Area of study: Modern and Contemporary Chinese Art

Keyu Yan is a doctoral candidate with research interests in gender, sexuality, and Sino-foreign interactions in Chinese art as well as the history of Chinese art history. His work has been presented at venues such as the Historical Society for Twentieth-Century China, Mellon Chinese Object Study Workshop, and Midwest Art History Society. His peer-reviewed article, “Modernizing Sculpture: Print Culture and the New Discourse on Sculpture in China, Circa 1880-1929,” which focuses on early twentieth-century Chinese sculpture, printed materials, and intellectual history is forthcoming in East Asian Publishing and Society (Brill). Currently, he is working on his dissertation, which probes the intersection of time and space in Chinese installation art from the 1980s to 1990s.