高千惠KAO Chien-hui
Modern and contemporary art and cultural critic and researcher
Expertise
Modern art history, sociology of art, cultural criticism, creative theory and practice, art criticism and ideological trends, modern and contemporary East Asian art, development of ink painting, research on visual culture and material culture
Education
M.A. in Liberal Arts, University of Chicago Graham School
Experience
Visiting Professor, Doctoral Program in Art Creation and Theory, Tainan National University of the Arts
Visiting Professor, Department of Sculpture Graduate Program, National Taiwan University of Arts
Assistant Professor, Graduate Institute of Transdisciplinary Art, National Kaohsiung Normal University
Visiting Scholar, Hong Kong Baptist University
Curator of the 50th Venice Biennial Taiwan Pavilion
Select Publication
Curatorial Art, Editors: Janet Marstine and Oscar Ho, Routledge Books, UK, 2021 (Selected Essay).
Out of Bounds—Poetic Vision of Living World in Ink Art: Time Traveling within the Images of Consciousness, Matter, Culture and Politics (出界－水墨空間的人間詩學). Taipei: ARTouch, October 2020.
The Production Line of Contemporary Art: Cases of Creative Practice and Social Engagement (當代藝術生產線－創作實踐與社會介入的案例). Taopei: ARTouch, 2019.
Unsilent Words: Text and Its Productive Context of Art Criticism (不沉默的字－藝評書寫與其生產語境). Taipei: ARTouch, 2018.
Beyond Interpretation: Society of Art Criticism and the Modern Avant-garde Movement (詮釋之外－藝評社會與近當代前衛運動). Taipei: ARTouch, 2017.
Kao Chien-hui is an Art instructor, arts and culture writer, and guest curator. She is also the Academic consultant of Asia Art Archive. Kao has written over 10 books, including Art Concept and Its Discontents, Transpassing: Special Studies on Contemporary Asia Art in 2010s, Biennale Fever—The Alternative Voice of Politics, Aesthetics and Institutes, Rebellion in Silhouette: The New Myth on Contemporary Artists, and After Origin: Topic on Contemporary Chinese Art in New Age. Major exhibitions that she has curated include "Once Upon A Time—Unfinished Progressive Past," "Keelung Ciao: Ask the Way" in 2018, "Com(ic)media on Line: The 7th International Ink Painting Biennale of Shenzhen," "Scent of a Woman: the Collection of Female Subject in Taiwan," "Trading Place: Contemporary Art Museum," and "Activity Factor: The 50th Venice Biennial Taiwan Pavilion."