Education
Ph.D in Art History, Kyoto University
Experience
Former Chair of the Department of Fine Arts, NTNU
President of Taiwan Art History Assocation
Director of Taiwan Art History Research Center, NTNU
Recent curations include:
Painted Identiting of Homeland, Chiayi Art Museum, 2023
Poetic Rhythm, Transformation,Esoteric Omens：Chen Ting-Shih 110th Birthday Memorial Exhibition, Taichung Art Museum, 2022
Canon and Difference: Shift in Societies in the Exhibition of Four Yilan Artists, Yilan Art Museum, 2022
Hsiao Chin at 85: An Exhibition of Transcendent Art, Kaohsiung Art Museum, 2020
Migration: In search of re-habitat and material memory, Taitung Art Museum, 2019
Melody of Life: Memorial Exhibition of Li Shih-chiao, New Taipei Cultural Center, 2019
The Glory of Tainan: Open Exhibition of Tainan Art Museum, Tainan Art Museum, 2018
Moving, Flowing, Transmitting: Exhibition on Contemporary Calligraphy, Yilan Art Museum, 2018
The Eye of the Artist: Li Mei-Shu Special Exhibition, New Taipei Cultural Center, 2017
Dreaming of Homeland: Wu Hsueh-jang 95th Memorial Exhibition, National Sun Yet-san Memorial Hall, 2017
Description
Professor Pai Shih-ming is a prominent Taiwanese art historian, art critic, and curator. His primary research areas include: (1) Taiwanese art history, (2) contemporary curatorial practice and criticism, (3) Chinese art history, and (4) cross-cultural exchange between East and West. In addition to his teaching responsibilities at the university level, he has held leadership roles in university art museums and research centers. He is frequently invited by municipal art museums, national museums, cultural centers, gallery associations, and private galleries across Taiwan to curate exhibitions, lead research projects, and contribute art criticism to major newspapers and magazines.
Professor Pai has nearly two decades of curatorial experience, with a wide-ranging and diverse portfolio. His curatorial themes encompass the art, sculpture, and photography histories of modern and contemporary Taiwan, particularly from the postwar period through the martial law era. He has also worked extensively on regional artistic exchanges between Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia. His curatorial approach engages with both broad cultural phenomena and focused case studies of individual artists.
Theoretically, his work draws from iconography, visual psychology, postcolonial discourse, visual culture studies, and cultural geography, examining critical academic topics such as modernity, cosmopolitanism, national identity, subjectivity, the performing body and gender, cultural flows, cross-border perspectives, and urban communities.
