Curriculum Vitae Kevin Chua
Texas Tech University School of Art P. O. Box 42081 Lubbock, TX 79409 USA 1(806) 742-3825 x 237 [email protected]
Updated April 2018
Employment
August 2012- Associate Professor of 18th- and 19th- Century European Art present and Southeast Asian Art, Texas Tech University
September 2006- Assistant Professor of 18th- and 19th- Century European Art May 2012 and Contemporary Asian Art, Texas Tech University
Education
1997-2005 University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, USA Ph.D. in Art History, filed September 2005, Dissertation: “Sentimental Affliction: Jean-Baptiste Greuze and the Waning of Sensibility, 1761-69” directed by Darcy G. Grigsby and T. J. Clark
1992-1996 Bachelor of Arts in Art History and Economics, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL
Fellowships and Grants
Summer 2017 Dean’s Advancing Creative Scholarship Award, Texas Tech University
Summer 2013 Creative Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences Grant, Texas Tech University (competitive; $10,000)
2010-2012 International travel grants, College of Visual and Performing Arts, Texas Tech University
2006-2008 President’s Humanities Research Fellowship, Texas Tech University
2005-2006 Ahmanson-Getty Post-Doctoral Fellow, Center for 17th and 18th- Century Studies, UCLA
2004-2005 Chancellor’s Dissertation Finishing Fellowship, U. C. Berkeley
2001-2003 Samuel H. Kress Pre-Doctoral Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1997-2001 Various departmental and university grants Publications
A selection of my publications can be found at: https://ttu.academia.edu/KevinChua
Forthcoming 2018 “Archive as Figure in Contemporary Singapore Art,” for Art Journal, special issue edited by Karin Zitzewitz and Nora Taylor (accepted; 6000 words)
April 2018 Review of Between Worlds: Raden Saleh and Juan Luna, exhibition at the National Gallery Singapore, Artforum (1500 words)
April 2018 “Courbet after Sudjojono,” Art History (12,000 words)
November 2017 Review of Zhuang Wubin, Photography in Southeast Asia: A Survey (NUS Press, 2016), for History of Photography, Taylor & Francis, vol. 41, Issue 4 (1500 words)
October 2017 “Crownless Power, or the Global Domestic,” essay on Ho Tzu Nyen and Ho Rui An for Speilart Magazine, Munich, Germany (2500 words)
September 2017 “The Uncommitted Life,” catalogue essay for Ghost Screen, exhibition by Guo-Liang Tan at Ota Fine Arts, Singapore (2000 words)
May 2017 “When was Modernism? A Historiography of Singapore Art,” Charting Thoughts: Essays on Art in Southeast Asia, National Gallery Singapore (7000 words)
April 2017 Excerpt of “The Tiger and the Theodolite: George Coleman’s Dream of Extinction” (reprint), in 2 or 3 Tigers online publication, http://hkw.de/de/tigers_publication/, eds. Anselm Franke and Hyunjin Kim, Haus der Kulteren der Welt, Berlin
February 2017 “What We Talk About, When We Talk About Projection” (review of Jill H. Casid, Scenes of Projection: Recasting the Enlightenment Subject), nonsite.org 20, Winter 2017 (3000 words)
January 2017 “Native Revisions: Chua Chye Teck, Noh Suntag, Anup Mathew Thomas, Tomoko Yoneda” at Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Preview section, Artforum (150 words)
December 2016 “The Curatorial as Buoy and Beacon,” in SouthEastAsia: Spaces of the Curatorial, eds. Ute Meta Bauer and Brigitte Oetker, Sternberg Press, Berlin, Germany (6000 words)
September 2016 Excerpt of “The Tiger and the Theodolite: George Coleman’s Dream of Extinction” (reprint), in Animals (Whitechapel: Documents in Contemporary Art), ed. Filipa Ramos, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Mass.
August 2016 “In Venetian Waters: Singapore at the 49th Venice Biennale” (reprint), Histories, Practices, Interventions: A Reader in Singapore Contemporary Art, eds. Jeffrey Say and Seng Yu Jin, Singapore: LASALLE College of the Arts (1500 words)
July 2015 “The Sejahat Buoy: Notes on a Disappearance,” catalog essay for Charles Lim, Singapore Pavilion, Venice Biennale 2015, 56th edition
January 2015 “Jeremy Sharma, or the Pulsations of Time,” catalog essay, in Mind the Gap: Mapping the Other, National Library Board, Singapore
December 2014 Review of “Painting in Singapore,” exhibition at Equator Art Projects, Singapore, 2 August – 8 September 2013, Journal of Contemporary Painting
December 2014 “Sedlmayr’s Rococo,” in Rococo Echo: Art, Theory and Historiography, edited by Katie Scott and Melissa Hyde, Studies on Voltaire and the Eighteenth Century (7000 words)
March/April 2014 “On Exhibiting Modern Asian Art in Southeast Asia,” Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art (6500 words)
March 2014 “Jamesonian Affect, or the Lower Depths” (forum on Fredric Jameson’s Antinomies of Realism), nonsite.org 11 (3000 words)
April 2013 "The Teak of Neoliberalism," catalogue essay for Jalan Jati, a project by The Migrant Ecologies Project, Singapore (12,000 words)
January 2013 “In the Shadow of David’s Brutus,” Representations, vol. 121 (9000 words)
July 2012 “Girodet and the Eternal Sleep,” in Vital Matters, edited by Helen Deutsch and Mary Terrall, University of Toronto Press (11,000 words)
April 2012 “Picasso and the Vital Order” (review of Christopher Green, Life and Death in Picasso, Thames & Hudson, 2009), nonsite.org (2000 words)
December 2011 “Arcadian Tomb, Silently Speaking,” in We Who Saw Signs, exhibition catalogue for the Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore (3000 words)
August 2011 “On Teaching Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art,” Third Text, vol. 25, no. 4, 467-73, special issue on Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian art, edited by Joan Kee (4000 words)
December 2010 “Donna Ong’s Coral Realism,” Broadsheet, Australia (4000 words)
December 2009 “Public Intimacy, or the Discipline of Affect in China,” in Journal of Korean Modern and Contemporary Art History (9000 words)
June 2009 “Of Boxes Unfolded and Houses Unfound” (on Sang-Mi Yoo’s installations), in Afterimage: Solo Exhibition by Sang-Mi Yoo, Moonshin Museum Bit Gallery, Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, Korea (2500 words)
August 2007 “The Tiger and the Theodolite: George Coleman’s Dream of Extinction,” FOCAS: Forum on Contemporary Art and Society 6, Singapore (republished in Broadsheet, vol. 36, no. 2; 9000 words)
June 2007 “Ho Tzu Nyen’s Criminal Tableaux,” catalogue essay for Ho Tzu Nyen: Bohemian Rhapsody Project, 4x4 Episodes of Singapore Art, 1 June - 8 July 2007, Contemporary Art Centre of South Australia (4000 words)
June 2007 “Dead Birds, or the Miseducation of the Greuze Girl,” in Performing the Everyday: The Culture of Genre in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Alden Cavanaugh, University of Delaware Press (8000 words)
April 2007 “Painting Paralysis: Filial Piety in 1763,” in French Genre Painting in the Eighteenth Century, ed. Philip Conisbee, Studies in the History of Art 72, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, Washington: National Gallery of Art, distributed by Yale University Press (alongside Thomas Crow, Michael Fried, Susan L. Siegfried, Joan E. DeJean, Ewa Lajer-Burcharth, Philippe Bordes; 9000 words)
January 2007 “Painting the Nanyang’s Public: Notes toward a Reassessment,” in Eye of the Beholder: Reception, Audience, and Practice of Modern Asian Art, ed. John Clark, Maurizio Peleggi, T. K. Sabapathy, Sydney: Wild Peony Press, distributed by University of Hawaii Press (9000 words)
Summer 2006 “World’s Largest T-Square,” Review of Wu Hung, Remaking Beijing: Tiananmen Square and the Creation of a Political Space, Art Journal (1500 words)
Fall 2003 “The Natural History of the Brand,” FOCAS: Forum on Contemporary Art and Society 5, Singapore (republished in Broadsheet, vol. 33, no. 1; 8000 words)
Winter 2002 “Simryn Gill and Migration’s Capital,” Art Journal (6000 words)
Fall 2001 “In Venetian Waters: Singapore at the 49th Venice Biennale,” FOCAS: Forum on Contemporary Art and Society 3, Singapore (1500 words)
Conference Participation and Invited Talks
January 2018 “Juan Luna’s Revolution,” lecture at the National University of Singapore, hosted by Priya Maholay-Jaradi
January 2018 “Why Impressionism (Still) Matters,” lecture in conjunction with the Colors of Impressionism exhibition at the National Gallery Singapore
November 2017 “Juan Luna’s Revolution,” lecture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, hosted by Nora Taylor
April 2017 Conversation with Ho Tzu Nyen and Shabbir Hussain Mustafa, 2 or 3 Tigers Program, Haus der Kulteren der Welt, Berlin
April 2017 “Archive as Figure in Contemporary Singapore Art,” guest lecture hosted by Wulan Dirgantoro at Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin
June 2016 “Courbet after Sudjojono,” guest lecture hosted by Pamela Corey, School of Oriental and African Studies, London
May 2016 “Exhibitional Form at the National Gallery Singapore,” guest lecture hosted by Lucy Steeds, Central Saint Martin’s, London
April 2016 “When Form Begins (On the National Gallery Singapore),” UC Berkeley Southeast Asian Studies Conference, Berkeley, CA
March 2016 “Non-Human Abstraction,” lecture organized by Tan Guo Liang, NTU Center for Contemporary Art Singapore, Singapore
January 2016 “When Form Begins (On Ho Tzu Nyen and Charles Lim),” guest lecture, LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore
July 2015 “Contemporary Art in Singapore and the Question of the Archive,” panel “Collect, Produce, Display, Know: The Archive in Contemporary Art of South and Southeast Asia,” chaired by Karin Zitzewitz, International Conventional of Asian Scholars (ICAS) Conference 9, Adelaide, Australia
March 2015 “On the Balinese Origins of Gregory Bateson’s ‘Plateau,’” guest lecture, History of Art department, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
February 2015 “Courbet after Sudjojono,” panel “What is Realism?” chaired by Elizabeth C. Mansfield, College Art Association 103rd Annual Conference, New York, NY
August 2014 “On the Balinese Origins of Gregory Bateson’s ‘Plateau,’” Nature as Practice in Southeast Asia, symposium organized by Lucy Davis, NUS Museum, Singapore
March 2014 “Colonialism after Globalization,” guest speaker for “Colonialism, Orientalism, Primitivism: 19th-century European Encounters with India and ‘The East’”, graduate seminar taught by Nora Taylor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
March 2014 “Children’s Scientific Literature and the Cybernetic Example,” panel “Regimes of Visuality: Technologies of Vision,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, Williamsburg, VA
February 2014 Chair, “After the Secular: Art and Religion in the 18th century,” Historians for the Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture sponspored panel for the College Art Association 102nd Annual Conference, Chicago, IL
October 2013 “On Exhibiting Modern Asian Art in Southeast Asia,” Sites of Construction: Exhibitions and the Making of Recent Art History in Asia, Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
April 2013 Chair, “Landscape and Economy,” panel for the 39th annual Association of Art Historians Conference, Reading, United Kingdom
April 2012 Workshop Respondent, "Impossible Purities: Modern East Asian Art and the Question of Artistic Medium," organized by Joan Kee and Chelsea Foxwell, University of Chicago, IL
March 2012 “Fuseli and Gothic Preformation,” panel “The Medical Gothic,” American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Conference, San Antonio, TX
February 2012 Chair, Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture New Scholars Panel, College Art Association 100th Annual Conference, Los Angeles, CA
May 2011 “Chardin’s Leibnizian Unconscious,” 10th Annual Bloomington Eighteenth- Century Studies Workshop, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
March 2011 “Mediating Hysteria in France, c. 1780,” panel “The Gendering of Disease: Real and Fictional Manifestations in France and England – Part II,” 37th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern American Society for Eighteenth- Century Studies, “Science and the Arts in the Long Eighteenth Century,” Winston-Salem, NC
February 2011 “Macartney’s Globe, or Cartographic Refusal in 1793,” panel “The Global Eighteenth Century,” College Art Association 99th Annual Conference, New York, New York
March 2010 Panel Respondent, “Rethinking ‘Influences’ of Modern Art in Korea: Beyond Colonial Discourses” panel, Association for Asian Studies Conference, Philadelphia, PA
November 2009 “Haacke’s Luhmann: Rethinking Shapolsky, et. al.,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference, theme: Decodings, Atlanta, GA
June 2009 “Public Intimacy, or the Discipline of Affect in China,” International Symposium of the Association of Korean Modern and Contemporary Art History (“Art and Its Public”), Seoul, South Korea
November 2008 “Jacques-Louis David and the Iterability of the Law,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference, theme: Iterability, Charlotte, NC
February 2008 “Rewinding Fried’s Absorption and Theatricality,” panel “Critical Influences: the 18th century, the 1980s, and a Generation of Scholarship,” College Art Association 96th Annual Conference, Dallas-Fort Worth
November 2007 “Gros and the Napoleonic Code of War,” Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts Conference, theme: Code, Portland, Maine
May 2006 “Girodet and the Eternal Sleep,” Vital Matters 4: Borders of the Animate, Clark Library, UCLA, Los Angeles
May 2005 “Wu Hung’s Transience, or the Domestication of Failure in the 1990s,” Claims to Authority: Workshop on Modern and Contemporary Art in East Asia, Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, New York
March 2005 “Dead Birds, or the Miseducation of the Greuze Girl,” panel “Humanity and Animality,” 36th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Las Vegas, NV
December 2003 “Painting Paralysis: Filial Piety in 1763,” French Genre Painting in the Eighteenth Century Symposium, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D. C.
Teaching Experience (recent only)
Fall 2016 “Psychoanalysis across the Arts” College of Visual and Performing Arts graduate seminar), co-taught with Dr. Heather Warren-Crow, Texas Tech University
Spring 2015 “Global Pacific: Art and Visual Culture across Southeast Asia, 1700-1900” (upper-level undergraduate lecture), Texas Tech University
Spring 2013 “The Contemporary Art World” (College of Visual and Performing Arts graduate seminar, for students in Theater and Music), Texas Tech University
Fall 2012 “The Medial Enlightenment 1700-1900” (graduate seminar), Texas Tech University
Fall 2010, “Theories and Methods in Art History” (graduate seminar on art-historical Fall 2012 & methodology), Texas Tech University Fall 2015
Spring 2012 “Art and Science 1700-1900” (upper-level undergraduate seminar), Texas Tech University
Summer 2010 “Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Art” (upper-level undergraduate lecture), co-taught with Tony Godfrey, Sotheby’s Institute Singapore
Fall 2009 “The French Revolution and the Birth of Modernity” (upper-level undergraduate lecture), Texas Tech University
Spring 2009 “Conceptualism and the End of Time” (graduate seminar), co-taught with Christie Blizard, MFA, Texas Tech University
Spring 2009 “Prehistories of Posthumanism 1800/2000” (graduate seminar), Texas Tech University
Spring 2008 “Art and Globalization 1980-2000” (graduate seminar), Texas Tech University
Spring 2008 “Theory for MFAs and PhDs” (graduate seminar on critical theory), Texas Tech University
Fall 2007, “Picturing Empire: Art of the United States 1700-1950” Fall 2010, (upper-level undergraduate lecture), Texas Tech University Spring 2016
Spring 2007, “Spectacle and Modernity: Art in France and England 1851-1914” Spring 2011, (upper-level undergraduate lecture), Texas Tech University Spring 2014 Fall 2017
Fall 2006, “Black Atlantic: Art and Global Empire 1650-1850” (upper-level Fall 2008, undergraduate lecture), Texas Tech University Fall 2011, Spring 2017
Fall 2006 “Survey II: Renaissance to Modern Art” (lower-level - present undergraduate lecture), Texas Tech University
Other service and participation
Associate Director of External Relations, School of Art, Texas Tech University (2014-2017) Board member, Humanities Center, Texas Tech University (January 2017-) Land Arts of the American West advisory board member Submission reviewer for Archives of Asian Art, Sojourn, ARTMargins, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Art Journal, Art History
Membership
College Art Association American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Historians of Eighteenth-Century Art and Architecture Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts International Association for Art Critics (AICA), Singapore branch
Languages
English, French, German (reading ability), Chinese (reading ability)