PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1992-present	Associate Professor, Department of Art History, University of Oregon
1995-2000; 2003-present	Curator of Asian Art, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (formerly UO Museum of Art)
2001-2003	Director, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Oregon
1986-1992	Assistant Professor, Department of Art History, Dartmouth College

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Regular Course Offerings: • Arts of China survey (ARH 208, Blackboard) • Chinese Funerary Art (ARH 384, Blackboard) • Chinese Buddhist Art (ARH 387, Blackboard) • Landscape and Garden • Late Imperial China • Chinese Calligraphy • Advanced seminar (topic varies)   Occasional Course Offerings • Korean Art and Culture • Text/Image • India Survey • Special Topics

 

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SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Evaluations of Sung Dynasty Painters of Renown: Liu Tao-ch'un's Sung-ch'ao ming-hua p'ing. T'oung Pao monographie XVI (Leiden: E.J.Brill, 1990).

Ming-ch'i Figures from the Collection of William F. Little (Hanover: Hood Museum of Art, 1989). {exhibition brochure}

"Art," in Critical Terms for the Study of Buddhism, ed. Donald Lopez (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), pp.37-55.

"Bodhisattva Imagery," in The Encyclopedia of Buddhism, ed. Robert Buswell (New York: Macmillan, 2003).

"Chan Art," in The Encyclopedia of Buddhism, ed. Robert Buswell (New York: Macmillan, 2003).

“Chinese Landscape Art,” in The Encyclopedia of World Environmental History, eds. Shepard Krech III et al (New York: Routledge, 2003).

"The Presence of the Past in Contemporary Guohua," in Mo Yun Shi/ Ink, Rhythm, Poetry (Seattle: Bank of America Gallery, 2001). {exhibition brochure}

"Chinese Calligraphy," in Visible Traces (Teacher's Guide), New York: The Asia Society, 2000

"The Fragrance of Ink: Korean Literati Painting of the Choson Dynasty from Korea University," Korean Culture 18.2 (Summer 1997): 4-13.

"Blindness and Oversight: A Double-Portrait of Qianlong and the New Sinology," Journal of the American Oriental Society 116.4 (1996): 736-44.

"Why Did the Patriarch Cross the River? The Rushleaf Bodhidharma Reconsidered," Asia Major 3rd ser. 6.2 (1993): 237-268.

"The 'Image Made by Chance' in China and the West: Ink Wang Meets Jackson Pollock's Mother," Art Bulletin LXXIV.3 (1992): 499-510.

"Arhats in the Treetops," Artibus Asiae 51.3/4 (1991): 234-256.

"Liu Daochun's 'Genre Theory' of Art," in From Benares to Beijing: Essays in Honor of Dr. Jan Yün-hua, eds. Gregory Schopen and Koichi Shinohara (Mosaic Press, 1991): 69-89.

"The Painted Word: 'Creative Transformation' in Chinese Art Theory," in Poetics East and West, ed. Milena Dolezelova-Velingeroa (Toronto Semiotic Circle Monograph 4, 1988-89): 75-92.

"A Portrait of Judge Dee: Mystery & History in VIIth-Century China," CLUES: A Journal of Detection 8.1 (Spring/Summer 1987): 1-10.

"On the Artist's Biography in Sung China: The Case of Li Ch'eng," Biography 9.3 (Summer 1986):189-201.

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CURATORIAL ACTIVITIES

 

Selected Exhibitions and Installations: •"Ukiyo-e Outside In: Western Impressions of the Floating World" ('05) •"Status and Authority in Imperial China" ('05, brochure) •"Art and Everyday Life in Japan" ('05, brochure) •"True Views: Traditions of Korean Painting" ('05, brochure) •"The Art of Death: Chinese Funerary Ceramics" ('05) •"The Realm of Revelation: Vision and Imagination in Later Korean Art" ('00) •"Korean Treasures from the Permanent Collection" ('97, brochure) •"'Long Life!' Auspicious Wishes in East Asian Art" ('97, brochure)

Consulting Curator:

•"New Art in China, Post-1989" ('96)

•"The Fragrance of Ink: Korean Literati Painting of the Chosôn Dynasty (1392-1910) from Korea University Museum" ('97)

•"Imaging Meiji: Emperor and Era--Japanese Prints from the Sharf Collection" ('98)

•"Made in Meiji: Japanese Art from the UOMA Collections"

•"Masami Teraoka: Web of Confession" ('99)

•"Transience: Chinese Experimental Art at the End of the Twentieth Century" ('99)

•"Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: China's Cultural Revolution" ('02)

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SELECTED AWARDS

•UO Research and Sponsored Programs Summer Research Grant (Summer, 2000)

• AAA Dean's International Travel Award (Summer, 1999)

• Freeman Faculty Fellow (1997)

• Office of International Affairs Faculty Development Grant (7/95 - 6/96)

• AAA Dean's Faculty Research and Creative Work Award (Summer, 1995)

• UO Research and Sponsored Programs Summer Research Grant (Summer, 1994)

• Oregon Humanities Center Research Fellowship (Winter, 1994)

• National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend (1991)

• Dartmouth College Faculty Fellowship (Spring, 1990)

• Asian Cultural Council Fellowship (Fall, 1988)

• CAA Millard Meiss Publication Fund Award (1987)

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Postdoctoral Fellow (85 - 86)

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SELECTED TALKS, PAPERS, ETC.

"The Nature of Song Painting,” Reed College Chinese Humanities seminar, March 2005

“Private Life in Late Imperial China: Objects, Images, and Texts” (panel respondent),
international conference held at the University of Oregon, October 2004

“Entertainment China: Ideology, Industry, Aesthetics” (panel chair), international
conference held at the University of Oregon, April, 2003

"Buddhist Art of East Asia” (respondent), 4th Workshop for Korean Curators, Ewha University,
Seoul, September 2002

“'Buddhist Art': Some Comments on the History of an Idea,” Murphy lecture series, University
of Kansas, February, 2002

"Tradition and Modernity in Contemporary guohua"; Contemporary Traditional Chinese
Painting in Context (symposium), Central Washington University, April 2001

"What is 'Chan Painting'?" Reed College Chinese Humanities seminar, February 2001

"Performing Sutras: An Art-historical Overview," International Association of Buddhist
Studies Annual Meeting, Lausanne, August 1999

"The Gathering at the Orchid Pavilion and its Legacy"; The Cultural Dimensions of a Chinese
Garden: Cosmology, Art and Society (symposium), Lewis and Clark College, April 1999

"A Brief History of the Chinese Artist"; Memory, Modernity, and the Millennium in
Contemporary Chinese Culture (symposium), University of British Columbia, April 1999

"The 'Monk-Painter' and the Representation of Enlightenment," Association for Asian
Studies Annual Meeting, Boston, March 1999

"The Place of Writing in East Asian Art," Asia Society Summer Institute, UO, July 1999

"Six Persimmons, or (Smells Like) Zen Spirirt," College Art Association Annual Meeting,
San Antonio, January 1995

"Eight Monks, Six Persimmons, and Two or Three Foregone Conclusions About Chan/Zen
Art," UO Humanities Center Faculty Work-In-Progress Series, December 1995

"Blindness and Oversight: Desultory Notes on a Portrait of Qianlong," American Oriental
Society, Western Branch, Portland, October 1994

"‘Liang Kai’ and the Scroll ‘Eight Eminent Monks’," Annual Meeting of the American
Oriental Society, Madison, March 1994

"The Burning Brush: The Rhetoric of Competition in the Chinese Artist's Biography,"
Annual Meeting of the American Oriental Society, Chapel Hill, April 1993

"Who Says the River is Wide? The 'Rushleaf Bodhidharma' Reconsidered," New England
East Asian Art History Seminar, Harvard University, May 1992

"From Icon to Narrative (and Back Again): The Evolution and Transformation of a Patriarchal
Paradigm," Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Wash. DC, April 1992

"The 'Image Made by Chance' in Medieval China," International Congress on Medieval
Studies, Kalamazoo, May 1991

"Niao-k'o Ch'an-shih and the (Ab)uses of Iconography," Association for Asian Studies
Annual Meeting, New Orleans, April 1991

"Gardens of the Mind," University Art Association of Canada Annual Meeting,
Montréal, October 1990

"The Question of Individualism in Later Chinese Painting," Dartmouth Faculty Seminar
series, April 1988

"'Creative Transformation' in Chinese Art Theory"; Poetics East & West (conference),
University of Toronto, June 1987

"Social Status and Evaluation in Some Early Chinese Texts on Painting," XXVIth International
Congress for the History of Art, Washington DC, August 1986

"Two Early Portraits of Bodhidharma," University of Victoria, February 1986

SELECTED PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS

“The Return of Asia,” Portland Art Museum Asian Council, September 2005

“Buddhist Cultural Identity in China,” UO Art History Association Symposium, May 2005

“Life After Death in Imperial China,” Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, March 2005

“Uncommon Treasures: Stories from the UO Museum and Library Collections,” February 2

"The Calligraphic Turn in Traditional Chinese Painting (and Some Modern Responses),"
Portland Art Museum Docents' Council, March 2003

“Cultural Revolution in Practice and Theory,” UOMA Teachers’ Workshop, October 2002

“Inscriptional Content in Context,” Portland Art Museum Docents' Council, April 2002

“Late Imperial Visual Culture,” Boise Art Museum, January 2002

"The Realm of Revelation," UOMA, February 2000

"A Virtual Tour of the UO Museum of Art," Central Oregon Community College, Oct 1998

"A CAT Scan for Mud Man," Portland Art Museum Scholar's Forum, March 1998

"The Legacy of Qianlong," UOMA, August 1997

"Korean Art in the Permanent Collection," UOMA, January 1997

"Korean Literati Painting," UOMA Docents' Group, December 1996

"M(a)US(ol)EUM: Art and Death in China," UOMA, August 1996

"Bronze, Clay, Stone: The Materials of Death in China," Kerns Art Center, July 1996

"Korean Art and Culture," Learning In Retirement program, July 1996

"New Art in China, Post-1989," UOMA Docents' Group, December 1995

"'Art' vs 'Ritual' in Bronze-Age China," UOMA Docents' Group, October 1994

"Paradise, Printing, and Proselytizing: The Spread of Buddhist Art in China," UOMA
Docents' Group, March 1993

"Nature and Culture in Chinese Landscape Art," New London Library Lecture Series,
November 1991

"Some Japanese Prints in the Hood Museum," Dartmouth College Japan Society, May 1991

"Representations of the Chinese Garden," University of Oregon, February 1991.

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SELECT GRADUATE STUDENT COMMITTEES

* = Primary Advisor

SVENSEID, KATRINA (M.A., 2005): "The Turkic Male Figure in Altaic Art"

*CHANG, SUSAN SU-CHEN (M.A., 2004) "A Flourishing Scene of Prosperity: A Study of the Scroll Qingming Shanghe Tu Attributed to Qiu Ying"

HEVEL, DEREK (M.A., 2004): "Grounded Modernism: Sigmar Polke's use of Fabric as a Foil for Modernism's Original Artist"

*CHOI, JONG DEOK (M.A., 2003): "The Meaning of Reconstruction in Historic Preservation: A Case Study of the Reconstruction of the Gyeongbok Palace"

CHO, INSOO (Ph.D., 2003, University of Kansas): "Images of Liu Haichan: The Formation and Transformation of a Daoist Immortal's Biography" (Outside Reader)

* LEE, OH MEE (M.A., 2002): "The Diamond Mountain Paintings of the University of Oregon Museum of Art: The Development of Diverging Styles of Depicting a Sacred Korean Site."

*WRIGHT, AMANDA (M.A., 2002): " A Little Knowledge is a Dangerous Thing: Gertrude Bass Warner, General Normann Munthe, and the Enigma of the UOMA Buddha."

*HILGENDORF, Nathan (M.A., 2002): "Qing Dynasty Glass in the UO Museum of Art."

ROWAN, JENNIFER (M.A., 2002): "Danger and Devotion: The Mother of Demons in the Stories and Stones of Gandhara, A Historiography and Catalogue of Images of n Early Buddhist Deity of Abundance."

KUCERA, KARIL (Ph.D., 2002, University of Kansas): "Cliff Notes: Text and Image at Baodingshan" (Outside Reader)

FORRLER, CARA (M.A., 2000): "The Japanese Kesa: A Patchwork of Meanings."

*GREENWOOD, KEVIN R. (M.A., 1999): "The Qianlong Emperor as the Bodhisattva Manjushri: Religion, Politics and Self-Conception in the Qianlong Period."

*COMBS, NICOLE (M.A., 1999): "Postmodernism, Globalization and the Connections to Contemporary Chinese Art"

PONTON, CLAUDIA (M.A., 1999): "Between Death and Life: Trauma in the Art of Yayoi Kasama."

*KUCERA, KARIL J. (M.A., 1995): “Lessons in Stone: Baodingshan and its Hell Imagery.”
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*TAN, CHRISTINE C.Y. (M.A., 1995): “The Jieziyuan Huazhuan, or “The Mustard Seed Garden Manual of Painting and Calligraphy,” and Late Ming Culture.”

*CLAYPOOL, LISA (M.A., 1994): "The Social Body: 'Beautiful Women' Imagery in Late Imperial China."

TSURUYA, MAYU (M.A., 1992): “Isamu Noguchi’s Cronos: Myth in the Atomic Age."

 

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SELECT PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

NEH Fellowships Review Panel, Art History and Archaeology section ('05)

Participant, Korea Foundation 6th Workshop for Curators of Korean Art (Archaeology), October 2004

CAA.Reviews, Field Editor (’04-’06)

Participant, Korea Foundation 5th Workshop for Curators of Korean Art (Korean Arts and Crafts), October 2003

Buchanan Prize selection committee (Association for Asian Studies) 2003

Participant, Korea Foundation 4th Workshop for Curators of Korean Art (Buddhist Art), September 2002

Oregon University System China Board Executive Committee (1997-2001)

Panel organizer: "New Approaches to East Asian Buddhist Art," Annual Meeting of the West
Coast branch of the Association for Asian Studies (ASPAC), Eugene, June 2000

NEH Fellowships Review Panel, Art History and Archaeology section, 2000

Consultant, Asia Society "Ask Asia" website development, 1999

Panel Organizer: "Re-Reading Chinese Art (History)," College Art Association Annual
Meeting, Toronto, February 1998

Symposium Organizer: "Collecting and Connoisseurship of Asian Art: The Legacy of Mrs.
Gertrude Bass Warner," September 1997

NEH Summer Fellowships Review Panel (1994, 1996)

Bunting Institute (Radcliffe College) Fellowship Reviewer (1991-1995)

Panel Organizer: "New Approaches to Chinese Art History"; American Oriental Society, Western Branch, Portland, October 1994

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