On February 15, PhD Candidate Yifan Li presented a paper entitled “Staging Chinese Visual Modernity: Zhang Shuqi’s Painting Demonstrations in the United States, 1941–1946” at the College Art Association Annual Conference in New York. He also served as the co-chair of his panel “Transpacific Migration: Artistic Encounters between China and the Americas in the Long Twentieth Century.”

While in New York, Yifan explored exhibitions at MET, MoMA, Guggenheim, and Asia Society. Accompanied by Professors Judy Andrews and Kuiyi Shen and PhD alumnae Yang Wang (2015) and Gillian Zhang (2022), Yifan was excited to join Professor Wen-shing Chou (Hunter College) for a curatorial walkthrough of her co-curated exhibit C. C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction in the Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Gallery.

Yifan’s trip was generously supported by a Sara Jane Pyne Memorial Scholarship and an Arts and Humanities Graduate Research Small Grant.