New York City Metropolitan Area
Shing-Kwan Chan is a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University specializing in Chinese art from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries. Supported by the PhD IMPAC Award and the Donald and Mary Hyde Fellowship, he is a Visiting Researcher at the CUHK Art Museum in Fall 2025. His dissertation examines imageries of natural subjects in nineteenth-century Guangdong, exploring intersections of art, natural history, and Sino-Western exchange. He has presented his research at various conferences and institutions, while his writings have appeared in Museum History Journal, Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, and Orientations. Shing-Kwan holds a B.A. (Hons.) from the University of Hong Kong and a master’s degree from the University of Oxford.
• Curated two on-site exhibitions: (1) Painting across the Threshold: Ng Lung Wai; (2) Glazed and Fired: Celadon Ceramics from the UMAG Collection, as well as 2 virtual exhibitions to complement the on-site shows. • Spearheaded and implemented UMAG_STArts — an interactive museum learning museum education initiative that explores the symbiotic relationship between science, technology, and the arts. • Co-curated “Eileen Chang at the University of Hong Kong: Historic Images and Documents from the Archives,” an on-site exhibition which highlights the beginning of an extraordinary literary career and celebrates Chang’s connection with HKU. • Assisted in the acquisition, design, registration, and interpretation of exhibits. • Initiated and built a new feature filtering search engine for the museum website. • Assisted in maintaining the museum collection and database.
• Taught and designed the curriculum of two in-person courses, “Contemporary Art in a Global Perspective: 1945 to the Present” and “Introduction to Iconography” in 2019. Planned additional courses for 2020, though these were cancelled due to the pandemic. • Received a perfect 5/5 rating in student reviews for “Contemporary Art in a Global Perspective: 1945 to the Present.”