高清福利片

Chau Chak Wing Museum

false

50%

Shuxia Chen

Curator, China Gallery

m-hero--simple

false

BBA (Hons) MVA (Hons) MA PhD聽ANU

Shuxia has worked in museums and art spaces for over a decade. She joined the Chau Chak Wing Museum as its inaugural curator for the China Gallery in 2019. She holds a PhD from the Australian National University, an MA in Art History from the University of Sydney, and an MA in Studio Art (Honours) from Sydney College of the Arts.

She has been curating, publishing and teaching Asian art nationally and internationally. Her current curatorial projects include: 鈥淐hinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature鈥 (Sydney, 2023-2024), 鈥淪entient Paper鈥 (Sydney, 2021-2022), 鈥淲ayfaring: Photography in 1970s and 80s Taiwan鈥 (Canberra, 2021), and 鈥淎uspicious: Motifs in Chinese Art鈥 (Sydney, 2020-2021).

Shuxia is currently working on three book projects:听Wayfaring: Photography in 1970s and 80s Taiwan聽(co-edited volume, Canberra: ANU Press, 2024),听Chinese Toggles: Culture in Miniature聽(co-edited volume, Sydney: Power Publications, 2023),聽A Home for Photography Learning: the Friday Salon, 1977-1980聽(edited volume, Shanghai Fine Art Publishing House, 2023).

She is the recipient of The聽Robert聽H. N.聽Ho Greater China Research聽Grant聽(2014-2015) and China Professional Placements, Australia Council for the Arts (2020). Currently, she is the David Scott Mitchell Memorial Fellow (2022-2023), investigating the role women played in Sino-Australian relations during the Sino-Japanese war.

Shuxia is also a lecturer, curator and cultural leader at UNSW鈥檚 Art&Design.

Research interests

  • Cultural networks in Asian art
  • Chinese photography
  • Artist groups in Asia
  • Socialist and post-socialist visual culture
  • Curatorial practice in Asia
  • Exhibition history

Shuxia Chen

50

automatic

Link

Email:听shuxia.chen@sydney.edu.au

  • Humanities Travelling Fellowship, Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2020
  • China Professional Placement, Australia Council for the Arts, 2020
  • Visiting Scholar, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan, 2017
  • PhD Scholarship, Australian Centre on China in the World, 2014
  • Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Greater China Research 2014
  • Travel Grant, Asian Art Archive, Hong Kong, 2013
  • Community Grant for exhibition聽Make Yourself At Home, City of Sydney, 2012
  • Travel sponsorship, China Studies Centre, the University of Sydney, 2011

2021

  • 颁耻谤补迟辞谤,听Sentient Paper,听Chau Chak Wing Museum, The University of Sydney.

2020

2018

  • 颁耻谤补迟辞谤,听A Home for Photography Learning: the Friday Salon, 1977-1980, Taikang Space, Beijing, China (touring to University Museum and Art Gallery, the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 2021)

2012

  • 颁耻谤补迟辞谤,听Make Yourself at Home, ChinaLink Gallery, Sydney
  • 颁耻谤补迟辞谤,听Shen Jiawei: Brothers and Sisters, China 高清福利片 Centre/ Seymour Centre, University of Sydney, Sydney

2008

  • Exhibition Manager,听Song Dong, Zendai Museum of Modern Art (now Himalayas Art Centre), Shanghai

2007

  • Exhibition Manager,听Soft Power: Asian Attitude, Zendai Museum of Modern Art (now Himalayas Art Centre), Shanghai
  • Assistant 颁耻谤补迟辞谤,听Refresh: Emerging Chinese Artist, Zendai Museum of Modern Art (now Himalayas Art Centre), Shanghai
  • Exhibition Manager,听Ribbenrtop鈥檚 Living Room: Stephan Kaluza Solo Exhibition, Zendai Museum of Modern Art (now Himalayas Art Centre), Shanghai
  • Exhibition Manager,听Julian Schnabel, Zendai Museum of Modern Art (now Himalayas Art Centre), Shanghai
  • Exhibition Manager,听The No Name: A History of a Self-Exiled Avant-Garde, Zendai Museum of Modern Art (now Himalayas Art Centre), Shanghai

Co-authored Books

  • Chen, Shuxia. (2020).聽A Home for Photography Learning: the Friday Salon, 1977-1980. Shuxia Chen (ed.), Shanghai: Shanghai Literature and Art Publication House.

Chapters

  • Chen, Shuxia. (2020). 鈥楶hotographs of the Stars鈥. In Wu Hung and Holly Roussell (eds.)聽40 Years Ago: The Stars in 1979. Hong Kong: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press.
  • Chen, Shuxia. (2018). 鈥楻en Hang: Bodies Without Redemption鈥.聽Made In China Year Book 2017. Canberra: ANU Press.
  • Chen, Shuxia. (2016). 鈥楢uthentically Socialist: a window on a Communist utopia鈥. In聽PLA Picture Pub: Long Live the Glorious 鈥楳ay Seventh Directive. New York: Errata Editions.
  • Chen, Shuxia. (2016). 鈥楲ooking Backward: Chinese Art in 2014鈥.聽China Story Year Book 2014. Canberra: ANU Press.

Peer-reviewed Journal essays

  • Chen, Shuxia. (2019). 鈥楢 Home for Photography Learning: the Friday Salon, 1977-1980鈥.聽Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, No. 3: 79-92.
  • Chen, Shuxia (co-author with Shi Zhimin and Zhou Dengyan). (2019). 鈥楶hotographic Praxis in China, 1930s-1980s: A conversation with Chen Shuxia, Shi Zhimin, and Zhou Dengyan about Shi Shaohua and the Friday Salon鈥.聽Trans Asia Photography Review,听狈辞.2.
  • Chen, Shuxia. (2017). 鈥楧eparting from Socialist Realism: the April Photo Society, 1979-1981鈥.聽Trans Asia Photography Review, Vol. 8, No.1.
  • Chen, Shuxia. (2015). 鈥楳anipulation as Art: Photographs by Xu Zhuo, 1979鈥1981鈥.聽Trans Asia Photography Review, Vol. 6, No.1.
  • Chen, Shuxia. 鈥楽haping a photographic art image鈥, translation from Wu Yinxian鈥檚 book Methods on photographic art expression (Beijing: Beijing Film Press, 1961, pp.11-16).聽Trans Asia Photography Review, Vol. 4, No.2.

Selected Magazine, Online and Catalogue essays

  • Chen, Shuxia. (2010). 鈥榃ang Jianwei: the Great Politics of Human Interaction鈥.聽Realtime, Sydney.
  • Chen, Shuxia. (2010). 鈥楾he 17th Biennale of Sydney鈥.聽ArtForum.com.cn.
  • Chen, Shuxia. (2010). 鈥楨dge of Elsewhere鈥.聽ArtForum.com.cn.
  • Chen, Shuxia. (2008). 鈥楻oland Fischer鈥.聽ArtForum.com.cn.
  • Chen, Shuxia. (2008). 鈥楯ulian Schnabel鈥. ArtForum.com.cn.
  • Chen, Shuxia. (2007). 鈥極ne dialogue, one platform鈥. In聽Soft Power: Asian Attitude. Hunan: Hunan Fine Art Publishing House.