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Shiyu Gao
Gao Shiyu is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Edinburgh. Her research focuses on the body, ecology, new media and technology in modern/contemporary East Asian art and visual culture. She worked as a curator for international museums and galleries, including Stills Gallery (Edinburgh), CAFA Art Museum (Beijing) and the National Art Museum of China (Beijing). Her recent publications include ‘Reshaping posthuman subjectivity: Lu Yang’s representation of virtual bodies in the COVID-19 pandemic’ and ‘Body as landscape: Body representation in contemporary Chinese art’. She participated and chaired in various international academic conferences, including the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts (CCVA) 13th Annual Conference 2020: The World, Two Metres Away, the Christie’s Education Conference 2020: The Chinese Art Market, the 22nd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies in 2018 and the 34th CIHA World Congress of Art History by the Comité International d’Histoire de l’Art (CIHA) in 2016.
Contact: Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh, 74 Lauriston Place, Edinburgh, EH3 9DF, UK.