Keyu Yan is a doctoral candidate specializing in the history of modern and contemporary Chinese art and visual culture. Additionally, he is interested in issues related to the representations of gender and sexuality in the global Sinophone world. His dissertation asks how the notion of art was radically expanded in China in the 1980s and 1990s through the lens of installation art. His publications have appeared in East Asian Publishing and Society, Burlington Contemporary, World Art, ASAP/J, and InVisible Culture.