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Curriculum Vitae Kevin Chua Texas Tech University School of Art P 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
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