Education

Ph.D. University of Kansas

Experience

An-yi Pan’s primary research focus is Chinese art, particularly Chinese Buddhist art and Taiwanese art. In recent years, An-yi Pan has been curating exhibitions and writing about Taiwanese art. He is also a Council member of the Taiwanese Art Association, and Advisory Board member of Art Taiwan magazine published by the National Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan.

His recent curated exhibitions include:

Transcending Fragments: Fong Chung-Ray’s Artistic Journey, Asian Art Center, Taipei, 2022

Tong Yang-tze: Immortal at the River, Herbert F. Johnson Museum, 2020

Power, Haunting, and Resilience: Contemporary Art from Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum and Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2017

Boundaries: Contemporary Art from Taiwan, National Museum of Fine Arts in Taiwan and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, 2014

Description

An-yi Pan is a professor in the Department of the History of Art and Visual Studies at Cornell University. His research focuses on Buddhist art as well as modern and contemporary East Asian art history. In 2004, he curated "The Era of Correct Speech: Contemporary Taiwanese Art" at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell. He later curated "Boundary: Contemporary Taiwanese Art" in 2014, and in 2017, co-curated "Disruptive Memories: Fractured Nations" in collaboration with the Taipei Fine Arts Museum.

In recent years, he has actively collaborated with universities and museums to promote modern Taiwanese art, including partnerships with Harvard University, UCLA, the National Gallery Singapore, the University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong, the Tainan Art Museum, and the National Museum of History (Taiwan).