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Chu-Chiun Wei
Chu-Chiun Wei is a doctoral candidate in art history at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her research interests focus on cross-cultural issues, identity politics, and globalization in contemporary art. She is currently working on her dissertation ‘Globalism and Identity in Taiwanese Contemporary Art, 1978–2009’. Her article entitled ‘From National Art to Critical Globalism: Politics and Curatorial Strategies of the Taiwan Pavilion at the Venice Biennale’ was published in Third Text in 2013. She has presented papers on a wide range of topics, including post-World-War-II German photography, body and performance art and Taiwanese contemporary art at academic conferences in various locations in the United States, the United Kingdom and Taiwan. She is trained both in art history and anthropology, hence she is interested in many forms of material and visual culture. She graduated from University of Chicago with a M.A. in Social Sciences with an emphasis on cultural anthropology, and from University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with a M.A. in Art History. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology from National Taiwan University. In the past, she has worked in curatorial and educational positions in the Guggenheim Museum in New York and the Cooper Gallery of the University of Dundee in Scotland.