Wen-shing Chou

Wen-shing Chou is Associate Professor of Art History at Hunter College/CUNY and the CUNY Graduate Center. She specializes in art of China and Inner Asia. Her book, Mount Wutai: Visions of a Sacred Buddhist Mountain (Princeton University Press, 2018), won Honorable Mention for the Joseph Levenson Prize (China Pre-1900) from the Association for Asian Studies. Chou is a member of the advisory council at the Rubin Museum of Art, where she also served as an advisory member of Project Himalayan Art and contributed to the newly published Himalayan Art in 108 Objects. Chou recently co-edited and co-curated C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction (Hirmer Verlag, 2023) on the artistic experimentations of twentieth century’s preeminent connoisseur and collector of Chinese art. Chou’s current book project, Shaping Time: Art of Rebirth in China and Inner Asia, explores the visual and material culture of reincarnation within the Gelukpa sphere of influence from the seventeenth to the twentieth century.

C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction

March 20, 2024November 17, 2023 By Wen-shing Chou and Margaret Liu Clinton

C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction recenters Wang’s extraordinary career in his own artistic practice to reveal an original quest for tradition and innovation in the global twentieth century. Spanning seven decades, the catalog focuses on the artist’s distinctive synthesis of Chinese ink painting and American postwar abstraction.