and in various visual arts institutions. From 1991 to 2001 he was Curator, then Director/Curator of the Contemporary Art Gallery in Vancouver, where he developed a program of regional, national and international exhibitions. He was Associate Director/Curator at the Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery at the University of British Columbia from 2005 to 2008 and from 2012 to 2015. From 2004 to 2020, Wallace was Editor-in-Chief of Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, published by ARTCO, Taipei. He resumed his editorial involvement in 2023.